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Human rights group Odhikar Secretary Advocate Adilur Rahman Khan was sent to the jail after he was produced to Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court on Tuesday afternoon.

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi garment worker who spent 108 days in a coma after being badly injured in one of the world’s worst industrial disasters has died, officials said on Monday.

BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia shared her ideas with the US Ambassador to Dhaka Dan W Mozena on how she intends to lead Bangladesh if the opposition coalition is voted to power in the next national elections.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to enforce a 48-hour countrywide hartal on today, protesting the government’s conspiracy to annihilate the party.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said the government will be held responsible if any unconstitutional force captures power, and urged people to stay alert. 

The prosecution on Monday filed an application with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking a ban on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ‘for ends of complete justice ‘as the International Crimes Tribunals in its judgments described it a terror outfit. The…

The European Union diplomatic missions to Bangladesh on Monday said they were ‘closely monitoring’ the case of detained Adilur Rahman Khan and that “it is essential that no harm comes to him”.          

Dhaka – Government and non-governmental offices, banks and newspaper offices reopened on Sunday amidst festival fever after a three-day holiday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.

DHAKA: At least 91 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a series of car bombs that rocked Baghdad and other Iraqi cities amid Eid al-Fitr celebrations, an interior ministry official said.

DHAKA – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the people to stay alert so that the undemocratic force does not come to power and play ducks and drakes with the fate of the people by taking advantage of differences…

Dhaka – Comparing the government’s ‘billboard politics’ with the culture of char capture, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Monday asked the government to seek apology to people for this and urged it to compensate the affected billboard…

BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia will meet her party’s policymakers and leaders of the 18-Party alliance to formulate fresh programmes to press ahead with the opposition movement demanding a nonpartisan administration to oversee the next general election.

DHAKA: The Human Rights Forum (HRFB) has condemned the arrest of Adilur Rahman Khan, Secretary of Odhikar, former Deputy Attorney General and an advocate of the Supreme Court. He was arrested on 10 August by the Detective Branch of Dhaka…

DHAKA – A court today put Odhikar Secretary Adilur Rahman on a five-day remand in connection with his “controversial report’ saying 61 people were killed in Dhaka siege programme of Hefajat-e-Islam.

Four Bangladeshi nationals were arrested by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Shillong on Friday when they were reportedly smuggling a huge quantity of explosives to Bangladesh, the Press Trust of India (PTI) wrote on Saturday quoting official sources.

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia demanded unconditional release of Adilur Rahman Khan, secretary of Human Rights organisation Odhikar.

Secretary of human rights watchdog Odhikar, Adilur Rahman Khan Subhro has been arrested for allegedly distorting facts about the May 5  drive against Hifazat-e Islam activists at Dhaka’s Motijheel area.

Dhaka – At least 14 people were killed and 91 others injured in separate road accidents in seven districts on Saturday. The districts are Gaibandha, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Magura, Manikganj, Faridpur and Joypurhat. Of them, deaths in the accidents were reported…

Imphal – A discussion session on the proposed construction of Tipaimukh Dam organised under the aegis of United NGOs Mission-Minipur (UNM-M) at Manipur Press Club here on August 8 unanimously resolved to press the concerned authority to reconsider and revoke…

A father and son have been found living in the jungle more than 40 years after they fled US bombing during the Vietnam War.

Dhaka – BNP chairperson and opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Friday asked the government to call the national election under a non-party and neutral caretaker government immediately to test its popularity instead of expending ‘public money’ in the electoral campaign.

Dhaka – Seeking people’s support for her party’s reelection, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged all to judiciously cast their votes in favour of honest, patriot and pro-development candidates in the next general election.

The Jatiya Party Chairman has accused the ruling Awami League of ‘hijacking’ Dhaka’s billboards to highlight the government’s various achievements with the next Parliament election just around the corner.

A federal judge Friday sentenced Quazi Mohammad Nafis, 22, to 30 years in prison for plotting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve building after hearing the Bangladeshi man beg for leniency, saying he had been friendless and led…

Kishoregonj – The historic Sholakia Eidgah of the district hosted the country’s biggest congregation of Eid-ul-Fitr on Friday.

Dhaka – Muslims all over the country are celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr joining their beloved ones in a variety of indoor and outdoor activities. Celebrations of Eid began after Eid prayers in mosques and Eidgahs (open-air congredation grounds) following a month of…