London (AP/UNB) – Britain’s treasury chief says he expects America’s next president to be a woman. Guess who? In an unusual diplomatic departure, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne offered his coy take Sunday on the race between leading Democratic…
The Supreme Court Sunday overturned a High Court verdict that acquitted housing and public works minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain from a graft case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission in 2007. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the government will amend the Land Reform Act, 2001 to gear up the activities of the CHT Land Reform Commission, unb news agency reported. “We’re constituting and reconstituting the Land Reform…
BNP on Sunday slammed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad for his remark that the fourth phase of the Union Parishad (UP) election was fair, saying his statements and activities sound like of a clown. “The entire nation was…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will have to be condemned to death for burning people to death in the name of a movement as Jamaat leaders were sentenced to death for their war crimes, said Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on…
Dhaka – BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday urged Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy toprove that he has no involvement in the allegation of siphoning off Tk 2,500 crore, unb news agency reported. “Khaleda Zia…
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Friday said the government will follow all legal procedures for executing the verdict against Matiur Rahman Nizami sentences to death for war crimes, unb news agency reeported.
Dhaka – Parshuram Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) HM Rakib Haider was assaulted allegedly by a local Awami League leader and his men for not showing respect to him, unb news agency reported.
BNP on Friday questioned whether Law Minister Anisul Huq has committed a contempt of court by calling illegal a High Court verdict that declared illegal the 16th amendment to the constitution.
Terming historical the High Court verdict that declared the 16th constitutional amendment illegal BNP on Friday said it has strengthened people’s confidence in the judiciary . Dhaka, UNB news agency reported.
Family members of death-row war criminal Matiur Rahman Nizami met him at Kashimpur Central Jail part-2 in Gazipur on Friday. Jail sources said six members of Nizami’s family-his wife Samsunnahar Nizami, two sons– Barrister Najib Momen and Khadiza Mohsina, daughter-in-laws…
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called a dawn to dusk countrywide hartal for Sunday protesting the Supreme Court verdict that upheld death penalty awarded to the party’s chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his 1971 war crimes. Jamaat acting ameer Makbul Ahmad and…
Dhaka – The High Court on Thursday declared the 16th amendment establishing Parliament’s power to remove the Supreme Court judges illegal and contradictory to the national Constitution. Noting that parliament members cannot go against the party decision as per the…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a review petition paving the way for the execution of Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for crimes against humanity committed during the War of Liberation in 1971.
Court Correspondent The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Thursday rejected the plea of veteran journalist Shafik Rehman in a case filed for his alleged involvement in a plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb…
Dhaka – Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour countrywide hartal for Sunday protesting the Supreme Court order upholding its ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami’s death penalty.In a jointly statement, Jamaat acting ameer Makbul Ahmad and acting secretary general Dr Shafiqur Rahman announced…
Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) unit in Mymensingh used the university buses, violating the university’s rule, for attending a freshers’ reception programme arranged by the Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will deliver its final verdict Thursday on a review petition filed by war crimes convict and Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami seeking reconsideration of his death penalty for wartime offences. The four-member bench…
Sylhet -A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal was sent to jail following his arrest in two cases filed over violence on Tuesday. Police arrested Abdul Kaiyum, acting general secretary of JCD of Bishwanath upazila unit and the convener of…
Gazipur – Suspended Gazipur City Corporation Mayor MA Mannan has been put on a three-day remand in two cases filed for sabotage.Senior Judicial Magistrate Abdul Hye granted a one-day remand when police produced Mannan before the court on Wednesday seeking…
Court Correspondent Police submitted two more charge sheets naming 43 BNP and Jamaat leaders and activists, including BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in a sabotage case filed with Paltan Police Station of the city.
New York (AP/UNB) – Republican front-runner Donald Trump rehashed unsubstantiated claims Tuesday that his rival Ted Cruz’s father has links to President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. In a telephone interview broadcast by Fox News on Tuesday, Trump…
Criticising the Prime Minister’s son for what he said making indecent remarks about their party chief, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday said Khaleda Zia talked about Tk 2,500 core involving Sajeeb Wazed Joy based on…
Police on Tuesday pressed charges against 43 leaders and activists of the then 19-party alliance, including BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in a case filed with Paltan Police Station in 2014.
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has branded BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia as a liar and thief, and asked her not to malign Bangabandhu’s grandson, unb news agency reported. Joy, also the Prime Minister’s ICT affairs…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Monday deferred the date for submission of the probe report in the case filed against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and three others over the death of 42 people during last…
Dhaka – The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Monday pressed charges against some 29 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Chittagong University (CU) over the killing of its student Taposh Sarkar in a bcl factional clash.
BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Monday alleged that arrest of Shafik Rehman has opened the skeleton of inside the cupboard. “The people were unaware many things about Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy. But now they came…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the hacking of money from Bangladesh central bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will have no impact on the country’s economy in the long run, unb news…
Dhaka – Accusing the government of plundering public money in the name of development, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said the ruling Awami League siphoned off Tk 30,000 crore over the last seven years, unb news agency reported.