New York – Four courageous and tireless advocates for human rights are the 2015 recipients of the prestigious Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch said today. The winners, leading voices for justice in their countries, are…
Bangladesh and India on Thursday agreed to cooperate with each other to control the circulation of fake currency notes. The decision was taken at a 2-day long Joint Task Force meeting on Fake Currency notes between Bangladesh and India held…
Plainclothes police detained two ‘members of the banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT)’ here on Thursday evening in connection with blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy murder. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) deputy commissioner (media) Muntasirul Islam said members of Detective Branch…
Two people were killed and two others injured in a gun attack in the city’s Madhya Badda area on Thursday night. The deceased were identified as Shamsu and Manik and the injured as Gama and Salam. Further details about the…
A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed November 12 for submission of the further investigation report for the last time in the Mazoor murder case. Judge SM Saiful Islam of Dhaka’s First Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court set the new…
In a dramatic turn around BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has postponed her visit to London for treatment of her eye problems due to pressuring need to be at home for political and personal reasons, according to party sources. Though she…
A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced the daily Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman to three years imprisonment in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) in 2010. Dhaka’s Third Special Court, Judge of Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-3…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Thursday alleged that the government wants to suppress the movement of the coalition by using guns. “Obstructions were also created during anti-Ayub and anti-Ershad movements in the past but people rose against them surpassing all…Wait…
At least 44 people are now known to have died, and more than 500 injured, following two major explosions in China’s northern city of Tianjin. Twelve firefighters were among the dead, China’s official Xinhua news agency said as it reported…
US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat on Wednesday said the US will restore Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) for Bangladesh if it fully implements specific measures listed in the GSP Action Plan for it. She made the remark…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday fined publisher as well as editor of the Bangla daily Janakantha Atikullah Khan Masud and its executive editor Shawdesh Roy Tk10,000 each for contempt of court. A six-member bench of…
On a still evening somewhere in an average South African suburb, a die-hard sports fan is in dreamland, where everything is moving. He sees men running, jumping, and even leaping. He sees a ball hit into a black velvet sky…
By Christina Lin Erdogan’s latest feat in beguiling US/NATO to back his demands regarding Syria is a masterpiece. Employing a familiar Chinese stratagem of (m¡n tin gu² ) often associated with Emperor Liu Bei’s (161-230 AD) military strategist Zhuge Liang…
The Rajshahi University Teachers Association (RUTA) on Wednesday brought out a condolence rally on the campus on the occasion of upcoming National Mourning day of August 15. The rally was started at 11.00 am from the Senate Building that went…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday held a meeting with top leaders of 20-party opposition alliance dispelling the remours about disunity within the coalition. “The unity of 20-party alliance is there and it will remain intact in future also. There is…
A mobile court here on Wednesday fined two people, including a factory owner, of Tk 1.50 lakh, in default sentenced two months simple jail to each for their involvement in making adulterated lozenges without BSTI approval at Old Dhaka.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Dhaka on Wednesday sentenced Jahangirnagar University (JU) teacher Ruhul Amin Khondokar to three years in prison for wishing the death of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Nazmul Haque Shyamol passed the…
Police in their anti-drug drives arrested 37 alleged drug dealers from the capital in 24 hours till 6am on Wednesday. Besides, law enforcers arrested three robbers along with four sharp weapons from Motijheel area during the period. Sources at the…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) President Rajib Ahsan on 16 days’ remand in eight cases filed against him with Paltan Police Station of the capital. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh passed the orders…
Construction work of elevated expressway from Airport to Kutubkhali on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway will begin from August 16, road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday. “It would help to reduce the traffic congestion of the capital after construction…
Members of Detective Branch (DB) last night arrested two people with one local made pipe gun and 55 pieces of yaba in separate drives at Rari Mohol and South Alekanda in the city.
A mobile court of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) today fined 11 vessels a total of Taka 3.5 lakh for different grounds.Authorised Officer of CPA and Executive Magistrate Mohammad Abul Hashem conducted the mobile court and fined the vessels for different…
Harvesting of T-Aus paddy of the current season has been completed in the district in the first week of the current month amid much enthusiasm.
A woman was crashed under wheels of a local train at Harespur area in Madhabpur upazila of the district this morning.The deceased was Rahima Khatun, 25, daughter of Alai Miah of Jamalpur village of the upazila.
Speakers at a meeting have stressed for strict enforcement of the amended Tobacco Control Act (TCA) in public places to save thousands of nonsmokers from indirect smoking and human lives.
Various political and socio-cultural organizations here have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the National Mourning Day and 40th anniversary of martyrdom of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15.The programmes include hoisting of national flag…
More than 35,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis.Similarly, they are getting facilities of safe drinking water from 2,350 tubewells installed in the slum areas besides different…
Bangladesh authorities should unequivocally declare their commitment to free speech instead of proposing self-censorship, says Human Rights Watch (HRW). The killing of secular blogger Niladri Chakrabarti is a harrowing reminder of the need for the Bangladesh government to take immediate…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday slammed those seeking constitutional amendment again, saying that these people were either advisers to military dictators or worked with them in other capacity and sucked their feet and begged their mercy. “While discussing, some…
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) on Tuesday condemned Sheikh Sirajul Islam to death and sentenced Khan Akram Hossain of Bagerhat to jail unto death for their crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. A three-member ICT-1 bench, led by…