DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to exchange views with leaders and activists of three organizational districts ---Saidpur, Nilphamari and Panchagarh-- on Thursday night.Sources said that the view exchange meeting will be held at Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office at

SIRAJGANJ: An activist of Jamaat-e-Islami was killed and 10 others were injured in a clash with activists of ruling Awami League in Belkuchi upazila of the district on Wednesday night.The deceased was identified as Alamgir Hossain, 25, son of Jamiruddin, resident of Bhangabari

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is likely to hold long march to the Teesta River and rallies demanding fair sharing of the river’s water between Bangladesh and India, said sources of the party.The matters were given importance at a BNP Standing Committee’s meeting held at

PATUAKHALI: BNP-led 19-party alliance announced a dawn-to-dusk hartal at Dumki upazila in the district for Thursday protesting vote rigging, capturing polling centers and getting ousting their agents during re-voting.Re-voting is underway in the five postponed centers amid boycott of

DHAKA: State Minister for Finance MA Mannan on Wednesday applauded value added tax (VAT) while criticized incentive for business.“You have to accept that VAT is a King, and incentive is a dangerous game,” he said.Mannan came up with the assertion while addressing a meeting with the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court sent president and general secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) to jail rejecting both the bail and remand petitions in several cases.Metropolitan Magistrates Rezaul Karim and Maruf Hossain passed the order after hearing on the petitions.The leaders are Abdul

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged rich people to come forward for serving humanity.The premier came up with the assertion while addressing the inaugural ceremony of Cancer and General Hospital of Ahsania Mission at Uttara in city on Wednesday.BDST: 1306 HRS, APR 09, 2014

DHAKA: Re-voting in 23 polling centers of five upazilas, postponed in the third and fourth phases of upazila parishad elections, ended and stated counting on Wednesday afternoon.The voting started at 8:00am in nine polling centers of Gazaria upazila in Munshiganj district and four centers

LONDON: BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman reiterated that late President Ziaur Rahman, also his father, was the first president of independent Bangladesh.       He came up with the assertion while addressing a public meeting at Westminster Hall of central London in Britain on

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was released on bail from Kashimpur jail on Tuesday evening.  The BNP leader walked out from the jail around 7:20pm, said the jail authorities.   On Monday the High Court granted a six-month bail to Mirza Fakhrul Islam in

DHAKA: Former President Badruddoza Chowdhury, also president of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh, asked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to start a new journey towards democracy seeking apology to the countrymen.The senior politician of the country came up with the plea while addressing a rally

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is going to be released on bail from Kashimpur jail on Tuesday afternoon.  Authorities from the Kashimpur jail confirmed the matter to banglanews.   BNP Chairperson’s media wing spokesperson Shairul Kabir Khan hoped that

DHAKA: The Standing Committee member of BNP Nazrul Islam Khan demanded to open the frozen bank accounts of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.He came up with the disclosure in a press briefing at the BNP central office in city’s Naya Paltan area on Tuesday.Nazrul Islam said that the government

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has decided to pay heed to root level politics instead of staging impractical programs.Sources said that the BNP chief thought any wide-ranged demonstration programme would not be logical at this moment.She would rather plan to increase the interaction

DHAKA: In a quizzing of Anti-Corruption Commission, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain’s wife Bilkis Akter admitted that she siphoned off money to United Kingdom.   Bikis informed that she had a joint account with his husband in a London bank.       ACC

DHAKA: The meeting of BNP standing committee will be held on Wednesday night at Chairperson’s Gulshan office.  BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will preside over in the meeting at 8:30pm.    A reliable source of the party confirmed the matter to banglanews.  Various important issues

RANGPUR: District BNP and its front organizations called half-day hartal for Wednesday in the district demanding release of Swechhasebak Dal president Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel.   The shutdown will be enforced from 6:00am and continue till 2:00pm.      District BNP convener Mozaffar

DHAKA: BNP will stage countrywide black flag processions on April 10 and 17, protesting the indictment of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Vice-Chairman Tarrique Rahman.BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia in a press conference announcement the programs at Supreme

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will meet the leaders of Bangladesh Labour Party on Tuesday.Sources said that the meeting will be held at BNP Chairperson’s political office at 8:30pm on the day.Sources added that a delegation 17 members, led by Labour Party Chairman Dr. Mustafijur

DHAKA: Strong mass-media is needed for democracy, said information minister Hasanul Haque Inu.The minister said as chief guest at daily ‘Ajker Patrika’ logo inauguration program on Monday.He said democracy needs strong mass-media because it is considered as the fourth pillar of the