A local leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was shot to death by miscreants at Shyamnagar Bazar in Sadar upazila of Jessore on Tuesday, UNB news agency reported. The victim was identified as Idris Ali, 45, a leader of Hashimpur…
Category: Governance
HC rejects writ petition against constitutional provision of state religion
STAFF REPORTER Islam retained the status of state religion as per the eighth amendment to the constitution with the High Court yesterday rejecting a writ petition challenging the legality of the constitutional provision of state religion.
Case against DBBL officials for ATM card forgery
Court Correspondent A lawyer on Tuesday lodged a case against four people including Dutch Bangla Bank Limited Managing Director (MD) Shamsi Tabrez on the charge of taking away Tk 93,000 through ATM (Auto Trailer Machine) Card forgery.
Students call general strike in educational institutions Apr 3
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…
Petition for review of SC verdict against Nizami submitted
Dhaka – Convicted Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami on Tuesday filed a petition seeking review of the Supreme Court verdict upholding the International Crimes Tribunal judgment that sentenced him to death. Barrister Najib Momen, son of Nizami, who submitted the…
Court orders exhumation of Tonu’s body
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…
HC rejects writ challenging Islam as state religion
Dhaka – The High Court on Monday rejected a writ petition challenging the legality of Islam’s state religion status in the constitution. An HC bench, headed by Justice Naima Haider, passed the order when the writ was placed before it…
All airports will be upgraded
Dhaka – The Cabinet on Monday gave the final approval to the draft of ‘The Bangladesh Civil Aviation Authority Bill, 2016′, aiming to upgrade the country’s all airports to international standard ones.
5 JMB men get life for Aug 17 bomb attack
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.
Young man held with five gold bars in city
Dhaka – Police arrested a young man along with five gold bars at Kamalapur Railway Station in the city on Monday morning.
Bangladeshi killed in USA
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…
‘Punishing ministers a message for all’
The Supreme Court has said that its verdict punishing two Cabinet members for contempt is a warning for all over undermining the judiciary’s dignity. Food Minister Md Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq have been found…
Protest against Tanu murder spread ‘Pressure on family to confess’
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…
Suicide explosion leaves at least dead at Lahore park
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…
Cabinet to decide on two Bangladesh ministers’ fate: AG
Dhaka – Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Sunday said the cabinet will take a decision about the fate of two ministers who faced contempt of court charges as it is a matter of morality, UNB news agency reported. “It is…
Supreme Court fines two Bangladesh ministers Tk 50,000 each for contempt
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…
Brussels nuclear alert – security officer found dead
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…
Tonu killers will be tried: Asaduzzaman
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…
AL-backed panel wins Supreme Court Bar election
STAFF REPORTER Awami League-backed Sammilita Ainjibi Samannaya Parishad known as white panel won eight posts, including the president post while BNP-Jamaat-backed lawyers’ body Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Parishad known as blue panel bagged six posts, including the secretary post in the…
Pro-AL panel wins SCBA polls
Dhaka – Pro-Awami League grand alliance Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parisad has won the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections against the Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Forum backed by the BNP-Jamaat alliance.
Six suspects arrested in Brussels over attacks
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.
Radovan Karadzic convicted of genocide, sentenced to 40 years
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…
Singapore court sentences online editor for sedition
Bangkok, March 24, 2016 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a Singaporean court’s sentencing Wednesday of an Australian editor of a now-defunct independent Singaporean news website, and calls on authorities to stop jailing journalists and censoring websites. Ai Takagi,…
EC asks to file cases regarding anomalies in 51 polling stations.
The Election Commission has issued directives for the presiding officers concerned to lodge cases in connection with election irregularities in 51 polling stations. “The EC issued the directives to file cases regarding anomalies in 51 polling stations on Thursday,” Deputy…
Zia Charitasble Trust case date deferred TO Mar,31
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court on Thursday deferred the cross-examination of the Investigation Officer of the Zia Charitabe Trust graft case to March 31 in absence of the BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia.
Family meets death sentenced Nizami at Kashimpur Jail
Dhaka – Family members of convicted Jamaat-e-Islami leader Matiur Rahman Nizami met him at Kashimpur jail about 20 kilometres north of the capital on Thursday. The Super of Kashimpur Jail part-2 Proshanto Kumar Banik said Nizami’s wife Samsunnahar, his two…
N. Korean leader hails solid-fuel rocket success
Seoul – North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un hailed an “historic” advance in the country’s nuclear strike capability, with the successful test of a solid-fuel rocket engine, state media said Thursday. It was the latest in a string of claims by…
Brussels bomber’s suicide note found
Just moments before Brussels airport bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui detonated a deadly explosive package, he dumped a major clue into a nearby bin.
Three Brussels attackers identified, police hunt fourth
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…
BNP leader hacked to death in Jessore
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.