Category: Lead News

The protesters who continued their sit-in for 24th straight day celebrated immediately after International Crimes Tribunal had awarded death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee Thursday afternoon.

At least 50 people including cops were killed and over 100 injured in clashes erupted in eleven districts immediately after Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee had been sentenced to death on Thursday.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 led by ATM Fazle Kabir passed the verdict against Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedee (then called Delwar Hossain Sikdar, an allegation that Sayedee rejects) awarding him death by hanging on Thursday.

The protesters of Ganajagaran Mancha will submit a memorandum to the Home Minister to reinforce their demand for arrest of Bengali daily Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman for allegedly provoking communal hatred through his newspaper.

Three committees will be formed to investigate the overnight fire at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair at the Bangla Academy premises.

President Mohammad Zillur Rahman on Monday approved setting up of a Supreme Judicial Council to investigate a High Court judge for his alleged smear campaign against the slain Shahbagh protester Ahmed Rajib Haider.

On February 25-26 in 2009, unruly BDR soldiers took over the BDR headquarters– Pilkhana, killed 74 people 57 army officers among them including the Director-General. They also fired on some civilians, held many of their officers hostage, vandalized property and…

Khelafat Majlish has called a daylong hartal for Monday in Manikganj district protesting deaths four people in clash clash with cops during Sunday’s hartal.

Police on Sunday arrested Farabi Shafiur Rahman allegedly for threatening the Imam with death in a Facebook posting for administering burial ceremony for slain Shahbagh uprising activist and blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider.

The Awami League-led government had no plans to ban all religion-based political parties, its Presidium Member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim said on Sunday.

At least four people were killed, more than 70 injured and 42 others held during countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal called by 12 like-minded islamist parties on Sunday.

The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) car rally that was flagged off at Kolkata on Friday has entered Bangladesh and is heading for Dhaka, amidst security worries. The organisers say they are worried about the security situation in Bangladesh following the violence on…

The main opposition BNP on Saturday extended its support to Sunday’s countrywide dawn-to-dusk shutdown (hartal)  being enforced by 12 Islamist and like-minded parties.

Thousands of people Saturday took oath to resist Sunday’s nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike called by various Islamist outfits.

After widespread clashes with the law enforcers across Bangladesh on Friday, 12 Islamist and like-minded parties called a country-wide shutdown for Sunday alleging police obstructions to their programme.

At least four people were killed and 281 others including cops and journalists injured during nationwide clash between workers of 12 like-minded Islamist parties and cops on Friday. The clashes ensued as police obstructed process

Opposition BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed said BNP will set up ‘ Gonotranta’ ( Democracy) stages across the country with a view to establish democracy, rule of law and freedom of judiciary. He came up with the discloser…

Demonstrators from the sit-in at Shahbagh on Thursday gave the government a Mar 26 deadline to start the process of trying and banning Jamaat-e-Islami.

DHAKA: Opposition BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said “a Baksal ghost” has ridded upon the government back.

DHAKA: The nation observed the International Mother Language Day (Amar Ekushey), paying tribute to the language movement martyrs, who laid down their lives for recognition of Bangla as an official language. In the first hour of the day, Prime Minister…