RAB raids suspected extremists’ den in Chittagong, two arrested
Rapid Action Battalion members on Thursday launched a drive at a suspected extremists’ den at Pahartali in Chittagong city and arrested two people along with arms. Identities of the arrestees could not be known immediately.
Primary Students: Govt asked to reduce weight of schoolbags
The High Court Division on Wednesday asked the government to ensure that no primary school student henceforth carried schoolbags in excess of 10 per cent of his or her own weight.
Bangladesh can’t allow ‘waves’ of Myanmar citizens: Hasina
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh would not allow ‘waves’ of Myanmar citizens fleeing military atrocities to sneak into the country.
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.
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.
30 missing as boat carrying Rohingyas sinks in Naf
About 30 went missing and were feared drowned as a boat packed with Rohingyas fleeing crack down on religious minority Muslims by Myanmar military capsized in the bordering river Naf early Monday, witnesses said.
