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The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has questioned the trial process of Jamaat-e-Islami’s guru and a war-crimes convict Ghulam Azam, an observation which has been viewed by Law Minister Shafique Ahmed as interference in a subjudiced matter.

A police officer and his wife were found dead at their residence in the city’s Chamelibagh area on Friday evening.

Egyptian authorities on Thursday significantly raised the death toll from clashes the previous day between police and supporters of the ousted Islamist president, saying more than 500 people died and laying bare the extent of the violence that swept much…

Police have arrested Tangail’s Madhupur Municipality Mayor and BNP leader Shahidul Islam, better known as Sarkar Shahid. Shahid is the second elected mayor affiliated to the BNP arrested in the last few months. Another such mayor faces charges of war…

BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s grandchildren have wished her on her ‘birthday’ on Thursday.

In the wake of opposition BNP’s threat to wage a tough movement to realise its demand, Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Thursday said no movement could bring any amicable solution. 

Police arrested four local leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from the city’s Gopibagh area on Wednesday night.

The hope for holding the election to bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations any time soon fade as the polls process lost way in fresh bureaucratic tangles. The elections to the two city corporations — Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka…

The United Nations voiced concern about the recent arrest of a prominent human rights defender in Bangladesh and urged the Government to secure his immediate release.

War crimes accused Nagarkanda municipality mayor in Faridpur Zahid Hossain alias Khokon will be tried in absentia as he failed to appear before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 within the stipulated time.

The second day of the 48-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, passed off amid stray incidents of clashes, vandalism and crude bomb blasts across the country, leaving a Shibir leader dead.

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has said it has got a hit list containing the names of 12 eminent people, including three ministers, prepared by a radical Islamist network, ‘Ansar Ullah Bangla Team’.

A Dhaka court on Wednesday deferred until September 17 the recording of the depositions of the witnesses against 46 leaders and activists of the 18-party alliance, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in an arson attack case.  

Richard Branson and Kerry Kennedy are among global leaders urging Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed not to seize control of the microfinance lender founded by Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus.

By Yasmine Saleh and Tom Finn

The United States has expressed its concern over the arrest of rights activist Adilur Rahman Khan and demanded his immediate release.

In the latest reshuffle in the judiciary, 13 Additional District Judges and equivalent officials and five Joint District Judges and equivalent officials have been transferred.  

The Election Commission has suspended the election process in eight municipalities at the request of the Local Government Ministry.  

The Anti Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed a petition with the High Court challenging a lower court order grating bail to controversial Hall-Mark Group chairman Jesmin Islam in one of the 11 cases filed against her.  

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…