Bangladesh

Former State Minister and 1971 Liberation War veteran Zinatunnesa Talukder of Rajshahi passed away at capital’s Ever care Hospital on Sunday morning. She was 76. Family sources said Zinatunnesa was suffering from acute heart and lungs diseases. She left behind two sons and numerous relatives, admirers and political followers to mourn her death. Zinatunnesa served as the state minister for ...

Police have filed a case accusing BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas and 848 others on charge of cocktail blasts targeting police members and obstructing them from performing their duties on Saturday during Nayapaltan grand rally. Shahjahanpur Police Station SI Mostafizur Rahman filed the case on Sunday (October 29). Mirza Abbas and 89 other BNP men were made FIR-listed accused, ...

A countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal called by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami is progressing amid some incidents of violence. The strike began by bus torching incident in the capital’s Mohammadpur area in the early hours. Later, another three buses set on fire at Baitul Mukarram, Tanti Bazar and Mohammadpur areas. Commuters have been suffering due to the thin presence of buses in the ...

A running bus has been set on fire in front of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the capital on Sunday when the main opposition BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami are observing their dawn-to-dusk hartal. Witnesses said a bus belonging to ‘Shikor Paribahan’ was set on fire at the South Gate of Baitul Mukarram around 8:45am. Being informed, fire-fighters rushed in and put ...

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been picked up from his Gulshan residence in the capital. A team of Detective Branch of (DB) Police raided Fakhrul’s Gulshan-2 house and, later, detained him at about 9:25am on Sunday. He was taken to DB office on Minto Road. Mirza Fakhrul’s wife Rahat Ara Begum said a team of DB police ...

A police constable was killed at Fakirapool crossing in the capital on Saturday during the clash between the main opposition BNP and law enforcers. The victim was identified as Constable Amirul Islam Parvez who hailed from Doulatpur in Makikganj district. However, it could not be known who launched attack on him. Doctors at the emergency department of the Dhaka Medical ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her firm conviction that BNP can’t reap any benefit giving threat of movement to Awami League. “BNP threatens to stage various types of movement. . .there is no benefit in showing all those threat of movements and fears to AL,” she said while addressing a grand rally at KEPZ field in Anwara organised on ...

Main opposition BNP has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country for Sunday (October 29) protesting attack on their peaceful grand rally in Dhaka by Awami League and police. The party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the hartal on Saturday afternoon through a hand-mike after police foiled their rally in front of Nayapaltan on Saturday. Allegations of launching ...

A police constable was killed at Fakirapool crossing in the capital on Saturday during the clash between the main opposition BNP and law enforcers. The victim was identified as Constable Amirul Islam Parvez who hailed from Doulatpur in Makikganj district. However, it could not be known who launched attack on him. Doctors at the emergency department of the Dhaka Medical ...

The grand rally of BNP foiled after police fired rubber bullets, sound grenades and lobbed tear gas shells, forcing the party leaders and activists to leave Nayapaltan rally venue. The rally, which began in front of the BNP Nayapaltan central office, was foiled at 2:15 pm on Saturday in police action. Meanwhile, the BNP men also set fire on papers ...