None of the 48 people who died and around 400 others injured was affiliated with politics, but they became victims of violence in 26 days of hartals and blockades imposed by the opposition alliance since November. The families of those…
Cashing in on hartals and blockades, Jamaat-Shibir men in Jessore are felling hundreds of wayside trees to block roads and highways and selling them at night. According to district council officers, more than 1,000 trees, worth several crores of taka,…
The war crimes tribunal yesterday accepted petitions filed by the defence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf, seeking reopening of the cross-examination of seven prosecution witnesses. Irked by perpetual absence of Yusuf’s conducting counsel from the court proceedings during opposition-enforced hartals…
A Dhaka Court will deliver the verdict in the sensational Biswajit murder case today. Twenty-one Chhatra League men of Jagannath University are accused in the case. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 will pronounce the judgment at…
Hundreds of air passengers have been held up for long hours in Bangladesh and three other countries, as two aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines were grounded due to technical glitches in the last two days. Lack of hotel accommodation from…
India yesterday hit back at the United States with a series of reprisal measures, including withdrawing identity cards for American consular officials in the country, in protest at the arrest and “barbaric treatment” of a diplomat in New York. “We…
Criminals shot dead two construction workers and injured another at the site of an under-construction building in the capital’s Badda area yesterday morning. Police suspect that local miscreants, who tried to extort money from the land owner, were behind the…
Bangladesh’s 36 eminent personalities yesterday slammed the resolution passed in Pakistan parliament that condemned the execution of convicted war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah. Terming it an attempt to interfere in Bangladesh’s domestic affairs, they expressed shock and anger at the…
Pakistan’s cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan seems to have been persuaded into believing that war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah, executed in Dhaka last week, was innocent of the charges levelled against him. Khan, who heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party, told a session…
The United States is waiting for an explanation from the Bangladesh government about how the January 5 elections are going to be held, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday, after a meeting with US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan W Mozena.…
A Chinese man who was sentenced to death and spent 12 years in prison for the rape and murder of a child was awarded $160,000 compensation yesterday after his conviction was overturned, a court said. Li Huailiang stood trial seven…
China’s much-vaunted abolition of its widely loathed “re-education through labour” camps risks being no more than a cosmetic change because of other rights abuses, Amnesty International said yesterday. Arbitrary detention will persist in unofficial “black jails”, drug rehabilitation centres and…
