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MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described Bangladesh’s first military ruler Ziaur Rahman as “real villain” of the August 15, 1975 plot while years later his wife Khaleda Zia emerged as another such figure as the August 21, 2004 grenade attack was carried out. “The real villain behind the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was Ziaur Rahman,” she told a virtual discussion marking the National Mourning Day and the 45th martyrdom anniversary of Bangabandhu on Sunday. The premier said Zia became the main beneficiary of the carnage as he simultaneously emerged as the ...

MNA Editorial Desk: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was released from jail for six months following an executive order, reached her Gulshan residence, ‘Firoza’, on Wednesday afternoon after two years, one month and 16 days. After walking out of the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) where she has been undergoing treatment since April 1 last year, Khaleda started for her Gulshan residence around 4:20 pm. Though the roads were almost empty, it took her nearly an hour to reach Firoza as huge party leaders and activists escorted the vehicle carrying her up to Karwanbazar. The government ...

MNA Editorial Desk: The High Court on Sunday asked Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Vice Chancellor to submit a report on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health condition by 5:00pm on Wednesday. The court also fixed February 27 for hearing on her bail petition in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. The HC bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice AKM Zahirul Huq came up with the directives on Sunday after hearing on the bail petition, reports UNB. The court asked the BSMMU VC to inform the court three things — whether Khaleda Zia allowed medical board to give her advanced ...

MNA National Desk: The Election Commission has kept its decision pending on the appeal filed by jailed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Feni 1 constituency, reported news agency. The commission kept the decision pending on Saturday, the third and last day of appeal hearing. Two more petitions filed by the BNP chief for Bogra 6 and 7 constituencies will be heard later in the day. On Saturday, appeal hearings of remaining 233 petitions filed by the nominees against the rejection of their candidacies are being held. Khaleda Zia’s nomination papers were rejected last week as she because of her conviction ...

MNA National Desk: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was taken back to jail in old part of Dhaka from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Thursday, reported new agency. Earlier on Wednesday, the law ministry issued a gazette notification saying that the trial of Khaleda Zia and others accused in the Niko corruption case will be held at a makeshift court in Old Dhaka central jail. The ministry issued the gazette notification transferring the court citing security reasons. According to the gazette, room no 7 of the old central jail’s administration building will be the venue for the makeshift court. ...

MNA National Desk: The five-member medical board of Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) checked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s previous medical papers at the hospital on Sunday. The board went to her cabin on the 5th floor of Cabin Block and examined all the papers for 15 minutes. The board will take a decision about her treatment later, said Brigadier General Abdullah Al Harun, director of BSMMU, after examining the papers. Now, the treatment will continue as before. Khaleda Zia was admitted to the BSMMU on Saturday afternoon after the prison authorities shifted her there from old Dhaka Central jail for ...

MNA National Desk: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) from old Dhaka Central jail on Saturday afternoon for her treatment in response to a court order. She will be taken to the hospital from the jail around 3 pm, said Inspector General of Prison Brigadier General Syed Iftekhan Uddin Ahmed. Meanwhile, Jail Superintendent Iqbal Kabir of Keraniganj Central Jail met Khaleda in the morning. The High Court on Thursday directed the government to immediately admit Khaleda Zia to the BSMMU and form a 5-member medical board afresh for her treatment, reported news ...

MNA National Desk: The Law Ministry on Tuesday evening (Sep 04) published a gazette notification for conducting the trial of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable trust case in old central jail, reported news agency. Earlier, the chief prosecutor of the case advocate Mosharraf Hossain Kajal told that the jail authority can not produce Khaleda in court hearing due to her illness and the trial of the case is hanging at the near end. Under the circumstances, we have filed a plea to court for shifting the trial to a makeshift court set up on the old central jail ...

MNA National Desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued arrest warrant against Bangaldesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia and her party’s standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy for making derogatory remarks about the number of martyrs in war of liberation and martyred intellectuals, reported news agency. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Abu Sayeed issued the warrant allowing a plea of plaintiff AB Siddiqui. The court also set 7 August for submitting report on execution of the order. According to the case documents, Khaleda at a rally of Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal on 21 December 2015, had made the objectionable remarks. Her party ...

