Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
The government has sent letters to foreign missions in Dhaka explaining the reasons for arresting Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, general secretary of the opposition BNP, and Mirza Abbas, a member of its standing committee. The letter also explained the reasons for the clash between the police and the leaders and workers of the opposition Bangladesh […]
BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas will remain in jail after a Dhaka court rejected their bail pleas for inciting the attack on police in Naya Paltan. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shafi Uddin rejected the bail applications of Mirza Fakhrul, Abbas and 222 other BNP leaders and workers in a hearing on Monday. […]
Most of the demands are not new. Some of the key demands are: resignation of the government by dissolution of parliament, formation of a new election commission and a caretaker government to oversee the next general election in line with the constitutional amendment brought in in 1996, and Khaleda’s release. The BNP wants to amend […]
Biplab Kumar Sarkar, Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, says Jamaat activists disguised as regular worshipers are trying to create unrest after police stopped worshipers during Friday prayers in Naya Paltan area. Biplab, who came to the BNP headquarters on Friday to inspect the precautions being taken by law enforcers, said the police were on […]
A long line of policemen formed outside the BNP office as dozens of armored vehicles and prison vans lined the deserted road. Police blocked the road on Wednesday in the wake of violent clashes between law enforcers and BNP loyalists who gathered outside the party’s central offices in preparation for a divisional rally on December […]
The government hoped to resolve the dispute with the BNP over the venue of his Dhaka rally, but the issue turned violent. Finally, the two sides have reached a consensus on this matter. BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had said on Thursday evening that they would hold a rally in Naya Paltan, defying […]
There has been a sharp drop in the number of intra-city public transport on Dhaka’s roads, although transport owners came out on Wednesday to reaffirm their services following clashes between police and BNP activists in Naya Paltan, in which one person was injured. had died. As a result, commuters, especially office goers, suffered huge losses […]
Apart from this, 23 leaders and workers were placed on remand on different conditions in two separate cases registered at Paltan and Motijheel police stations in connection with incidents of clashes between police and BNP leaders and workers on Wednesday. The order was passed by Additional Magistrate Tofajzel Hossain of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court […]
Those jailed in Paltan police cases include Abdus Salam, advisor and convenor to the president of the Dhaka Metropolitan South Unit, joint general secretary Khairul Kabir Khokon, publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhary Annie and special assistant to the president Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas. Another advisor to the Speaker, Amanullah Aman, and Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel, […]
Police have opened the roads in Naya Paltan area after blocking it for hours by calling it a ‘crime scene’. The roads from Nightingale intersection to Fakirapul were opened for the movement of people at around 4 pm on Thursday. Clashes took place at this spot on Wednesday in which one BNP worker was killed […]
Biplab Kumar Sarkar, Joint Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), requested journalists who had been in the area since morning to leave the scene. “You (journalists) will go out after I speak. We will arrange for you to stand outside where you feel comfortable. Our campaign is not over yet. He also said, “We […]
The general secretary made the announcement at a press conference at the party’s president’s office in the capital’s Gulshan. Asked how they would hold the rally there after the place was cordoned off by law enforcement agencies, Mirza Fakhrul said, “We will go there on December 10. Then people will decide what will happen.”
