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A passenger ferry carrying up to 50 people sank in the river Meghna at Gazaria in Munshiganj Friday morning. bdnews24.com Narayanganj Correspondent reported the MV SM Sarash sank near Ismani Char around 8:00am after a sand-laden boat hit it, said…

Quazi Mohamamd Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis of Bangladesh pleaded guilty at a United States court as being involved in a plot to blow up the New York Federal Reserve building. The court will pronounce his sentence on May 30.

The ‘grand rally’ at Shahbagh intersection ended with a vow to spread the ongoing movement from Teknaf to Tetulia demanding death penalty for all war criminals, including Abdul Quader Molla, and a ban on the politics of Jamaat-e-Islami.

The Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown in greater Chittagong region for Saturday as the Islamist party was denied a rally in the port city.

The special privileges or division that Jamaat-e- Islami stalwart Abdul Quader Molla had been enjoying in jail has been revoked after the International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced him to life in prison for his war crimes in 1971.

People of all walks of life will stage a grand rally at Shahbagh Square at 3:00pm Friday to press home their demand of death penalty of Jamaat leader Quader Mollah for his involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s special aide and Awami League leader Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif was thrown bottles at in Shahbagh Thursday afternoon. bdnews24.com reporter said Hanif arrived Shahbagh at around 5:30pm, willing to speak at the mass gathering of mostly youths…

A Dhaka court has scrapped a plea for a sedition case against BNP chief Khaleda Zia over her Washington Times article as the plaintiff had not taken prior permission from the government before filing the case.

At least 60 Chhatra Shibir activists were held and 53 people including 10 cops injured in different parts of the country during Wednesday’s dawn-to-dusk hartal. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is observing hartal in protest against the verdict of its leader Abdul Quader…

Students at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) have demonstrated demanding death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami’s Assistant General Secretary Abdul Quader Molla.

The United Arab Emirates says four more Bangladeshi expatriate workers have been identified among the 22 killed in Monday’s road crash in that country. It was previously reported that there were 16 Bangladeshis among the 22 victims of the road…

The government will appeal against the verdict sentencing Jamaat-e-Islami’s Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla to life in jail within the 30-day deadline, an official said Wednesday.

The Election Commission has proposed geographical changes to 87 parliamentary constituencies out of 300 for the 10th national elections in a draft, said EC Secretariat’s Joint Secretary Biswas Lutfur Rahman.

Opposition BNP did not express their any reaction over the verdict of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 that sentenced Jamaat leader Quader Mollah to life term in prison.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday warned of tough action against those trying to cause disruptions for protecting the ‘war criminals’ active during 1971 Liberation War.

BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was released from the Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur on Tuesday afternoon – a day after the High Court granted him bail for six months in the last and the sixth arson case…

he dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami passed off across the country on Tuesday amid sporadic violence.

Confusion prevails over whether the prosecution can appeal to secure the maximum punishment of death sentence for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla who was awarded life in prison for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

The Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong general strike across the country for Wednesday to denounce the verdict against its Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla who got life term for his role in the War of Liberation in 1971.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Tuesday sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami’s Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla to life in jail for his role during the country’s War of Liberation against Pakistan in 1971.

A senior BNP leader says that his party does not support Jamaat-e-Islami’s demand to repeal the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), set up to try the suspected war criminals of 1971.

At least 22 people died and 25 others injured in an accident in Zakhir district in Al Ain of United Arab Emirates Monday morning when a bus carrying cleaning workers reportedly collided with a truck.

The second war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh will deliver its verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami’s Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla facing charges of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, tribunal’s Registrar AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud said on Monday.

The Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong nationwide strike for Tuesday to coincide with the expected verdict on its Assistant General Secretary Abul Quader Molla .

As many as 138 voyagers, including 127 Bangladeshi nationals, were taken to safety from a sinking wooden vessel, the Sri Lankan Navy said on Sunday. A post on its official website said that it took 20 hours for them to…

The first war crimes tribunal on Sunday granted the UK-based Economist another month to explain why measures would not be taken against them. Former chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal – 1, Justice Mohammad Nizamul Huq had ordered on Dec…