Dhaka: The security around Bangladesh Opposition chief Khaleda Zia's office has been stepped up after hundreds of pro-government activists tried to besiege the building demanding withdrawal of the ongoing nation-wide blockade.Workers have erected a barbed-wire
Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia was today charged by the police with ‘instigation' of the fire-bombing of a bus that left 7 people dead amid escalating political crisis in the country that has claimed
Dhaka: Bangladesh authorities on Saturday disconnected satellite cable and internet connections to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office here, hours after electricity connection was cut off, local media reported.BNP Chairperson's media wing member Shamsuddin Didar
Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia's self-exiled son, who died in Malaysia last week, was buried here today amid an escalation of political turmoil that has claimed 37 lives.Arafat Rahman Koko was buried at the
Dhaka: Another case, for "instigating arson", has been filed against former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia, who had called a nationwide transport blockade earlier this month, a media report said on Tuesday.Police booked her as
Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia has been charged by police of masterminding an arson attack on a bus that left 29 people injured, days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the former premier could
Dhaka: Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief Begum Khaleda Zia, died of cardiac arrest in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. He was 46.Koko suffered a cardiac arrest at
Dhaka: Sheikh Hasina today drove to the office of her arch-rival Khaleda Zia, who suffered bereavement losing her youngest son, but the Bangladesh Prime Minister had to go back from the gate without meeting the
Dhaka: Police in Bangladesh are braced for more violence this weekend after arson attacks, protests, strikes and blockades in recent days left 30 people dead and hundreds more injured.More than 7,000 people have been detained
Dhaka: Bangladesh's besieged opposition leader Khaleda Zia today accused the ruling Awami League of turning the country into a "police state" and warned of "dire consequences" for confining her to her office."None can hang on
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today gave a pep-talk to her archrival Khaleda Zia, advising her to shun the path of violence and refrain from “sabotage, violence and killing people”, amid deadly clashes between
Dhaka: Ahead of the first anniversary of the controversial elections which was boycotted by the opposition, police confined Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief Khaleda Zia, besieging her office here and forcing her to spend the night
Dhaka: Bangladesh's apex court Sunday rejected an appeal by former prime minister Khaleda Zia challenging a high court ruling that had upheld her indictment in a graft case.A five-member bench of the Supreme Court's appellate
Dhaka: A Dhaka court Monday started the trial of former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia on corruption charges in her absence.Zia has been charged with embezzlement in two cases that
Dhaka: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met former Bangladesh President Hussain Ershad's wife and opposition Jatiya Party leader Roshan Ershad before leaving for Delhi at the end of her three-day visit here. The meeting
Dhaka: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today held a meeting here with former Bangladesh Prime Minister and chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia.Swaraj, who held a series of meetings with the top leadership
Ahmedabad: Foreign Heads of State and government today congratulated BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on his party's victory in the Lok Sabha polls and said they were looking forward to working with him.The leaders
Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court today rejected a libel suit filed against former premier Khaleda Zia on charges of “distorting the history” by claiming that her late husband Ziaur Rahman was the nation's first president. Dhaka's
Dhaka: Former Bangladeshi premier Khaleda Zia and her fugitive son were today charged with corruption by a court here for allegedly collecting nearly USD 1 million in donations for charities named after her late husband.
Dhaka: Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina today asked her arch rival BNP chief Khaleda Zia to “shut up” even as she signalled her willingness to start a dialogue to end months of political unrest.“You could
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