AL-backed panel bags 10 posts in bar council poll

Ruling Awami League-backed Sammilita Ainjibi Samannoy Parishad panel bagged 10 posts out of 14, in the election to the Bangladesh Bar Council, the lawyers’ regulatory body in the country.

Many BNP leaders hold more than one post

Many leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s 386-member national executive committee, 19-member national standing committee and 36-member party chairperson’s advisory council are holding posts in different tiers and fronts of the party.

Kazi Zafar’s 1st janaza held in Tongi

The first namaz-e-janaza of Jatiya Party faction chairman and former prime minister Kazi Zafar Ahmad was held at Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi on Friday morning, United News of Bangladesh reports.

EXTRAJUDICIAL MURDERS: Law minister for judicial inquiry

Law minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said allegations of extra-judicial killing by law enforcement agencies should be investigated properly, as stipulated in the law.

AUGUST 21 GRENADE ATTACK : Victims, families still cry for justice

Victims of the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally and the victim families still cry for justice as two cases for the attack are still pending with a tribunal while the plotters are yet to be identified.

Kazi Zafar passes away

Former prime minister and chairman of a faction of Jatiya Party Kazi Zafar Ahmed died on Thursday morning. He was 76. Zafar’s personal staff Quamruzzman Rony told newsmen that the veteran politician breathed last at around 6:45am at Untied Hospital in Dhaka. He was suffering from multiple ailments.

Conspirators plan every day to attack PM, says Ashraf

Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Wednesday said a vested quarter is planning every day to attack Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through adopting various strategies.

Nazrul’s death anniv today

The day’s programme will begin with placing wreaths at the poet’s tomb on Dhaka University Central Mosque premises in the morning. Different socio-cultural organisations have planned elaborate programmes marking the poet’s death anniversary. Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and Nazrul Institute have jointly organised a programme at the academy featuring discussion, Nazrul Padak distribution ceremony and cultural programmes. Bangla Academy observed the day on Wednesday when Nazrul Academy will observe the poet’s death anniversary tomorrow.

Virginia TV reporter, photographer killed in shooting during live interview

A gunman killed a reporter and photographer during a live interview about a local business in Franklin County, Virginia, on Wednesday morning, according to CNN affiliate WDBJ, the two journalists' employers.

U.S. sending top-line F-22 jets to Europe

The U.S. Air Force will soon dispatch its most advanced fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, to Europe in a show of solidarity with allies that have concerns about Russian actions in Ukraine, Air Force leaders said Monday.