Dhaka – Students will observe general strike in educational institutions across the country on 3 April demanding trial of the killers of Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu in Comilla. The announcement for the strike came at capital’s Shahbagh intersection…
Dhaka – A court in Comilla on Monday ordered that the body of Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu be exhumed for fresh autopsy. The court order follows ‘discrepancies’ in the investigating agencies’ primary findings and what has been…
Natore – A tribunal here on Monday sentenced five members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life imprisonment in connection with the August 17 series bomb attack.
Dhaka – Police arrested a young man along with five gold bars at Kamalapur Railway Station in the city on Monday morning.
A Bangladesh national has died in the US while trying to protect his wife who was stabbed by a shoplifter outside the store both worked for.Washi Ahmed, who hailed from Mymensingh, and his wife Lagrima Paulina Lopez used to work…
More people and organisations across the country lent voice to the demand for the immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the killers of Comilla’s college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu as there has been no arrest even after seven days of…
Dhaka – At least 65 people have been killed and many others injured in an explosion at a park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials say, the BBC reported last evening. It happened in the early evening when…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Supreme Cour has fined ministers Qamrul and Mozammel Tk 50,000 each for controversial comments about CJ, or to serve 7 days’ jail in default, UNB news agency reported. Food Minister Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister…
By David Chazan, and Henry Samuel, in Brussels Three suspects were charged with terrorism offences on Saturday including one man named in Belgian media as the third Brussels airport attacker who fled as the other two blew themselves up. The…
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said Tonu killers will be tried He told this to journalists after a Independence Day programme at Razarbagh Police Lines held in honour of the police martyred in 1971.“Detectives are working on the…
Brussels – Belgian police have arrested six people in Brussels as a major investigation continues into attacks that claimed 31 lives in the city on Tuesday.
The Hague — A UN court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges Thursday and sentenced him to 40 years in prison for orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout Bosnia’s 1992-95 war that left 100,000 people…
Just moments before Brussels airport bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui detonated a deadly explosive package, he dumped a major clue into a nearby bin.
Brussels – Three suicide bombers who struck Brussels airport and a metro train in attacks claimed by the Islamic State were identified Wednesday, as the manhunt for a fourth man whose suitcase bomb failed to detonate intensified. Prosecutors said brothers…
Dhaka – A BNP leader was hacked to death by some unidentified miscreants at Lohapatti in Jessore district town on Wednesday night, UNB news agency reported.
By Reuters and VICE News Belgium has confirmed the identities of two of the assailants in the Brussels airport and metro attacks that left 31 dead, with the country’s federal prosecutor Frederic van Leeuw naming a pair of brothers among…
Explosions tore through the departure hall of Brussels airport on Tuesday morning killing at least 14 people and injuring another 81. Shortly afterwards, a second blast struck a metro station in the Belgian capital, close to European Union (EU) institutions,…
Dhaka – Polling at 13 centres was suspended in five upazilas during the first phase union parishad (UP) elections on Tuesday morning, UNB news agency reported. The suspension followed an order of the Election Commission over allegations of seizing control…
Dhaka – An assistant presiding officer and a polling officer received injuries as miscreants opened shots at a polling centre in Char King union of Hatiya upazila on Tuesday morning, UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka – Two people were injured in police firing during their alleged attempt to snatch ballots at Bhaghbah polling centre in Kumira union of Tala upazila on Tuesday morning, news agency UNB reported from Satkhira. Election officer AHM Qamrul Hasan…
Unidentified miscreants killed a bKash agent and looted Tk 1.25 from him in the Uttar Badda area of Dhaka this morning.
Inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque has said if needed, help would be sought from the international agencies dealing with money laundering, for unveiling the clue to the $101 million cyber heist at Bangladesh Bank. He said this to…
Two BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) officials working in Afghanistan have been abducted by unidentified gunmen. They were going from Kunduz to Baghlan when their vehicle was intercepted by armed men around 4pm Thursday. The two are BRAC Afghanistan’s chief…
Following Thursday’s closed door testimony of Maia Deguito, it does not appear to Senate blue ribbon committee chair Teofisto Guingona III that she is the “most guilty” of the US$81 million fund heist. The Senator concludes that more officials of…
Tanvir Hassan Zoha, who talked to the media as a cyber security specialist after the recent heist from Bangladesh Bank reserve account, has remained missing since Wednesday night. A family member of Tanvir told the Prothom Alo on Friday that…
Dhaka – The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police will hold a meeting with United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at CID headquarters in the city on Friday afternoon to discuss about the much-talked about the $101…
A ruling Awami League ministers on Thursday observed that the finance minister AMA Muhith and the former Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Atiur Rahman cannot avoid the responsibly of the recent heist from BB account with Federal Reserve Bank of New…
Dhaka – Newly appointed governor of Bangladesh Bank Fazle Kabir said his first priority will be to prevent recurrence of such incident of heist through which hackers took away more than $100 million from the central bank account with US…
Dhaka – Though efforts are on to get back the stolen $81 million from the Bangladesh Bank, Philippines now finds ‘very low’ chance to retrieve it because the money is now likely outside the Southeast Asian country. “There is a…
A man was hacked dead by miscreants as he resisted abduction of his daughter at Bhuigarh in Narayanganj early Wednesday.The victim Manindra Chandra, 52, was a day labourer and resident of Raghunathpur in the area. Four people were arrested in…