Subhan gets death penalty.
International Crimes Tribunal -2 on Wednesday awarded death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan for crimes against humanity that he had committed during the country’s independence war in 1971.
AL urges diplomats to convey atrocities to their govts .
The ruling Awami League on Tuesday urged foreign diplomats to convey the stories of killing people in arsons in Bangladesh to their respective governments and the world.
Khaleda, 13 BNP leaders prosecuted.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, was prosecuted for the crude bomb blast in an anti-blockade procession led by shipping minister Shajahan Khan at Gulshan-2 that left 20 people injured on Monday.
US for non-violent, responsible ways to resolve crisis: Bernicat.
Political parties would play their role in finding out ‘non-violent’ and ‘responsible’ ways to resolve the present crisis here, the new US ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat said at a press conference in Dhaka Tuesday.
BNP, allies extend strike till Friday.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance has extended its ongoing 72-hour nationwide shutdown by 48 hours till 6:00am Friday. BNP joint secretary-general Salahuddin Ahmed made the announcement through a press release......
72-hr strike continues peacefully on third day.
The third day of the fresh 72-hour nationwide strike, enforced by the BNP-led alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade, is passing off peacefully on Tuesday, reports United News of Bangladesh.
PM wants immediate steps for Dhaka mayoral polls AL to back former FBCCI president Annisul as DNCC mayor ,
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday once again asked the LGRD and cooperatives ministry to take steps to hold the long overdue mayoral...
Blockade, hartal marked with stray violence.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance-sponsored indefinite blockade rolled into the seventh straight week and 72-hour general strike continued for the second day on Monday being marked with stray incidents of vandalism,
PM doubts if Khaleda would accept dialogue.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said in parliament that the initiative to start a dialogue would encourage the terrorists and militant activities sponsored by the BNP-led alliance across the country in the name of movement.
Violence marks blockade, hartal BNP activist shot dead in Magura, miscreants set fire to train in Narayanganj.
Another opposition activist was killed in police firing in Magura as blockade and general strike intensified with vandalism, crude bomb blasts and presence of pickets in the streets in the capital as elsewhere across the country on Sunday, the first day of 72-hour general strike and 41st day of transport blockade.
