Jamaat calls hartal for Wednesday and Thursday
The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called a two-day dawn-to-dusk countrywide general strike for Wednesday and Thursday protesting at the death penalty to its leader ATM Azharul Islam.
Azharul to die for war crimes
International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday awarded death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami leader, ATM Azharul Islam for committing genocide and mass killings in Rangpur during the country’s independence war in 1971. ‘He be hanged by the neck…. till his death’ the tribunal chairman justice, M Enayetur Rahim pronounced the verdict in a packed court room.
6 killed as covered van rams train
At least six people, including a woman, were killed and scores injured when a speedy covered van hit the locomotive of a running train before ramming a carriage in the capital’s Kamalapur railway station on Monday.
WAR CRIMES TRIAL: Azhar verdict Tuesday
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday said it would deliver the verdict on war crimes case against Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam on Tuesday.
AirAsia QZ8501: Indonesia plane search resumes
The search is continuing for AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501, a day after it went missing with 162 people on board.
Faruk awaits rare double as selector
Chief selector Faruk Ahmed is all set to achieve a rare honour when he will announce the 15-member Bangladesh squad for ICC World Cup next week. Faruk will be only selector to take the honour twice having already selected Bangladesh squad for World Cup 2007,
One killed as day-long hartal progresses
The daylong shutdown is passing across the country amid stray incidents, witnesses said.
Police storm New Age premises
A group of police led by Tejgaon industrial police station officer-in-charge Salahuddin on Sunday evening stormed New Age premises without giving any reason at about 8:20pm.
BNP calls countrywide shutdown for Monday
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown across the country for Monday in protest against the government’s not allowing the party chairperson Khaleda Zia to hold a rally in Gazipur on Saturday. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme at a news conference at Khaleda Zia’s office in Gulshan on Saturday afternoon.
Zihad brought dead from black hole
The rescuers said that when all sophisticated and modern equipment failed to spot the boy, a simple handmade tool made by a few volunteers, eventually found him, though, it was too late.The locals, with the help of iron-made ‘catcher’, made a last-ditch attempt to pull out the boy five minutes after the fire service closed their rescue operation, and it was all over with the discovery of his body.The volunteers, some of whom also took part in the 2013 Rana Plaza rescue operation in Savar, made the ‘catcher’ with iron rods, a torch, a tripod and a cleat tied to a 600-feet rope.
