Category: Lead News

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will observe mass hunger strike across the country today (Sunday) protesting the killing, forced disappearance and abduction and fling of false cases against party senior leaders including chairperson Khaleda Zia and vice chairman Tarique Rahman. As…

Charging the ‘ruling party cadres’ with the abduction and killing of seven people in Narayanganj, BNP on Saturday alleged that the government has resorted to secret killing and abduction to make people averse to politics. “The ruling party cadres are…

Reiterating her government’s firm stance to construct the Padma Bridge with its own fund, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said there was a political game over financing of the country’s largest-ever bridge project. “There was a game over the…

Human Rights Commission Chairman Mizanur Rahman has called on the major political parties to stop blame game and take effective measures against murder and abduction. He was speaking at an event in Barguna on Saturday. The ruling Awami League and BNP…

Police on Saturday recovered the body of a man from the Shitalakhya River in Bandar area of the city, teetering on the edge due to frequent abductions and killings. Locals spotted the body around 1 pm and informed police who…

Eminent citizens of the city on Saturday expressed their grave concern over the rise in the incidents of abduction, forced disappearance and killing in recent times. They staged a human chain in front of the Sangsad Bhaban on Manik Mian…

Police have detained 12 persons from the house of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in a case of abduction and murder of seven men in Narayanganj, during a raid. Additional police superintendent Shahidul Islam said the three-hour raid started at…

Bangladesh Nationalist Party has asked its leaders and activists to take precautionary measures and follow a 10-point set of suggestions including not moving alone and avoiding unsafe areas considering the prevailing situation in the country. BNP acting secretary Mirza Fakhrul…

Bangladesh Navy has launched a fresh search operation for the missing Malaysian passenger aircraft, MH Flight 370, in the Bay of Bengal, following the suggestion by an Australian survey company that the wreckage of a plane might be found in…

The United Kingdom (UK) has welcomed Bangladesh’s endorsement of the Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan have announced their endorsement of the Declaration this week, launched as part of the UK’s Preventing Sexual…

Narayanganj District Lawyers Association will enforce a daylong hartal in the district for Sunday protesting the recent abduction and killing including Chandan Sarkar, a senior lawyer at Narayanganj District Judge’s Court. The bodies of Chandan and five others were found…

Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday announced a weeklong programme including hunger strike on May 8 protesting the recent abduction and killing including Chandan Sarkar. Vice chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council and president of SCBA Advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain…

Gono Forum chairman Dr Kamal Hossain has called for forming citizens committees in all thanas of the country to organise citizens for a nationwide movement against the ‘sick politics’ practised by the two main parties. “People want to see a…

A businessmen was reportedly kidnapped for ransom from Sanarpar in Shiddhirganj area on Thursday night, spreading panic in the city already reeling under abduction spree. The latest victim was identified as Syed Saiful Islam. Family sources said Saiful remained missing…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has called on the nation to stand up against abduction and forced disappearances at a May Day rally. She demanded that the government identify the criminals abducting people in the guise of police and RAB. “I…

Apparently holding BNP responsible for unleashing the recent secret killings, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called upon the BNP chief to shun the movement of clandestine attacks and return to the path of normal movement. “Why the country’s people…

Expressing deep concern over the growing incidents of killing and forced disappearance, Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Thursday said people are anxious and panicked as they have no security. “Everyone is scared and no one has peace in their…

Eight people were killed and 14 others injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Lalmonirhat, Sunamganj and Panchagarh districts on Thursday. Among them, four people were killed in Lalmonirhat, three in Sunamganj and one in Panchagarh districts. In Lalmonirhat,…

Slain councillor and panel mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation Narul Islam, whose decomposing body was recovered from the Shitalakhya river yesterday – three days on from his abduction with 4 associates – was laid to eternal rest Thursday morning. Following…

A group of agitating people on Thursday morning vandalized and set fire to the personal office of city councillor Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the case filed in connection with the abduction of slain city panel mayor Nazrul Islam…

The United States in its ‘Country Reports on Terrorism 2013’ says Bangladesh’s foreign and domestic policies are heavily influenced by the region’s major powers, particularly India. The report however lauded Bangladesh’s counterterrorism efforts as there had been no major terrorist…

Narayanganj District Bar Association on Thursday called a daylong hartal in the district for Sunday protesting the killings of seven people, including senior lawyer Chandan Sarker, after their abduction. Bar Association president Shakhawat Hossain told journalists that they called the…