Jamaat

BNP-Jamaat clique to destroy country if returns to power: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the BNP-Jamaat clique will just destroy the country with their unbridled looting and corruption if they return to power as they did in the past.
27 July 2018, 09:23 AM

Jamaat, ISI behind terrorism in Bangladesh: Inu

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu alleges that Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence are involved in terrorist activities in Bangladesh.
19 August 2016, 11:04 AM

Fakhrul concerned over Hummam

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir voices concern over detention of Hummam Chowdhury, son of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
5 August 2016, 12:34 PM

Emajuddin made personal comment on Jamaat: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir terms Prof Emajuddin Ahmed’s comment on severing ties with Jamaat as his personal one.
3 August 2016, 11:44 AM

All-out efforts on to hunt down killers: PM

Pointing the finger at the BNP-Jamaat clique for all the recent secret killings in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the intelligence and law enforcement agencies are out there to track down the culprits.
8 June 2016, 08:44 AM

Jamaat changes logo

Jamaat-e-Islami brings change in its logo with using red and green colour on it.
7 June 2016, 15:39 PM

BNP-Jamaat out to oust govt, says Bangladesh PM Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has alleged that the BNP-Jamaat nexus has joined hands with Israel to oust her government as the two parties are working against the country and Islam.
18 May 2016, 18:00 PM

BNP, Jamaat joined hands with Israel to oust govt: PM

BNP-Jamaat nexus has joined hands with Israel to oust her government, as they are working against the country and Islam, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleges. "The truth can never be suppressed...the BNP-Jamaat clique has joined hands with those who are frequently killing children and women in Palestine," she says.
18 May 2016, 04:39 AM

Turkish envoy leaves Dhaka amid reports of withdrawal

Turkish envoy to Bangladesh leaves Dhaka amid media reports that he has been withdrawn in response to the execution of top war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami.
12 May 2016, 11:01 AM

Nizami buried in Pabna

Executed Jamaat ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami is buried at his village home in Santhia upazila in Pabna. Relatives and a few locals attended his namaz-e-janaza held at a madrasa at Monmothpur before he was buried around 7:15am.
11 May 2016, 04:32 AM

Govt ready to execute Nizami: Home minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says the government is fully prepared to execute the death sentence of convicted war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami.
10 May 2016, 11:25 AM

War crimes: Verdict read out to Nizami at Dhaka jail

Hours after Supreme Court released its full verdict dismissing condemned war criminal Nizami’s review plea, authorities of Dhaka jail, where he had been kept, reads out the verdict to him.
9 May 2016, 08:28 AM

Death row war criminal Nizami shifted to Dhaka jail from Kashimpur

Death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami has been shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from a Kashimpur jail in Gazipur. The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the Jamaat-e-Islami chief's petition for reviewing its verdict that upheld his death penalty awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal-1 in 2014.
8 May 2016, 17:19 PM

Stop interfering in internal issues, Dhaka tells Islamabad

Reacting to Pakistan's expression of concern over the dismissal of Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami's review plea against death sentence in war crimes trial, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam urges Islamabad not to interfere in Bangladesh’s internal affairs.
8 May 2016, 09:27 AM

24-hr hartal underway, Jamaat man held

An alleged activist of Jamaat-e-Islami was detained while trying to bring out a procession in Dhaka during the party-enforced 24-hour countrywide hartal.
8 May 2016, 04:34 AM

NO to Jamaat war criminal NIZAMI'S plea

The legal battle in the war crimes case against Motiur Rahman Nizami has finally drawn to a close after 69 long months. The man, who led the ruthless militia Al-Badr in the massacre of Bangalees including intellectuals and professionals during the 1971 Liberation War, has now only one option left -- seeking presidential clemency by confessing to the crimes he committed during the nine-month war.
5 May 2016, 18:00 PM

HSC exams rescheduled for hartal

The government reschedules the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for Sunday due to the 24-hour hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami.
5 May 2016, 13:54 PM

Those who conspired to kill Joy won’t be spared: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina vows to bring to justice those who conspired both at home and abroad to abduct and kill her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the USA.
30 April 2016, 09:24 AM

Create more scope for poor’s education: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stresses for taking more initiatives so that the country’s poor and meritorious students have a greater access to education.
20 April 2016, 09:51 AM

Jamaat calls hartal today

The Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday called for a dawn-to-dusk “peaceful” hartal for today to protest “the conspiracy against Islam's status as the state religion in the constitution”.
27 March 2016, 18:00 PM