The two-day 2nd International Conference on Genocide and Mass Violence began at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban auditorium of Dhaka University (DU) on Thursday. The DU Centre for Genocide Studies organised the conference in cooperation with the Cultural Affairs…
Dhaka – Three owners of the capital’s Apan Jewellers secured bail from the High Court on Thursday in three separate money laundering cases.
Dhaka – Financial irregularities in the banking sector are increasing due to lack of ethics, according to a research report of Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) released Thursday.
Dhaka – The High Court on Thursday paved the way for BNP mayoral candidate Kawsar Zaman Babla to contest Rangpur City Corporation election to be held on December 21.
Dhaka – The High Court on Thursday banned to use horn after 10.00pm and set the 20kmph speed limit at the residential and VIP areas of Dhaka city.
Dhaka – Police arrested three operatives of militant outfit neo-JMB, including Abdus Samad alias Arif Mamu alias Ashique, one of its founders, in the city’s Mohakhali area on Wednesday night.The two other detainees are Ziadul Islam and Md Azizul Islam.
Dhaka -Custom intelligence officials arrested a man along with 2 pieces of gold bar from Benapole international check post in Benapole on Thursday.
Dhaka – Shirhan Sherif Tomal, Ishwardi upazila Jubo League president and son of Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif, has been expelled from the organisation over the attack on journalists in Rooppur on November 29.
Dhaka – An Indian citizen has died of heart attack in Jessore Central Jail.The deceased was identified as Domi Ram, 50, son of Santo Ram.
Dhaka – A man was killed and 15 others were injured and six houses were torched in a clash between two rival groups over land dispute in Hologram union Chaar of Sadar upazila on Wednesday.The deceased was Nurjamal Mandal, 55,…
At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in the month after violence broke out in Myanmar in August, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says. Based on surveys of refugees in Bangladesh, the number is much higher than Myanmar’s official figure of 400.…
Magura, Dec 14 – Police rescued a couple from Elengkhali village in Mohammadpur Upazila of Magura district on Wednesday night a day after their abduction from Elengkhali Bridge area.
Dhaka- A man was killed and 15 others were injured and six houses were torched in a clash between two rival groups over land dispute in Hologram union Chaar of Sadar upazila on Wednesday.The deceased was Nurjamal Mandal, 55, son…
Dhaka – The High Court on Wednesday asked the owner of the Niramoy Private Clinic and fake physician Razan the Das of Patuakhali, who left gauze inside a woman’s abdomen, to pay the victim Tk 9 lakh as compensation.
Dhaka – Bangladesh police have not found any evidence of Akayed Ullah’s involvement in militant activities at home who allegedly blew up his homemade explosive in a pedestrian subway tunnel in the heart of the Midtown Manhattan in New York.
Dhaka – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Wednesday granted bail to two Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) leaders after hearing in a case filed on the charge of making derogatory remarks against Bangabandhu…
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested two alleged terrorists along with arms from Namajgram area of Puthia upazila on Tuesday night.
Dhaka – Police have arrested six people, including the imam of a local mosque, in Kumarkhali upazila in connection with a fatwa (edict) prohibiting women from going to farms.The arrestees are President of Kalyanpur Mosque Committee Altaf Hossain, its Secretary…
Dhaka, Dec 13 – The High Court on Wednesday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why the misuse of the mobile court out of personal grudge should not be declared illegal.
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Dec 12 (IPS) – Almost 70 years since the Genocide Convention was adopted, the international community still faces a continued and growing risk of genocide.
Dhaka – The Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 of Dhaka yesterday sentenced four persons to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a young man named Md Rana of Demra Staff Quarter in the city.
Dhaka – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday deferred the submission of the compliance report over the arrest of BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia in a defamation case.
Law Minister Anisul Huq on Tuesday claimed that the power of the Supreme Court has slightly increased following the publication of the gazette notification of the disciplinary rules for the lower court judges.
Naogaon- Police on Tuesday arrested two members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Atrai upazila in the district.
Dhaka – Two cousins were chopped to death by miscreants at Duttapara of the city on Tuesday night.The deceased were identified as Akhtar Hossain, son of Mujibur Rahman, and his cousin Ashiqur Rhman, son of Habibur Rahman of the area.
Terming the disciplinary rules for lower court judges ‘unconstitutional’, BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Tuesday said the lower court judges went under the absolute control of the government due to the rules. “The disciplinary rules, the government…
Police detained the wife and parents-in-law of Akayed Ullah from the city’s Jigatala area on Tuesday for interrogation about the Bangladeshi suspect in Monday’s pipe bomb explosion beneath New York’s Times Square. Two of the detainees are Akayed’s wife Jannatul…
Dhaka – A sub-inspector of police sustained stab injury in an attack of robbers on Chatiain-Ratanpur road in Madhabpur upazila on Monday night.The injured was identified as Zia Uddin, sub-inspector of Chatiain Police Outpost.
By James A. Paul New York, Dec 8 (IPS) – Since the end of the Cold War, the UN Security Council has dramatically increased its activity and authority. Though the Council has exercised unprecedented global power, it has remained a…
Dhaka – The Special Judge Court-9 of Dhaka on Monday deferred the charge hearing of the Niko corruption case to January 15 of 2018.