5 members of extremist group held with ammo, explosives in Chittagong
Rapid Action Battalion personnel detained five Muslim militants along with huge amount of explosives, ammunitions and militant training tools from Lotmoni, a hilly remote area of Bashkali upazila in Chittagong in an overnight drive early Sunday.
Two city high rises catch fire
Two high-rise buildings–one at Gulshan-2 and another at New Eskaton Road–caught fire in the city on Sunday morning, reports United News of Bangladesh.
72-hr nationwide strike begins peacefully
The first day of 72-hour nationwide general strike enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance was underway peacefully in the city in addition to the indefinite blockade that entered its 48th straight day on Sunday.
Have faith in me: Mamata
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee who had been opposing the crucial Teesta water sharing deal for the last four years, on Thursday said Bangladesh need not be worried over the Teesta, assuring countrymen that the problem will be resolved soon.
Nation salutes language heroes
Streams of mourners began filing past the shaheed minars after placing flowers at the altars across the country as clock struck the zero hour past Friday with the nation paying homage to the martyrs of the Language Movement of 1952 in a beefed up security amid a protracted blockade enforced by the opposition alliance.
Mahmood meets Kerry; both condemn violence, extremism
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Friday met US Secretary of State John F Kerry and they agreed that violence has no space in a democracy, and condemned the mindless violence and extremism in the name of ideology or political expression, said a Foreign Ministry media release here.
BNP-Jamaat out to fully destroy country: PM
Wondering that hartal and blockade programmes are these days called from undisclosed locations, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday said the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Jamaat-e-Islami clique...
EP delegation for immediate end to violence Expresses concern at enforced disappearances.
The visiting European Parliament delegation on human rights that met both government and opposition representatives on Thursday called for an immediate end to the increasing violence.
Arson victim dies, 8 more burnt Train made target again.
Another firebomb victim lost his battle for life at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and eight more suffered burns while a train came under arson attack on Thursday, the last day of a week-long hartal coupled with an indefinite blockade that enters its 46th day today.
Kamaruzzaman’s death warrant issued.
An International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday sent warrant for death of condemned war criminal Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to the Inspector General of Prison and Dhaka district magistrate.
