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Police have detained 12 persons from the house of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in a case of abduction and murder of seven men in Narayanganj, during a raid. Additional police superintendent Shahidul Islam said the three-hour raid started at…

Bangladesh Nationalist Party has asked its leaders and activists to take precautionary measures and follow a 10-point set of suggestions including not moving alone and avoiding unsafe areas considering the prevailing situation in the country. BNP acting secretary Mirza Fakhrul…

Bangladesh Navy has launched a fresh search operation for the missing Malaysian passenger aircraft, MH Flight 370, in the Bay of Bengal, following the suggestion by an Australian survey company that the wreckage of a plane might be found in…

The United Kingdom (UK) has welcomed Bangladesh’s endorsement of the Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan have announced their endorsement of the Declaration this week, launched as part of the UK’s Preventing Sexual…

Narayanganj District Lawyers Association will enforce a daylong hartal in the district for Sunday protesting the recent abduction and killing including Chandan Sarkar, a senior lawyer at Narayanganj District Judge’s Court. The bodies of Chandan and five others were found…

Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday announced a weeklong programme including hunger strike on May 8 protesting the recent abduction and killing including Chandan Sarkar. Vice chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council and president of SCBA Advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain…

Gono Forum chairman Dr Kamal Hossain has called for forming citizens committees in all thanas of the country to organise citizens for a nationwide movement against the ‘sick politics’ practised by the two main parties. “People want to see a…

A businessmen was reportedly kidnapped for ransom from Sanarpar in Shiddhirganj area on Thursday night, spreading panic in the city already reeling under abduction spree. The latest victim was identified as Syed Saiful Islam. Family sources said Saiful remained missing…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has called on the nation to stand up against abduction and forced disappearances at a May Day rally. She demanded that the government identify the criminals abducting people in the guise of police and RAB. “I…

Apparently holding BNP responsible for unleashing the recent secret killings, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called upon the BNP chief to shun the movement of clandestine attacks and return to the path of normal movement. “Why the country’s people…

Expressing deep concern over the growing incidents of killing and forced disappearance, Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Thursday said people are anxious and panicked as they have no security. “Everyone is scared and no one has peace in their…

Eight people were killed and 14 others injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Lalmonirhat, Sunamganj and Panchagarh districts on Thursday. Among them, four people were killed in Lalmonirhat, three in Sunamganj and one in Panchagarh districts. In Lalmonirhat,…

Slain councillor and panel mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation Narul Islam, whose decomposing body was recovered from the Shitalakhya river yesterday – three days on from his abduction with 4 associates – was laid to eternal rest Thursday morning. Following…

A group of agitating people on Thursday morning vandalized and set fire to the personal office of city councillor Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the case filed in connection with the abduction of slain city panel mayor Nazrul Islam…

The United States in its ‘Country Reports on Terrorism 2013’ says Bangladesh’s foreign and domestic policies are heavily influenced by the region’s major powers, particularly India. The report however lauded Bangladesh’s counterterrorism efforts as there had been no major terrorist…

Narayanganj District Bar Association on Thursday called a daylong hartal in the district for Sunday protesting the killings of seven people, including senior lawyer Chandan Sarker, after their abduction. Bar Association president Shakhawat Hossain told journalists that they called the…

In the wake of frequent incidents of abduction, Narayanganj Deputy Commissioner Manoj Kanti Baral has been transferred. Manoj Kanti has been made the Joint Secretary of Shipping Ministry and the Public Administration Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard…

A new disease called Chikungunya that causes painful and sometimes crippling symptoms has spread in the capital Dhaka, raising a public health alarm. The mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus first broke out in the northern Chapainawabganj district in 2008 and a year…

The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Wednesday placed five persons including three policemen on a three-day remand each in the case filed in connection with recovery of gold bar. Magistrate Atiqur Rahman of the CMM Court passed…

Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has suffered a loss of about Tk 1,500 crore for erasing call records from its international truck exchange (ITX), says a study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). It reveals that there was no international…

Terming the present government as a slave and illegal, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday called upon the people to renew the movement to save the country. “This government is subservient and illegal. Nobody listens to a slave. So, movement…

A German delegation has questioned the acceptability of Bangladesh’s national election held on Jan 5 this year and asked for interim polls, says BNP Vice-chairman Shamser Mobin Chowdhury. He said the parliamentary delegation, led by Dagmar G Woehrl, revealed the…

President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Tuesday prayed for dismissing the plea of the chief prosecutor before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 seeking to draw contempt-of-court proceedings against him over the remarks he made on…

Law enforcers in Cox’s Bazar have launched a drive to nab the ‘Yaba syndicate’ peddling the contraband drug. The list of such traders has been prepared by intelligence organisations, Department of Narcotic Control (DNC), Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), RAB and…

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the ruling party has become the enemy of people for its misrule. “The ruling party has turned people’s enemy… So, they’re now trying to hang onto power by…

Supporters of abducted Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam blocked Dhaka-Chittagong highway for two and a half hours on Tuesday, demanding the immediate rescue of Nazrul and his four associates. Lawyers, meanwhile, demonstrated and boycotted the court here for…