Naudero: He was a 19-year-old Oxford undergraduate when his family named him chairperson of country’s oldest dynastic party – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). In the years that followed, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, now 26, has been groomed to take over the…
Former Bangladesh and Indian diplomats have called on their respective governments to train their focus on economic engagement and intensify security cooperation. Participating in a two-day first ever Bangladesh-India High Commissioners’ Summit organised by the international relations department of Dhaka…
H. E. Mahmoud EZZAT Geopolitics inevitably shaped Egypt’s foreign policy. Egypt occupies a strategic position as a land bridge between two continents and a link between two principal waterways; The Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. It must be therefore…
The Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has brought the G20 summit to a close by detailing economic pledges agreed by the world leaders. He said the package, if implemented, would boost global economic growth over five years by 2.1% more…
A teacher of Rajshahi University was stabbed to death by some miscreants in Bihash area in the city on Saturday. The deceased was identified as AKM Shafiul Islam, 40, a professor of Sociology Department of the university. Sources at Rajshahi…
Website affiliated with Islamic State says leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has instructed his followers to start minting coins Islamic State says its leader has ordered that the organisation start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency, the…
Geneva – Evidence of the use of incendiary weapons in Ukraine and Syria highlights the need for stricter law to govern these weapons, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today with Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic.…
A young man was killed after being hit by a stray bullet fired accidentally from the gun of a local Awami League leader at Palerkhanda village in Morelganj upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Masum Sardar,27, motorcycle driver…
Police arrested the son of former Awami League MP Khan Tipu Sultan of Jessore from city’s Dhanmondi area on charge of killing his wife on Thursday night. The arrestee was identified as Humayun Sultan Sadat, a resident of Dhanmondi area.
By Nava Thakuria The working journalists, more particularly the reporters covering insurgency related incidents, always face a two-edged sword. Often they face brickbats (reader threats) from both the insurgents turned terrorists and also the authority in power that implements counter-insurgency…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said that PM’s adviser HT Imam’s reported assurance about arranging government jobs for Chhatra League activists has exposed the government’s extreme politicisation and nepotism. “The government has already politicised the…
Criticising the role of law enforcers in the incidents of ‘crossfire’, chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Prof Mizanur Rahman said on Thursday the state must ensure human rights even to offenders. He said this while addressing a…
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in a supplementary charge-sheet submitted on Thrsday indicted eleven persons including BNP leader Harris Chowdhury, former political secretary to the party chief Khaleda Zia, the the Mayor of Sylher Ariful Haque Chowdhury, in connection with…
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday condemned fugitive mayor of Nagarkanda municipality, Faridpur and local BNP leader Zahid Hossain Khokon to death for crimes against humanity, including genocide, during the Liberation War in 1971. Justice M Enayetur Rahim, chairman of…
US President Barack Obama is to hold talks with Myanmar’s President Thein Sein, hours after accusing his government of backsliding on reforms. Mr Obama is in Nay Pyi Taw for the East Asia summit, which follows Wednesday’s Asean meeting. In…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the members of East Bengal Regiment (EBR) of Bangladesh Army to play their strong role with professionalism and efficiency in building the nation along side protecting national security and integrity. The Prime Minister…
Two recent remarks made by the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Dr. Mizanur Rahman have irked a section of the police administration because those challenged the police’s discretion to shoot at people on the charge of being extremists…
A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued warrant of arrest against Krishak Sramik Janata League president Kader Siddiqui in a defamation case for calling former Minister MK Alamgir a ‘Razakar’. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh passed the order as…
The United States government has called for the execution of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Md Kamaruzzman to be halted until the proceedings against him ‘can be shown’ to have met the country’s ‘domestic and international obligations,’ leading daily NewAge has reported.…
A verdict of negligence rather than homicide on three senior officers of a South Korean ferry that sank in April killing more than 300 has angered many victims’ relatives as too lenient. “Do you know how many children are dead?”…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the relations between the two countries will get furhter boost if BNP comes to power,” he said while addressing a seminar at Jatiya Press Club in the city. Addressing a…
Russia has expressed interest to launch direct air links with Bangladesh. Russian Ambassador in Bangladesh Alexander A Nikolayev showed his interest in this matter when he met Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Tuesday. It has been…
Two ‘bandits’ have died in an alleged encounter with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at the Sundarbans. Enamul Hawlader alias Daroga, 34, said to be the head of bandit group ‘Daroga Bahini’ and his associate ‘Saiful’, 24, were killed, RAB…
A security guard named Belayet Hossain (50) was shoot and taka 2 lakh 80 thousand was robbed at Hajipara under Ramna Thana at around 2:30 pm on Monday. Another security guard Abul Bashar rescued Belayet and took him to Dhaka…
The Election Commission has registered more than 4.5 million fresh voters in 511 out of the 514 upazilas and thanas across Bangladesh. The figure of new voters is commensurate with the EC’s estimation of finding 46 lakh voters across the…
DB police have caught a guy named Sheikh Mozaffor Bin Mohsin (29) in connecgtion with the murder of Nurul Islam Faruki (60). Faruki was an anchor of religious programs in various private TV channels. Police caught Mozaffor from the premises…
A sedition case was lodged with a Jessore court on Sunday against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for making derogatory remarks about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Advocate SM Afzal Hossain, organising secretary of district Awami League, filed the complaint with…
A court here on Sunday sent a former assistant judge, who is also an alleged leader of banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh, to jail in a case filed in connection with the recovery of jihadi books from his Chittagong…
New York – The death sentence against Muhammed Kamaruzzman, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party convicted of war crimes during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, should immediately be stayed. Kamaruzzman should be granted a right to appeal against the death…
The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain in two weeks why the 16th amendment of the Constitution, which empowered the Parliament to remove Supreme Court judges, should not be declared illegal and unconstitutional. In response…