Dhaka, Aug 16 -A Libyan criminal court has sentenced 45 militiamen to death by firing squad for killing demonstrators in Tripoli in 2011, the justice ministry says, reports the BBC.
Category: Crime
Four JMB men held in city
Dhaka – The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested four suspected active members of banned Islamist outfit JMB from the city’s Abdullahpur area on Sunday night.
5 sentenced to death in Patuakhali war crimes
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday sentenced five men from Patuakhali district to death for their involvement in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Airplane theft shows potential dangers from airline workers
The theft of an empty plane by an airline worker who performed dangerous loops before crashing into a remote island in Puget Sound illustrated what aviation experts have long known: One of the biggest potential perils for commercial air travel…
Dubai deports Swedish woman who ‘insulted’ airport officials
A Swedish national who attempted to enter Dubai on an expired passport and later “insulted” airport officials was deported with all the charges dropped against her. The Dubai Public Prosecution has completed investigations and closed the case, Esam Issa Al…
Sylhet JCD leader killed in factional clash
Sylhet, Aug 12 – A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatradal was killed and two activists injured in a factional clash in Kumarpara area of the city on Saturday night.
‘Sexual violence applied to force ethnic minorities migrate’
Dhaka, Aug 11 – Sexual violence against ethnic minority women is used as one of the main tools to force the people living in hills to migrate elsewhere leaving their ancestral lands, say experts and human right activists.
‘Drug trader’ killed in Munshiganj ‘gunfight’
Dhaka – A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Purbakumarbhog in Louhajang upazila in Munshiganj early Friday.
One held with 624 gold bars at Benapole
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested a man along with 624 gold bars, weighing some 73 kg, from Shikarpur border point in Sharsha upazila in Benapole on Thursday night.
CID busts question leak gang, arrest 9
Dhaka– Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested nine members of an organised gang involved in leaking questions of different public examinations in last six days till Wednesday from different parts of the city.
4 ‘JMB’ men held in Lalmonirhat
Dhaka – Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in a drive arrested four alleged members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from MM Plaza market area of Patgram municipality in Lalmonirhat on Wednesday night.
One burnt to death for killing van puller in Dinajpur
Dhaka – A man was burnt to death as villagers set him on fire while he was fleeing after ‘killing’ a van puller at Jagodal Dangapara in Birganj upazila in Dinajpur on Thursday.
700kg polythene seized from Chawkbazar
Dhaka- The Department of Environment (DoE) on Wednesday in a drive seized some 700 kgs of banned polythene from three factories in the city’s Chawkbazar area.
“Outrage appropriate, surprise is not”: Tackling Sex Abuse
A new report on the scale and extent of sexual abuse and exploitation in the aid sector should come as no surprise. It is now time for international agencies, including the UN, to step up and show some much-needed leadership…
British tourist racks up Dhs170,000 fine in three hours in Dubai
A British tourist in Dubai racked up Dhs170,000 in traffic fines in three hours while driving at twice the speed limit in a Lamborghini Huracan on Sheikh Zayed Road. The tourist rented the supercar worth Dhs1.3m on July 30 from…
Youth stabbed to death in Chattogram
Dhaka – A young man was stabbed to death by a miscreant following a brawl at Gunagari area of Banskhali upazila in Chattogram on Tuesday morning.
Husband, father-in-law to die for killing woman in Satkhira
Dhaka- A court here on Tuesday sentenced a man and his father to death for killing his wife over a family feud at Chanduria village of Kolaroa upazila in Satkhira during 2017.
Journalists demand immediate arrest of attackers
Dhaka – Journalists from different media outlets on Tuesday demanded immediate arrest of those who attacked some of their colleagues during the ongoing student movement seeking safe roads.
Union leaders for trial of those who assaulted photographers
Dhaka, Aug 6 – Journalists’ leaders on Monday demanded the arrest and trial of attackers of their fellows while covering the students’ agitation during the last two days.
Four on remand over killing student
Dhaka, Aug 6 – A Dhaka court placed two drivers and two helpers of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan bus on a 7-day remand in a case filed over the deaths of two college students in a bus crash on Airport Road.
Youth stabbed to death in Pabna
Dhaka – A young man was stabbed to death by adversaries following a land dispute at Kulunia village in Sadar upazila in Pabna on Saturday night.
4 to die for murder in Sylhet
A tribunal here on Sunday convicted four people and sentenced them to death for killing a girl after rape.
College principal found dead in Sylhet hotel
Dhaka – Police recovered the body of a college principal from a residential hotel at Dhopadighipar area in Sylhet on Saturday.
Housewife ‘commits’ suicide in Sunamganj
Dhaka – A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her house at Jangalbari in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj on Friday.
Ex-Jamaat MP Shahjahan held
Dhaka – Plainclothes police arrested former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Shahjahan Chowdhury and six other leaders and activists from a house in Wireless Murgi Farm area of the city on Friday noon on sabotage charge.
Off-duty Emirati ‘pilot’ threatened to blow up Dubai-bound plane
An off-duty Emirati pilot appeared in court on Wednesday on charges of drunkenness, behaving rowdily on an aircraft and threatening its safety after issuing bomb threats on a flight from Madrid to Dubai, according to reports. A newspaper said that…
US judge blocks 3D-printed gun software release
A US federal judge in Seattle has blocked the release of software that allows consumers to 3D-print firearms. Gun access advocacy group Defense Distributed was due to put downloadable gun blueprints online on Wednesday.
Schoolgirl killed in Cumilla road crash
Dhaka -A schoolgirl was killed and another injured when a bus knocked her down on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Gomta in Chandina upazila in Cumilla on Tuesday.
High-powered panel deployed to probe Barapukuria coal theft
Dhaka, Jul 29 – A high-powered probe committee has been formed with a director general of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) as its head to look into the disappearance of coal from storages of the Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited…
AL man picked up by unidentified people in capital
Dhaka, July 27 – Parvez Hossain Sarker, former chairman of Comilla’s Titas upazila with Awami League ticket has been reportedly picked up by men in plainclothes from Lalmatia area of the capital on Friday afternoon.