DHAKA: Awami League led 14-party alliance Tuesday announced to hold rallies in four divisions throughout June to create mass awareness against propaganda of BNP-led alliance. The agenda is also aimed reuniting alliance men at the grass root levels in Chittagong, Rajshahi, Rangpur and

FENI: In a latest development in Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul killing case, law enforcing agencies on Tuesday arrested two accused including a local Awami League leader from separate places of the district. Of the arrestees, Abdur Rab, general secretary of Kazirbag union AL unit of

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League led 14-party alliance will hold a meeting at Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi political office on Tuesday morning.   Office coordinator of the 14-party Advocate Mrinal Kanti Das confirmed the matter to banglanews. The meeting will be held at 11:00am, he added.

DHAKA: The High Court on Monday allowed Chairman of a faction of Jatiya Party Kazi Zafar Ahmed to visit abroad with a view to undergoing treatment. An HC bench comprising Justice M Abdul Hafiz and Justice M Ruhul Quddus passed the three-month order after a plea from Zafar. Senior lawyer

FENI: Ruling Awami League suspended Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul murder mastermind party leader Zahid Chowdhury and suspected Anandapur unit general secretary Belal Hossain on Monday. Fulgazi Upazila Awami League secretary general M Abdul Alim confirmed the matter to banglanews. He

DHAKA: Narendra Modi has invited BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman to visit India after he had been sworn in as the 15th prime minister of India on Monday. Tarique was invited when his greeting message had been handed over to Modi by BJP central foreign affairs secretary BJ Jolie

SATKHIRA: At least two activists of ruling Awami League were injured in a factional clash over establishing supremacy in Satkhira Bus Terminal on Monday noon.Police also arrested four people from the area. The arrestees are Abdus Salam, Abdul Kalam, Abdur Rahman Shahazi and Nazrul Islam

FENI: A district court on Monday placed Fulgazi upazila Chairman Ekramul Murder mastermind Awami League leader Jahid Chowdhury on 8-day remand for police interrogation.Senior Judicial Magistrate Khairul Amin granted the remand around 4:00pm when investigation officer produced him before

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (fraction) chairman Kazi Zafar Ahmed, also former Prime Minister, has been taken to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of United Hospital in capital’s Gulshan area on Monday noon.Doctors referred him to shift him to ICU from cabin around 12:00 noon as his physical condition

DHAKA: The government is working in international forums to send workers in different countries without any cost of migration. Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain made the assertion at Secretariat’s conference room on Monday. The

DHAKA: Former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, believed to have been expecting a formal invitation to swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as Indian Premier, set a new example of visiting an ailing former Prime Minister in the midnight. Begum Zia has a track record of midnight

LAXMIPUR: An activist of Juba League (JL), associate body of ruling Awami League, was slaughtered by miscreants in Bashikpur area under Sadar upazila of the district early Monday. The deceased was identified as Roman Hossain, 22, son of Nurul Islam and resident of the area. Family and

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia visited the ailing Jatiya Party chairman and former Prime Minister Kazi Jafar Ahmed at United Hospital in capital’s Gulshan area early Monday. Khaleda went to the hospital at around 12:10am and inquired about his present physical condition.

DHAKA: Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will meet India Prime Minister-elect Norendra Modi on Tuesday. The courtesy call will be held at 1:00pm, says a press release from Jatiya Sangshad.  Besides, the foreign minister will call on India President Pranab Mukherjee. On Sunday,

FENI: Local unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has withdrawn the dawn-to-dusk hartal for Monday at Fulgazi upazila of the district.The withdrawal came after Awami League leader Zahid Chowdhury, mastermind of the Ekramul killing mission, detained from the district in the evening of

NARAYANGANJ: Krishak Sramik Janata League President Kader Siddiqui is going to fight for the Narayanganj-5 (Shahor-Bandar) constituency by-election, slated for June 26.District unit organizing Secretary Abu Bakar Siddique, on behalf of Kader, bought the nomination paper on Sunday

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad and his wife also opposition leader Rawsan Ershad took different positions on the by-poll of Narayanganj-5 constituency.JP Chairman wanted to nominate the party presidium member GM Kader while Rawsan wanted to nominate her political secretary

DHAKA: The High Court on Sunday passed split order on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s writ challenging appointment of a judge, who framed charges against her in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases. An HC bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Quazi Izarul

FENI: Upazila unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Monday at Fulgazi upazila in the district protesting the brutal killing of upazila chairman Ekramul Haque. The hartal will be observed from 6:00am to 5:00pm, said upazila unit BCL president Asif on

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s demand of disbanding Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) elimination is illogical. The leaders of Bangladesh Islamic Oikya Jote made the remarks in a human-chain protesting Khaleda’s demand at the National Press Club on