Hanif hopes for ban on Jamaat by next March

Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif yesterday hoped that the decision over banning Jamaat-e-Islami would be finalised by March next year.
19 November 2015

Khaleda may return home tomorrow

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is returning home tomorrow after her over two months' stay in London, the party has said.
19 November 2015

SQ Chy 'denied justice'

BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury has been denied justice, the party said yesterday, a day after the Supreme Court dismissed his petition seeking reconsideration of its verdict.
19 November 2015

Jamaat calls hartal, BNP keeps mum

Alleged pro-hartal supporters set fire to a bus and vandalised one more in the capital's Jatrabari area last night, hours before a countrywide hartal was called by the Jamaat-e-Islami.
18 November 2015

Gayeshwar finally walks out on bail

BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy was released from jail on bail yesterday.
17 November 2015

Khaleda might be arrested on return

There is no existence of the Islamic State in Bangladesh, and the terrorist group has no reason to be here, prime minister's special envoy HM Ershad said yesterday.
16 November 2015

Rly starts demolishing illegal structures in C'nawabganj

The railway authorities have started demolishing illegal structures on railway land in Chapainawabganj.
16 November 2015

HC defers passing order on Fakhrul's bail petition

The High Court yesterday deferred until November 22 the date for delivering its verdict on bail petitions filed by BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three arson and vandalism cases.
16 November 2015

Khaleda turned BNP into party of terrorists

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu yesterday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia had made BNP a party of terrorists and as their leader she had chosen the way of her own destruction.
16 November 2015

BNP condemns Paris attacks

Protesting the terrorist attacks in Paris and “standing by the world community against terrorism”, BNP yesterday said it would work against extremist forces if it comes to power.
15 November 2015

Gazipur SP's bodyguard fires gun panicked by tailgating BCL posse

A bodyguard of Gazipur's superintendent of police (SP) fired two shots overhead near a police checkpost at Uttara's Kamarpara around 7:00pm after seeing around 15 Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists following his car.
15 November 2015

Deer musk worth Tk 1.7cr seized in Joypurhat

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have seized 85 deer musk worth about Tk 1.7crore from Chachra border in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat district.
15 November 2015

Faridpur leader quits BNP on 'ideological grounds'

Shahriar Rumi, a central executive committee member of BNP and vice president of its Faridpur district unit, resigned from all posts of the party yesterday on "ideological grounds".
15 November 2015

RMG worker burnt in acid attack dies

A garment worker, who was injured in an acid attack allegedly by her husband in Savar, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
15 November 2015

Nagorik Oikya wants release of Manna

Leaders of Nagorik Oikya at a programme yesterday demanded that the government release its leader Mahmudur
13 November 2015

Nagorik Oikya wants release of Manna

Leaders of Nagorik Oikya at a programme yesterday demanded that the government release its leader Mahmudur
13 November 2015

Public embarrassed about PM's remarks against Khaleda: BNP

BNP yesterday said the public was embarrassed about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's remarks against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on
13 November 2015

BNP to resist bid to remove Zia's grave

The BNP will put up resistance if the government attempts to remove the grave of party founder Ziaur Rahman from Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban area.
12 November 2015

Chained madrasa boy rescued, accused teacher suspended

The local administration rescued a chained seven-year-old student of Sarutia Jame-ul-Ulum Madrasa in the municipality area of Bhangura upazila under the district on Monday.
11 November 2015

Govt sees Tarique as competitor in Khaleda's absence

BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday alleged that the government was conspiring and issuing
11 November 2015