Outgoing US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on Wednesday said political parties in Bangladesh need to use their political space peacefully to strengthen democracy. “Of course, the political parties need to use political space peacefully…we discussed the important role…
A four-day high level border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Myanmar Police Force (MPF) began at BGB’s Peelkhana headquarters here on Wednesday. BGB Additional Directorate General and Northeast Region Commander M Latiful Haidar is leading a 16-member Bangladesh…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday strongly condemned the killings of over hundred civilians, including school children, in a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. In a condolence message, Hasina said, “Such barbaric and heinous killings have shocked…
Bangalee settlers on Tuesday torched at least 13 houses and some shops of hill people over damaging a pineapple orchard at Chouddamile in Naniarchar under Rangamati district on Tuesday. Locals said the Bangalee settlers went berserk in the morning after…
A local Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal leader, his wife and their two daughters have been murdered at Lobonkota village in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district. Police recovered their bodies on Tuesday morning. Sramik Dal is the labour associate of the main…
An extraorfinary general meeting (EGM) of the National Press Club on Monday decided to hold the bianniel general meeting and election of its managing committee by 31 March next, as against the schedule to get it done by 30 December,…
Migrant workers’ rights activist Anis Hidayah received the 2014 Yap Thiam Hien human rights award for being “the voice for millions of Indonesian migrant workers”, as described by the award committee. One of the judges, lawyer and human rights activist…
The High Court on Monday allowed an anticipatory bail for four weeks to national cricketer Rubel Hossain in a rape case. An HC bench comprising Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Haque and Justice M Akram Hossain Chowdhury passed the order following…
A farmer was killed and six people sustained bullet wounds as extortionists opened fire during extortion in Daudkandi upazila on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as M Ishque Miah, 60, son of late Lal Miah of Krishnapur village in…
A transport trader was shot to death by miscreants over extortion at Ghorashal in Polash upazila in Narsingdi district early on Friday. The deceased was identified as Milon Miah, 40, a resident of Phuldirtek area in the upazila. Victim’s relatives…
CIA Director John Brennan has defended the agency’s post-9/11 interrogation methods but admitted some techniques were “harsh” and “abhorrent”. Speaking at CIA headquarters, he said some officers acted beyond their authority but most did their duty. A scathing Senate report…
Tanya Lokshina “If a rebel kills a policeman or another person, his family will be immediately expelled from Chechnya with no right to return, and their house will be razed to the ground.” These were the words that Chechnya’s leader,…
Washington, DC – The US Senate Intelligence Committee’s report summary on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detention and interrogation program is a powerful denunciation of the agency’s extensive and systematic use of torture, Human Rights Watch said today. The 525-page…
Kazi Golam Rasul, trial judge in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case, died of old-age complications in Dhaka on Thursday morning. He was 73. He breathed his last at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the United Hospital in…
John H. Knox Over 70 human rights experts of the United Nations, including the special rapporteurs on the rights to food, health, water, and an adequate standard of living, as well as the special rapporteurs on the rights of indigenous…
The World Human Rights Day was observed in the country on Wednesday as elsewhere across the globe. The UN General Assembly proclaimed December 10 as Human Rights Day in 1950 with a view to bringing to the attention ‘of the…
The World Human Rights Day was observed in the country on Wednesday as elsewhere across the globe. The UN General Assembly proclaimed December 10 as Human Rights Day in 1950 with a view to bringing to the attention ‘of the…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday framed charges against 13 BNP leaders including Sultan Salauddin and Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel. Magistrate Md Mahbubur Rahman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order on Wednesday afternoon.
The internal probe by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has blamed three of its former officers for the murder of seven people in Narayanganj, including City Corporation Councillor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar. Rab unit submitted its…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka court on Wednesday issued arrest warrant for Senior BNP Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman in a defamation case for saying Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ‘Pakbandhu’, friend of Pakistan. Magistrate Ataul Haque of the…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that now the human rights in the country is not only under threat but also on the verge of ruination. “The government itself is violating the human rights,” he said…
Customs intelligence officials recovered 43 kilograms gold, worth Tk 21.50 crore, from the freight unit of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka early Wednesday. The 43 gold bars, each weighing one kg, were kept hidden in a garment accessories parcel…
The High Court has ordered a change in the probe committee formed to investigate the Narayanganj seven-murder incident. Additional Secretary of Ministry of Public Administration Md Abdul Hakim has been appointed the committee’s new chief. Seven men, including former Narayanganj…
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Tuesday said it is not possible to arrange polls to bifurcated Dhaka City Corporation in January next. “Why should I hold election in January? We’ll need more time to take our preparations. Time…
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said Bangladesh-India relations were elevated to a whole new paradigm with the visit of the Bangladesh Prime Minister to New Delhi in 2010 and the subsequent visit by the Indian Prime Minister to Dhaka…
A senior US official has apparently suggested that the military and police had better not work together, as they now do at RAB – but if they have to, there should be adequate oversight and accountability. The US assistant secretary…
Outgoing Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday. The hour-long meeting that began around 8:30pm was held at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office.
A member of a terror group was arrested after he was injured in a gunfight between police and his group at Latifpur village in Sadar upazila early Monday. The injured was identified as Rasel, a member of notorious ‘Jisan Bahini’…
Paltan Police Station of the city on Monday submitted the charge sheet to a Dhaka court in a sedition case filed against BNP Vice-Chairman Sadek Hossain Khoka. Tofail Ahmed, Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) of Paltan Police Station and also the Investigation Officer…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul yesterday said if voted to power, the BNP would hold trials of those involved in enforced disappearances on charge of crimes against humanity. “The crimes perpetuated by those in 1971 during the war of…