BARISAL: Barisal city Jamaat called half-day hartal in the division for Sunday demanding release of its Ameer Muazzem Hossain Helal. A press release singed by city Jamaat publicity secretary Nasir Uddin made the announcement on Thursday.                            The

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to lose her ‘Red Passport’ as she is neither Prime Minister of the country nor the leader of the opposition at the Jatiya Sangshad. She is likely to reach at Agargaon passport office around 4:00pm to apply for a Machine Readable Passport

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, expressing her concern, said that she cannot control her tears after seeing the water of Buriganga River. The premier, also ruling Awami League president, came up with the assertion while she was visiting the environment and forest

DHAKA: Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Thursday claimed that the demand of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for disbanding RAB is ill-motivated and a political game. Inu came up with the assertion in a press briefing at his secretariat office in the city. He also sought Khaleda’s

DHAKA: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, the former President of the country, placed self-justification at a Dhaka court against the corruption charge over radar purchase case on Thursday. Ershad along with his lawyers reached the court at 11:10am with a car carrying national flag.

JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY: Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) expelled six leaders of Jagannath University (JnU) unit on charge of their alleged involvement in a factional clash.      A press release singed by Chhatra League Office Secretary Sheikh Rasel made the disclosure on Wednesday.  

DHAKA: The abolition of country’s elite law enforcer Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) will not be a wise decision, commented National Parliament’s opposition leader Rowshan Ershad. She also suggested to ensure punishment for the accused RAB officers as well as to re-structure the force

DHAKA: The Election Commission will start updating voter list from Thursday.  Enumerators will start making door-to-door visits the same day.  Election Commission’s public relation department informed media on Wednesday noon. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed

DHAKA: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) chairperson Advocate Sultana Kamal said police now have become hostage to ruling party and they are using as tools to fulfill the political parties’ interest.  She said this while addressing a report releasing program at Brac Inn

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is likely to hold a gathering of the family members of those people, who had became victims of murder, forced disappearance and abductions nationwide. Members of home and foreign human rights organizations and civil society, eminent personalities

BARISAL: Police arrested Barisal metropolitan unit of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Advocate Moazzem Hossain Helal from Brown compound area of the town Tuesday midnight. A team of Kotwali Model Thana police conducted raid Helal’s house at 11:45pm. Sensing their presence, Helal took shelter his

CHITTAGONG: The daylong hartal, call by Jamaat-e-Islami, is underway in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar and three hill districts peacefully Wednesday. Additional law enforcers including Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were deployed in the districts to avert

DHAKA: Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Congress Party Ian Jun Ki met with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night. BNP sources said the delegation team met with Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office around 8:00pm. BDST: 2120 HRS, MAY 13, 2014

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday opined that Jamaat-e-Islami is doing democratic politics. “Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has their political ideology and principles. The party is doing politics democratically,” he said. The spokesperson for

JHENIDAH: The district BNP has called daylong hartal for Thursday in Kaliganj upazila in protest against the murder of its local leader Ismail Hossain. Local BNP leader and former Municipal Mayor Mahbubur Rahman made the announcement at a mass rally in the upazila on Tuesday. He said

JHENIDAH: The district BNP has called daylong hartal for Thursday in Kaliganj upazila in protest against the murder of its local leader Ismail Hossain. Local BNP leader and former Municipal Mayor Mahbubur Rahman made the announcement at a mass rally in the upazila on Tuesday. He said

DHAKA: A Chittagong court on Tuesday sent 21 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists, including port city Jamaat Ameer ANM Shamsul Islam and Secretary Nazrul Islam on Tuesday. The court also fixed May 18 as hearing date on police’s seven-day remand plea of them. Chittagong Metropolitan

FROM NARAYANGANG: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia demanded resignation of the government blaming it for sensational Narayanganj seven murders.     “RAB and Awami League are responsible for seven murders in Narayanganj. So, the government must step down immediately,” she said.      

CHITTAGONG: A case was filed against 21 Jamaat men, including port city Jamaat Ameer ANM Shamsul Islam and Secretary Nazrul Islam, under Anti-terrorism Act.           Kotwali Thana sub-inspector Imam Hossian filed the case on Monday late night.     Police also decided to seek

JHENIDAH: Miscreants hacked to death a local leader of BNP in Kaliganj upazila of the district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Ismail Hossin, 48, son of former mayor Abdul Mannan of Chapali area of the district town. Ismail was the president of Ward No.1 unit of Kaliganj