NEW DELHI – One of hundreds of attacks reported in New Delhi each year, the gang rape and murder of a medical student caught Indian authorities and political parties flat-footed, slow to see that the assault on a private bus…
Category: Governance
Plea to transfer Biswajit killing case to ICT
A petition has been filed to transfer the case of Biswajit Das killing in International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
ACC sues 5 companies over Sonali Bank scam
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sued five organisations for misappropriating Tk 3.5 billion from the largest state-owned commercial bank, Sonali Bank Ltd. The ACC has filed 26 cases with the Ramna Police Station on Tuesday, its spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya…
School Nurse grieves Connecticut carnage
ABC News Blogs via Yahoonews Crouched in fear underneath her desk, Sally Cox, the Sandy Hook Elementary School nurse, watched gunman Adam Lanza through a small hole holding computer wires as he walked into the school’s office and faced her…
Don’t report Skype chat, ICT asks media
bdnews24.com The International Crimes Tribunal-II on Thursday barred the media from publishing or broadcasting anything related to reported conversation between former Chairman of the first tribunal and a Brussels-based legal expert. The order came at the first sitting of the…
HC show cause Amar Desh
bdnews24.com A High Court bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday sought explanations why orders will not be issued to detain and try those behind the publication of an alleged conversation between a former ICT judge and an expatriate legal…
Police show 4 arrested over Biswajit’s murder
Police on Thursday informed a Dhaka court that they had arrested four suspects allegedly involved in the murder of Biswajit Das. But Home Minister M K Alamgir insisted that 11 arrests have been made in this connection so far. The…
Justice Nizam resigns as ICT chair
The War Crimes Tribunal-1 Chairman Justice Mohammed Nizamul Huq resigned on Tuesday in the wake of a controversy over his reported Skype conversation with an expatriate war crimes expert.
ICT ‘has some explaining to do’
London: ON 6th DECEMBER 2012 the presiding judge of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, Mohammed Nizamul Huq, passed an order requiring two members of The Economist to appear before the court, demanding that they explain how we have come by e-mails…
Death threat on 26 magistrates!
Agency Some unidentified miscreants on Saturday afternoon issued death threats to 26 judges of the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistracy by cutting their veins.
Bridge fund on fair probe: WB, Muhith surprised
Agency The WB Dhaka office on Saturday issued a statement saying the bank will proceed with support for the Padma Bridge only if the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) launches a full and fair investigation based on evidence of corruption under the…
‘Abul Hasan recommended, not me’
Former Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain has admitted of receiving recommendation from former State Minister for Foreign Affairs Abul Hasan Chowdhury to appoint Canadian firm SNC Lavalin as Padma bridge project consultant. But he claimed that he did not put…
CDA probe team yet to start work
The investigation committee of the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has failed to begin its probe over the collapse of the Bhaddarhat flyover even after four of the seven working days given to it for the submission of the report have…