Cricketer Shahadat sent to jail
A Dhaka court on Monday sent national cricketer Kazi Shahadat Hossain to jail rejecting his bail prayer in a case filed in connection with torture of his domestic help. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Mohammad Yusuf Hossain passed the order in the afternoon.
Govt was informed about security threats: Bernicat
The US ambassador to Bangladesh, Marcia Bernicat, said on Monday that the government was informed about the security threats to foreigners.
Yet another foreigner shot to death
A Japanese national was shot dead by assailants near his farmhouse in Rangpur Saturday morning less than a week of the killing of another foreign national in Dhaka, prompting police to issue a fresh alert across the country to keep foreign nationals safe.
Japan, SK citizens asked to move cautiously in Bangladesh
Japan and South Korea in separate advisories on Saturday alerted their citizens to exercise utmost security precaution in their movements anywhere in Bangladesh. The two embassies issued the advisories within hours of a Japanese citizen being shot and killed by three unknown assailants in Rangpur Saturday morning.
Foreigners’ killings part of conspiracy against country: PM
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday said that the killings of foreigners in Bangladesh were pre-planned and parts of a conspiracy to stop the advancement of Bangladesh and tarnish the country’s image abroad creating unrest in the country.
Hasina accorded ‘grand reception’, commuters suffer
The ruling Awami League and its alliance partners accorded prime minister Sheikh Hasina a ‘grand reception’ with leaders and activists standing in the roads from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to her official residence Ganabhaban.
BNP demands arrest of Sunderganj MP
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday demanded immediate arrest of ruling Awami League lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton for shooting at a nine-year boy in the legs at his constituency at Sundarganj in Gaibanfor on Friday.
MP shoots schoolboy
A nine-year-old boy was shot in the legs below the knees allegedly by local ruling Awami League lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton at Sundarganj in Gaibandha on Friday morning.
AL to accord grand reception to PM today
The ruling Awami League and its alliance partners and associate bodies will accord a ‘grand reception’ to the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, today for receiving two international awards including the United Nations’ highest environmental honour ‘Champions of the Earth’.
WAR CRIMES : Lawyers to meet Mojaheed today, Salauddin soon
Death row war crimes inmate Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed’s lawyers will meet their client at Dhaka Central Jail today while lawyers of another war crimes convict, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, will meet theirs soon to discuss the recently released apex court’s full verdicts against them and the grounds for seeking review of the judgements.
