A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of two cases filed by the BIRDEM General Hospital and relatives of a patient who died there during treatment. Metropolitan Magistrate Mizanur Rahman ordered judicial investigations into the cases on Sunday. A case was…
A court here on Sunday framed charges against six people, including Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, in two cases filed in connection with the bomb attack on the Awami League office at Chashara on June 16, 2001 that…
The High Court on Sunday directed authorities concerned not to conduct medical tests on any rape victim by male doctors at hospitals across the country. Passing the order, an HC bench comprising Justice Quazi Reza Ul Hoque and Justice ABM…
Likening the current government with Hitler, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said it must step aside forthwith and be made accountable to the people of the country. “Your (govts’) days are numbered, no matter how much efforts you will…
Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Saturday urged all to free the history of Bangladesh Liberation War and politics from adulteration. “Like food adulteration, many are trying to make efforts through falsehood to adulterate the history of the 1971 Liberation. I…
Environmentalists and Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club officials are at loggerheads over the possession of the Dhanmondi Eight playground. The environmentalists are saying the club is trying to take control of the ground and demand that it be made available for…
A faction of the Bangladesh Online Blogger and Activist Network (BOAN) has ‘removed’ Imran H Sarker, from the post of Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson. Animesh Rahman, Charbak, Bangal and Kaniz Aklima Sultana were present when the decision was announced at a…
Two left-leaning parties on Saturday called for movement so India allows Bangladesh its fair share of water from the Teesta River. They alleged that Bangladesh is not getting the fair share of waters of the common rivers, including Teesta, because…
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s bizarre demand that Bangladesh should compensate India with land for the alleged influx of its citizens to Indian state of Assam has evoked sharp reactions in the state. As expected, Congress and minority leaders in the…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is going to organise a ‘long-march’ programme towards the Teesta river on Apr 22. The party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told a media briefing on Wednesday that they would march to Nilphamari’s Jaldhaka…
Ganajagaran Manch has alleged that the government wants to hang up the process of war crimes trial. Speaking at a rally at Shahbagh on Friday, spokesperson Imran H Sarker said: “The people are concerned about what is happening centring the…
Businessman Abu Bakar Siddique, husband of green activist Syeda Rizwana Hasan, was freed by the abductors 35 hours after his abduction but the abductors could not be traced nor could the motive behind his abduction be debunked till Friday afternoon.…
Small traders, especially fish, fruits, vegetables and traders and food vendors, are facing a surge in extortion demands by a section of corrupt law enforcers and different political elements to do their business in the capital. Sources said small traders…
Green activist Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband and businessman Abu Bakar Siddique, who was freed on Thursday midnight from captivity of the kidnappers, yesterday said he still feels insecure. “I could not think that I would be able to return alive.…
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said that prominent environment lawyer Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband Abu Bakar Siddique was abducted by the very people who had carried away BNP Organising Secretary M Ilyas Ali. He made the allegation…
At least 12 local guides have been killed after an avalanche on the slopes of Mount Everest, Nepali officials say. The avalanche struck around 06:45 local time (01:00 GMT) in an area known as the “popcorn field”, just above Everest…
Businessman Abu Bakar Siddique , who was set free by the abductors after 35 hours of abduction, was taken to the office of Superintendent of Police here on Friday morning. A police pick-up van took AB Siddique to the SP…
The local administration of Saint Martin’s Island has temporarily banned tourists from swimming in the Bay of Bengal. The decision follows a tragedy at the island that took the lives of four private university students when they went swimming last…
The High Court will deliver its order on Sunday on a revision petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking to quash the trial court indictment orders against her in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases.…
Bangladesh’s exports earnings have reached $22.24 billion, showing a 13 percent rise in the first nine months of the current 2013-2014 financial year over $19.68 billion earned in the corresponding period the previous fiscal. The exports earnings reached to the…
Voicing utter dismay over the non-rescue of its missing leader M Ilias Ali in two years even after the Prime Minister’s assurance, BNP on Thursday vowed to wage a united strong movement to “take revenge on the government for his…
The alliance of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) jointly launched their three-day ‘Teesta march’ after a rally in front of the National Press Club on Thursday afternoon. The CPB-BSD jointly orgainsed the ‘Teesta March’ programme…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday morning paid glowing homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing floral wreath at the portrait of the great leader at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum marking the historic 17th April-Mujibnagar…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage a two-day long march towards the Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari on April 22-23 demanding due share of the river water from India and protesting the government’s failure. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam…
The High Court on Wednesday started hearing on a revision petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking to quash the trial court indictment orders against her in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. An HC…
Even though BNP organising secretary M Ilias Ali has been traceless for the last two years, his family members and party colleagues are still hopeful of his safe return. Two years back on April 17, 2012, former BNP MP Ilias…
Expressing deep concern over the abduction of Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday night demanded the government take immediate steps to rescue him for his safe return to his family. In a statement, Khaleda also demanded…
Assailants have kidnapped businessman Abu Bakar Siddiqui from Narayanganj in broad daylight on Wednesday. He is the husband of Rizwana Hasan, executive director of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) and winner of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award. Siddiqui, 47,…
The High Court has accepted appeals of the four death row convicts including Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami against the verdict of the 2004 Chittagong arms haul case. The bench of Justice Mohammad Rezaul Haque and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore…
Two people have died and more than 100 remain unaccounted for after a ferry carrying 476 people capsized and sank off South Korea. So far, 368 people have been rescued, local reports say. A major rescue operation is under way,…