MNA National Desk: The lawyers of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday filed separate petitions with the High Court (HC) seeking her bail in three cases. Among the three cases, two were filed in Cumilla on charge of plotting to carry out subversive acts and another in Narail on charge of defamation, said lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain. Earlier in the day, a HC bench of justice AKM Asaduzzaman and justice JBM Hassan granted permission to Khaleda for filing the bail petitions after her lawyers sought for it. Later, the HC bench fixed June 7 to hear the bail pleas of ...

MNA National Desk: The jail authorities have cancelled a planned meeting of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia with her family members citing illness, reported news agency. Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says they are worried about her health. Khaleda’s sister Selina Islam, son Tarique Rahman’s mother-in-law Iqbal Mand Banu and Tarique’s sister-in-law Shahina Khan Zaman Bindu, and several other relatives went to visit her at the old jailhouse on Nazimuddin Road in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Mirza Fakhrul said they had permission to visit her, but the jail authorities did not allow them to see her. He said the authorities ...

MNA National Desk: A Dhaka court has granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia till April 5 in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. Judge Dr Akhtaruzzaman of Dhaka Special Court-5 passed the order on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the BNP chief was not produced in the court today although strict security measures have been taken in the court area ahead of Khaleda’s appearance. Jail sources told media that she was not produced before the court due to sickness. Earlier on March 13, the same court ordered the jail authorities to produce the BNP Chairperson in the court on March 28 and 29 ...

MNA National Desk: The Supreme Court stayed until 8 May a High Court order granting a four-month interim bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain issued the order on Monday, after considering the leave to appeal petitions challenging BNP chief’s bail. Earlier, on 18 March, the SC bench set the date concluding its hearing on two petitions filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the state and another filed by Khaleda Zia seeking withdrawal of stay on bail order. Former Prime Minister Khaleda was ...

MNA National Desk: The Supreme Court today stayed till next Sunday the High Court order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. A four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, passed the order after hearing two petitions filed against the High Court order. The apex court also asked the ACC and government to file two separate leave-to-appeal petitions with the court by Sunday challenging the HC order on bail of Khaleda. On February 8, the Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka sentenced Khaleda to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in the ...

MNA National Desk: BNP leaders and activists formed a human chain in Dhaka this morning as part of their countrywide protest demanding release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Senior leaders and supporters of BNP gathered in front of Jatiya Press Club since 10:00am with placards and chanting slogans, blocking one side of the road. Huge number of law enforcers cordoned off the protesters to fend off any trouble. BNP’s districts, city units are also scheduled to observe the programmes at their convenient time and places. Earlier on Sunday, the party announced two-day countrywide fresh programmes, including formation of human chain ...

MNA National Desk: Counsels of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia filed an appeal petition challenging the verdict sentencing the former prime minister to five years of imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The appeal plea was filed with a branch of High Court at about 3:00pm on Tuesday, said Khaleda Zia’s lawyer Barrister Kaysar Kamal. Earlier, the senior lawyers of Khaleda Zia hold meeting for several hours at the hall room of Supreme Court’s bar in the morning. Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, AJ Mohammad Ali, Abdur Rezak Khan, Barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon, Barrister Badruddoza Badal, Sanaullah Mia, Aminul Islam, ...

MNA National Desk: BNP leaders and activists brought out a procession from Purana Paltan area in the city on Saturday in protest against the imprisonment of their Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a graft case. The BNP men brought out the rally from opposite to Kakrail Mosque area around 1:20 pm chanting slogans for the release of their leader. The law enforcers charged batons on the rally and detained several BNP activists from the procession. The BNP men brought out the rally as part of their 2-day protest programme against Khaleda’s conviction. Earlier on Friday, they staged demonstrations across the country ...

MNA National Desk: BNP joint secretary general Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon on Friday said a team of BNP lawyers went to the old central jail at Nazimuddin Road in the city in the evening for submitting an application to the jail authorities, seeking division for the BNP chief. However, the jail authorities did not meet them to receive it although they waited for nearly two hours at the jail gate. Earlier, Khaleda was taken to the old central jail after a special court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. Talking to reporters at ...

