Janata Party Bangladesh
Janata Party Bangladesh organised a human-chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Monday to protest recent incidents of push-in by India. — FE Photo
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NCP is neither 'secularist' nor 'theocratic': Nahid
Nahid Islam, convenor of the National Citizen Party (NCP), has swept aside all ideas of the party being secularist or theocratic, saying it believes in 'religious coexistence, harmony and the practice of responsibility and compassion', reports bdnews24.com.Sharing the ideals of the NCP on social media, he said the party wants...
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BNP will protest move to rehabilitate AL: Nazrul Islam
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan has said any move to rehabilitate Awami League (AL) will be resisted.He also demanded the election to be held in December this year."Some are spreading the falsehood that the BNP is trying to rehabilitate the Awami League. However, there is...
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Clear DU campus of vagabonds: BDSU
The Dhaka University (DU) unit of the Bangladesh Democratic Students' Union (BDSU), also known as Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad, has submitted a memorandum to the university administration calling for immediately removing the floating people and vagabonds from the campus on security grounds.A delegation of the organisation handed over the memorandum...
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Actor Nusraat Faria sent to jail
A Dhaka court on Monday sent popular actor Nusraat Faria to jail in connection with an attempted murder case linked to the July-August uprising.Judge Sarah Farzana Haque of the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka passed the order.The court also fixed May 22 this year to hold a hearing for the...
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SC upholds bail of 61 pro-AL lawyers
The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the High Court (HC) order that stayed the bail of 61 pro-Awami League (AL) lawyers in a case filed over the alleged assault and attempted murder of fellow lawyers during July movement, reports UNB.It also ordered the disposal of the rule issued on their...
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British envoy meets Jamaat's women wing leaders
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke met leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami's women's wing and discussed the issues of mutual interest, reports UNB.They had an insightful discussion about their community engagement and the policy issues that matter most to them and their members, said the High Commission in a post...
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Salman, Qamrul, two others shown arrested in murder cases
A Dhaka court has showed Salman F Rahman, Anisul Huq, Qamrul Islam and Dr Dipu Moni arrested in two separate cases lodged over the killings which took place during the July-August mass uprising, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate MA Mazharul Islam passed the orders Monday as policeproduced the four before the...
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Hasina, 211 others sued in N'ganj murder case
NARAYANGANJ, May 19 UNB): Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former ministers Obaidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former local MP Shamim Osman, former Narayanganj city mayor Dr Selina Hayat Ivy, and 207 others were sued in a case over the killing of a shoe factory worker during the last year's...
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