Kamaruzzman’s son brands magistrates, home minister “liars”.

Hasan Iqbal Wami, eldest son of death row war crimes convict Muhammad Kamaruzzman, on Saturday branded the two magistrates and the home minister as liars and claimed they had no talks with Kamaruzzaman in jail.....

BSF shot 2 Bangladeshis dead at Benapole

Indian Border Security Force on early Saturday gunned down two Bangladeshis on Putkhali frontier of Benapole in Jessore.

Kamaruzzaman refuses to seek presidential clemency

State minister for home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal Friday said that execution of death-row convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman could be carried out anytime today.

DHAKA, CHITTAGONG CITY POLLS

Candidates embark on electioneeringCandidates for mayors and ward councillors in the three civic polls embarked on formal electioneering to win the hearts of the people of Dhaka and Chittagong shortly after the Election Commission distributed polls symbols on Friday, a weekly holiday.

Emajuddin demands army a week before city polls

Adarsha Dhaka Andolan convener Emajuddin Ahmed on Friday demanded the deployment of army a week before the elections of Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations, scheduled for April 28.

Magistrates meet Kamaruzzaman at jail

Two magistrates met war crimes death row inmate Muhammad Kamaruzzaman at Dhaka Central Jail on Friday morning to know if he would file application for presidential clemency.

Kabari, Bobby, Salam quits mayoral race.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party economic affairs secretary Abdus Salam has quit the mayoral race for Dhaka south city corporation while former adviser to Jatiya Party chairman Bobby Hajjaj and former Awami League MP Sarah Begum Kabari quit the race in Dhaka north city corporation........

Kamaruzzaman gets time to seek presidential clemency.

The government has given time until this morning for war crimes death row inmate Muhammad Kamaruzzman to decide whether or not he would apply for presidential clemency,

GDP revised at 6.8pc in FY15

The coordination council on macro-economy in a meeting on Wednesday decided to revise the country’s growth target of the gross domestic product at 6.8 per cent in the outgoing fiscal year. Officials attending the meeting said that the committee also fixed the GDP growth rate at 7.4 per cent for the next fiscal year.