Bahrain: At least 2,000 migrant workers living illegally in Bahrain are not covered under an amnesty that allows them to return home without penalties. These Bangladeshi men either have pending court cases, no legal documents, overstayed their visit visas, entered…
Security forces on high alert amid Jamaat-e-Islami’s countrywide shutdown
The Islamic State claims it now has a ‘regional leader’ in Bengal, meaning Bangladesh.
Dhaka, – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday pinned on robust Indo-Bangla relation in all socio-economic areas saying the two countries need to come forward with liberal mentality and sink narrowness to boost up ties. Bangladesh and India should strengthen…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government is taking all necessary steps for the modernisation and expansion of the armed forces which will continue in the future. The Prime Minister said this at a reception organised at Senakunja,…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has returned to Dhaka from London. The flight carrying her landed at Shahjalal International Airport around 5:15pm on Saturday, BNP leaders have said. Her Advisory Council member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, and Abdul Awal Mintu’s son…
Two senior opposition political leaders, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Mohammad Mojaheed, were hanged for crimes against humanity at the Dhaka Central Central Jail minutes past Saturday midnight. The execution was carried out after their mercy petitions were rejected by the…
After nearly six years of long trial, condemned war criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed were finally hanged at Dhaka Central Jail in the early hours of Sunday for the atrocities they had committed during the Liberation…
Armed Forces Day is bring observed in Bangladesh on Saturday November 21. On this day in 1971 the members of Army, Navy and Air force of the Bangladesh liberation war were fully operational and launched a coordinated offensive against the…
TAFF REPORTER The New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday called upon the Bangladesh government to halt the imminent executions of war crime convicted Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mujaheed and Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury.
STAFF REPORTER BNP considers that party’s standing committee member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was deprived of justice.
The family members of death-row war criminals BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed met them at Dhaka Central Jail on Thursday afternoon. Nine members of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s family, out of 15, entered the…
The full verdicts of the Supreme Court rejecting the review petitions of Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury were read out to the two war crimes convicts at Dhaka Central Jail on Thursday night.
An Italian citizen sustained bullet injuries in an attack by unknown miscreants at Mirzapur BRTC bus stand in Dinajpur town on Wednesday morning. The injured, Piyara Samio,50, is a physician of Kasba Missionary Hospital in Dinajpur.
Dhaka – Bangladesh and India on Tuesday agreed to share information on terrorists and insurgents through mutual understanding to eliminate terrorism and insurgency in the two neighbouring countries. “We both sides are on the same stance that we can eradicate…
Court Correspondent BNP leader MA Qaiyum’s younger brother MA Matin, accused in the Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder case denied to confess in the case on Tuesday.
Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud has called for joint efforts to harness the water resources in the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna basins in order to ensure greater wellbeing of the people of the region, official news agency BSS has…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday said the national security is now at stake as a ‘neo autocrat’ has been in power ‘without people’s mandate’.
Dhaka – The two-day Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF) 2015 ended in Dhaka on Monday with the government and the development partners pledging greater partnership in areas vital to achieve the targets set in the 7th Five Year Plan and the…
BNP has aired an apprehension that an inhuman disaster may hit the country’s jails as the government continues the ‘wholesale arrest’ of opposition leaders and activists. “Prisoners are being kept in jails across the country beyond their capacities. We fear…
France launched “massive” air strikes on the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were…
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will demand the upcoming UN climate talks in Paris be postponed by several months following a wave of deadly attacks on the city, his party sources said, news agency AFP reported on Sunday. The French…
Dhaka – A two-day Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF)-2015 began in the capital on Sunday with the government drawing attention of the development partners to its core development agenda, highlighting the economic achievements, macroeconomic indicators and the climate for investment, trade…
Dhaka – The prime accused in the sensational Narayanganj 7-murder case Nur Hossain was shifted to Kashimpur high security prison from Dhaka central jail on Sunday afternoon.
One of the attackers who killed 129 people in Paris has been identified by French investigators. French citizen Omar Ismail Mostefai was named by local media and a French parliamentarian. The 29-year-old had a criminal record and was known to…
A meeting of the Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF) will be held in Dhaka to underscore the need for foreign funding to implement sustainable development goals. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the two-day meet on Sunday, Economic Relations Division’s Senior…
Noted columnist Syed Abul Maksud said the move to set up 1320MW coal-fired power plant at Rampal adjacent to the Sundarbans in Bagerhat district is an attempt to put the Sundarbans in crossfire and criticised the governmen for the same.…
The near-simultaneous attacks in Paris that killed at least 128 people were an “act of war” organised by the Islamic State (IS) militant group, French President Francois Hollande says. He said the attacks, carried out by eight gunmen and suicide…
The Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 of Dhaka on Thursday sentenced Oishee Rahman to death for killing her father, Special Branch Police Officer Mahfuzur Rahman and her mother Swapna Rahman in 2013. Judge Syed Ahmed of the tribunal passed the order in…
Dhaka – Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder cases, was brought back home from India Thursday night. Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed Nur Hossain over to a Bangladesh joint team of police and Border Guard…