DHAKA: Indictment hearing in a graft case against former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar will be held on September 12, as a Dhaka court Monday set the date.Special Judge Nasiruddin Mahmud of the special court No-5 of Dhaka set the date, when the maverick former minister

DHAKA: Police picked up 11 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir from the city’s Jatrabari area early Monday when they were pasting posters with demand for “immediate” release of the arrested three top Jamaat leaders. Police said they were pasting posters in different areas of the

DHAKA:  Speaker Abdul Hamid Advocate on Monday assured the BNP lawmakers of government permission for sending lawmaker Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee abroad for better treatment.The speaker gave the assurance while an 18-member parliamentary delegation of BNP led by opposition Chief whip

CHITTAGONG:  In the aftermath of Sunday’s whirlwind attacks and vandalizing of vehicles, police rounded up 143 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student-wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from the port city.The leaders and workers of the Jamaat and Shibir on Sunday afternoon brought out a

SAVAR: Violent clashes between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Monday left over 50 people injured over establishing supremacy in a dormitory.  Two of the injured sustained bullet injuries while a total of 15 were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital “in critical

LONDON: Senior Vice-chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party Tarique Rahman called upon expatriate BNP leaders to work in party and country’s interest, as he Sunday sat with them for a review of situation back at home after a long stay in exile.  “You are all living abroad. I am also

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Matiur Rahman Nizami fell sick twice during police interrogation Sunday night. The interrogation began at 8pm at the Detective Branch (DB) office where Nizami was under interrogation for three hours.DB sources told banglanews24.com.bd that the interrogation

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Matiur Rahman Nizami felled sick at least twice during the interrogation session Sunday night. The interrogation started at 8pm at the metropolitan detective branch office where Nizami suffered illness twice within the next three hours.Intelligence sources said

London: Senior Vice-president of BNP Tareque Rahman is now in a meeting with the party leaders residing in 31 countries at London on Sunday.   The meeting started at local time 2 pm (Bangladesh time at 8 pm) with the Presidents and General Secretaries of the foreign committees.  

DHAKA: Detectives started quizzing Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami at about 8pm after taking him to the BD police headquarters Sunday in a case filed with Paltan Thana.The case was filed against the top three leaders of Jamaat, including Nizami, accusing them of obstructing police from

DHAKA: Protestors gathered at city’s Malibagh-Mouchak intersection Sunday to stage a demonstration against the recent arrest of top Jamaat leaders but dispersed quickly as police drove in.At around 1:30 pm, they came out on the road and blocked traffic on the busy crossroads as part of

DHAKA: BNP Vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury was taken on another one-day remand Sunday in the case of torching a vehicle near Maghbazar rail crossing on the night before the June 27 hartal that left one dead and two burn-injured.Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Mohammad Ali

DHAKA: A Dhaka court fixed August 2 for submitting probe report in a case of freedom-fighter killings at Keraniganj in 1971, in which the two top-most Jamaat leaders are implicated.Chief judicial magistrate Taiyabul Hasan asked Keraniganj police to submit the report after Jamaat Ameer

DHAKA: Dhaka city unit of BNP is set to hold a joint meeting on Sunday evening at Moulana Bhasani Bhaban in the city’s Nayapaltan area, ahead of their agitation programmes.The meeting will discuss “ways and means of making a success” the upcoming 7 July human-chain demonstrations,

DHAKA: BNP Standing Committee Member and ex-minister Mirza Abbas was shifted to BIRDEM hospital from Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday afternoon.His wife Afroza Abbas alleged police created obstruction at the time.He was admitted to BIRDEM at about 4pm amid the impediment. His

RAJBARI: Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun said the recent hartal enforced by the opposition BNP without any issue was designed to stop the graft trial of its chief’s two sons or war crimes trial. She made the allegation at a meeting of law-and-order committee in the conference room

DHAKA: Another big bunch of 1500 cases are going to the designated panel Sunday for bundling out in the process of clearing the decks loaded mainly during the past emergency rule.        Official sources said the latest load of cases will be placed before the National Committee for

DHAKA: With the party’s back pressed to the wall, Jamaat-e-Islami turned around with a weeklong programme thrown Saturday to protest the arrest of its three top leaders and press for their release. The programmes include countrywide demonstrations on July 4 and 5, staging human-chain

DHAKA: Awami League leader and former Home Minister Mohammad Nasim Saturday said Jamaat-e-Islami leaders should be tried immediately for their war crimes. “The public should not be confused… three Jamaat leaders were arrested for different reasons, but they should be tried for war

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League will stage a rally Saturday to protest the torching and vandalising of vehicles and Faruque killing centering the June 27 hartal enforced by the main opposition BNP.Deputy Office Secretary of the party’s Dhaka Metropolitan unit Shahidul Islam Milon told