SC upholds death sentences of Mufti Hannan, 2 others for grenade attack on UK high commissioner

The Appellate Division on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of Mufti Abdul Hannan, chief of banned outfit Harkatul-Jihad Al Islami and its two other leaders as they were found guilty of murdering three persons and injuring former UK High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury in 2004.

SC upholds death sentences of Mufti Hannan, 2 others for grenade attack on UK high commissioner

The Appellate Division on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of Mufti Abdul Hannan, chief of banned outfit Harkatul-Jihad Al Islami and its two other leaders as they were found guilty of murdering three persons and injuring former UK High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury in 2004.

BNP submits Khaleda’s EC proposals to Bangabhaban

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday welcomed the president’s plan to hold talks with political parties to form a new election commission.

Trump and China on collision course

In speaking on the telephone with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and lashing out at China on Twitter over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump did more than bewilder leaders in Beijing and the White House.

Donald Trump meets with Al Gore on climate change

President-elect Donald Trump met on Monday with Al Gore -- one of the most vocal advocates of fighting climate change.

'They want us to be silent': Hong Kong lawmaker under threat vows to fight

One of the leaders of the 2014 Umbrella Movement has vowed to take to the streets again if the Hong Kong government succeeds in unseating him and three other pro-democracy lawmakers.

The photo that captures 2016's political tsunamis

he five world leaders stand close together, all firmly at the helm of their respective nations, which together could lay claim to leading the free world.

Failure to complete trials in crimes against women, children : HC wants action against tribunal judges, PPs, IOs

The High Court on Monday prescribed departmental action against judges of women and children repression prevention tribunals, public prosecutors and investigation officers who would fail to complete the trial of accused within the stipulated 180 days.

Three Natore JL stalwarts found dead

The police recovered bullet-hit bodies of a leader and two activists of Natore town unit Juba League, the ruling Awami League-backed youth body, from a roadside garden on Dinajpur-Ghoraghat highway at Kalabari in Dinajpur Monday morning.

Democracy now in danger: Khaleda

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday claimed that democracy that was attained at the cost of blood of many martyrs was now in danger.