Director General (DG) of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benazir Ahmed today said terrorism and subversive activities have been reduced in the country as the law enforcers took action against them.
Category: Governance
28 Molotov cocktails recovered in Naogaon
Police recovered 28 Molotov cocktails from Par-Naogaon area beside Marchhula Girls’ High School in the district town on Tuesday night.
20 sued over C’nawabganj covered van arson attack
A case has been filed against 20 people in connection with Tuesday’s arson attack on a covered van at Kansat in Shibganj upazila that left its driver dead and helper injured.
4 injured a crude bomb blast at 14-Party rally in capital
At least four people, including a local Swechhasebak League leader, were injured as a crude bomb was exploded in a protest rally of the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance in the city’s Hazaribagh area on Wednesday. Police said miscreants blasted…
Court adjourns till 5 April upholding arrest warrant against Khaleda
A Dhaka Court on Wednesday upheld the arrest warrant it issued against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on February 25 but filed the petitions for withdrawal of the warrant and granting of bail before adjourning the proceesings till April 5.…
‘Khaleda to be in court if security, bail, safe return ensured’
The principal counsel for BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday said his client is ready to surrender to the trial court subject to ensuring adequate security, bail and safe return to her Gulshan office. ”We’re respectful to law… although we’re…
29 Bangladeshi nationals arrested on Laxmidari border
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 29 Bangladeshi nationals while they were entering the country through Laxmidari border point in Sadar upazila on Monday night, after going to India illegally.
Two trucks set afire in Joypurhat
Miscreants set two trucks afire in Puranapoil Railgate area on the Joypurhat-Hili road in Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Hearing for retracting Khaleda arrest warrant Wednesday
Hearing on two petitions of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for withdrawal of arrest warrant is scheduled to be held Wednesday. Special Judge-3 of Dhaka, Abu Ahmed Jamadar passed the order on Tuesday noon. He will hear the petitions at…
Report on Khaleda ‘killing 42 during blockade’ April 16
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Monday) deferred the deadline to April 16 for submitting an investigation report in the case filed against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and three others on charges of killing 42 people…
One sentenced to gallows for killing brother’s wife
A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced a man to death in a case filed for killing his brother’s wife after raping her nine years ago. Judge Tanjena Ismail of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 of Dhaka pronounced the…
Warrant issued for Khaleda’s office search in explosives case
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday evening ordered police to search the Gulshan office of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. Metropolitan Magistrate SM Masud Zaman of the CMM Court issued the order in a case filed…
Feni land office set ablaze
Miscreants torched a local land office at Radhanagar in Chhagalnaiya upazila early Thursday, the fifth day of the fresh 120-hour nationwide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade. Night guard of the office…
2 JCD leaders put on remand for three days
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Thursday) afternoon placed two central leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on a three-day remand each for interrogation.
Amnesty reports of lax inquiry, punishment of HR violations
Amnesty International, the global human rights watchdog in its annual report for 2014 has said. “The exact number of people who were forcibly disappeared was not known; some estimates suggested over 80. Of the documented cases of 20 people subjected…
6th year of BDR carnage Wednesday
The nation will remember the carnage at BDR headquarters at Pilkhana in the capital where 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed in 2009. Relatives of the martyrs, government high-ups, and Border Guard Bangladesh and army officials will pay…
Abdul Jabbar sentenced to prison unto death for war crimes
Former Member of Parliament from the Jatiya Party Abdul Jabbar has been awarded imprisonment till death for his crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 War of Liberation. ICT – 1 led by Justice Enayetur Rahim gave the verdict on…
Manna picked up Monday night. DB police ‘does not know’
Mahmudur Rahman Manna, the outspoken leader of the Nagorik Oikya has been picked up by some plainclothes people identifying themselves as Detetective Branch Police at about 3 am on Monday night, but Dhaka Metropolitan Police of which DB is a…
Dhaka, Delhi explore naval cooperation for maritime security
India wants to explore new avenues for naval cooperation with Bangladesh towards achieving comprehensive maritime security in the Bay of Bengal. Indian Navy chief Admiral RK Dhowan is already in city on a four-day visit and met President Abdul Hamid…
Sramik Dal leader killed in crossfire. ‘3 lynched’ in city, says police
Bullet-riddled bodies of four young men have been found in Dhaka, who police claim were lynched by locals during ‘sabotage attempts’. According to latest information, Wadud 35, one of the victims, was the president of the Mirpur No. 10 ward…
25 AL workers injured in Jamalpur rally crude bomb blast
At least 25 people including Mohila Awami League’s district unit president Rebeka Sultana, were injured as two crude bombs were blasted in a rally organised by the 14-party alliances in the town on Sunday afternoon. Witnesses said two crude bombs…
PM for speedy, exemplary trial of atrocities
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked for speedy and exemplary trial of the perpetrators of the recent petrol bomb attack and other atrocities on innocent people saying delaying the trial encouraged them for bigger occurrence. “Trial of the persons…
Bnp’s Swechchhasebok Dal leader hurt in Mymensingh Police firing
A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal was injured in police firing while trying to flee allegedly after hurling two crude bombs on the law enforcers at Town Hall More in front of the opposition leader Rawshan Ershad’s residence early…
Bnp affiliates JCD, Jubo Dal men killed in Barisal ‘shootout’
A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD)activist and a Jubo Dal man were killed in a reported ‘shootout’ with police in Agailjhara upazila of the district early Saturday. The deceased were identified as JCD man Tipu Hawlader, 26, and Jubo Dal functionary…
Kamaruzzaman filing review petition, no execution till time: Counsel
Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, sentenced to death for war crimes, will file review petition before the Supreme Court with the 15 days time limit to reconsider his conviction, according to his lawyer. “We are yet to receive the certified copy…
British lawyer for trial of war crimes against Biharis
British lawyer Geoffrey Robertson wants trial of some freedom fighters for alleged war crimes perpetrated against surrendered Pakistani troops and Urdu-speaking civilians locally called ‘Biharis’. “There are some severe allegations of war crimes against the Bengali freedom fighters ,” Robertson…
Death warrant for Kamaruzzaman issued, review petition likely
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-2) has issued the death warrant for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman who had earlier been convicted of war crimes. The warrant, wrapped with red cloth, was sent to the jail on Thursday afternoon. The three judges…
Argument against Ershad in graft case deferred again
A Dhaka court yesterday (Wednesday) deferred the argument in the case filed against Jatiya Party Chairman and the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy HM Ershad and others in the case filed for corruption in connection with the purchase of ruder for…
2 Jamaat-men killed, Juba Dal leader injured in ‘gunfights’
Two activists of Jamaat-e-Islami were killed in a reported ‘gunfight’ between their cohorts and police at Begatipara in Monirampur upazila of Jessore early Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Bazlur Rahman Bazlu,35, son of Nagar Ali, a resident of Joypur…
ICT-2 awards Moulana Abdus Sobhan death for war crimes
The International Crimes Tribunal – 2 has sentenced Jamaat Leader Moulana Abdus Sobhan to death in the verdict in the War Crimes trial against him on Wednesday. The ICT-2 led by its chairman Justice Obaidul Hasan gave the verdict. Two…