MNA National Desk: Security measures have been beefed up across the country including the capital Dhaka centring the verdict of Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. The former prime minister and five others, including her son Tarique Rahman stand accused of embezzling Tk 21 million in foreign donation meant for the Zia Orphanage Trust. As part of the security measures, close circuit cameras have been installed at different strategic points across the capital. The law enforcers have also set up checkposts at all the entry points of Dhaka to monitor movement of Dhaka-bound people. Inspector General ...

MNA National Desk: As tensions rise on the political scene over BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s graft case, police in Dhaka have prohibited all kinds of gatherings, processions and rallies on Thursday, when the court is scheduled to deliver its verdict. On Tuesday, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police issued a ‘special notice’, where it said any kind of gathering will be prohibited from 4am that day until further notice. It also said any kind of demonstration or procession hindering traffic or obstructing public movement will not be allowed. Carrying any kind of sticks, knives or any other sharp weapon and explosives or ...

MNA National Desk: BNP national executive committee’s daylong meeting started at Hotel Le Meridian on Saturday morning with its chairperson Khaleda Zia in chair. The inaugural session of meeting started at 11:05 am where a condolence motion was adopted for the eminent personalities and party activists who have died recently. The BNP leaders and activists observed a one-minute silence to show respect to them. Organizational report will be placed by the party’s Secretary General at this session and the BNP chief is expected to give fresh directive to her party leaders and activists about the party’s next course of action, ...

MNA National Desk: BNP Joint Secretary General Mahbub Uddin Khokon says the party is facing its ‘third major crisis’ with the coming verdict on the graft trial against BNP chief Khaleda Zia. It is ‘easy to guess’ what kind of verdict will be rendered, he said. The BNP leader and Supreme Court Bar Association General Secretary made the remarks on Sunday evening at a meeting of expatriate party activists in New York’s Brooklyn on Sunday evening. “The BNP is facing a major crisis for the third time,” he said. “The first time was after the murder of President Ziaur Rahman ...

MNA National Desk: The BNP-led coalition has again picked Md Tabith Awal to run for the mayor in the by-polls to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). The party’s nomination board led by its chairperson Khaleda Zia took the decision after interviewing its mayoral aspirants at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office on Monday night. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia-led panel interviewed the five candidates who sought the party’s ticket. The others who sought ticket were BNP Special Affairs Secretary Asaduzzaman Ripon, retired army major and former MP Akhtaruzzaman, Dhaka Metropolitan North Unit President MA Kayum and BNP’s Assistant Secretary for Publication ...

MNA National Desk: The Law Ministry on Monday shifted 16 cases filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to the makeshift court at Bakshibazar in the city. The ministry issued three gazette notifications in this regard, reported news agency. Law Minster Anisul Haque said the cases against Khaleda Zia were shifted to a single court for security concern, not for any political reason. Before talking to reporters, the minister held a meeting with the speaker of London Tower Hamlet Sabina Akthar when he sought the repatriation of the convicted killers of intellectuals during the 1971 Liberation War. Anisul Haque hoped that ...

MNA National Desk: Khaleda Zia has sent a legal notice to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, asking her to apologise for making ‘baseless and defamatory’ remarks about her assets abroad. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s counsel and BNP joint secretary general Barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon sent the notice by post on Tuesday. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir disclosed this at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office. In the notice, Khaleda demanded that the Prime Minister apologise unconditionally and publish it in the media by 30 days. Otherwise, Khaleda will take legal steps to sue the Prime Minister for ...

MNA National Desk: BNP accused the Prime Minister of giving ‘false and defamatory’ information about its chief Khaleda Zia and her family members’ assets in Saudi Arabia. “The PM’s comments on laundering money by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia are totally false, fabricated and baseless. The main motive behind such imaginary story of corruption is to dent the image of her and her family members and politically malign them,” said Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. The secretary general of BNP came up with the remarks while speaking at a press conference at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office for giving reaction to Prime ...

MNA National Desk: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been granted bail in both Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases. Judge of Dhaka Special Judges Court-5, Akhtaruzzaman on Tuesday handed down the bail order after the BNP chief appeared before the makeshift court at Bakshibazar in Dhaka at 11:00pm. Earlier on 30 November, the court issued arrest warrants against Khaleda cancelling her bail in the cases. The court announced that hearing of the Zia Orphanage Trust case will be held between 6 December and 8 December. On 3 July 2008, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed the Zia Orphanage Trust ...