Life of the city dwellers have come to a halt as businesses remain shut, shopping malls padlocked and education hampered during the opposition’s countrywide blockade programme. No remarkable violence was reported in the city today, on the second day of…
Joint forces arrested at least 56 opposition men including four women during their drives in Feni, Bogra and Lalmonirhat districts in the wake of recent spate of countrywide violence early today. Of the arrestees, 34 activists of BNP-led 18-party opposition…
The family members of Bishwajit Das, whom Bangladesh Chhatra League men stabbed dead in broad daylight during an opposition-called blockade last year, demanded immediate execution of the verdict. A Dhaka court today awarding death penalty to eight leaders and activists…
India has ordered a series of reprisals against the US over the arrest of one of its diplomats in New York. Security barricades around the US embassy in Delhi have been removed and a visiting US delegation was snubbed. Devyani…
Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir today stabbed and cut the right-leg tendon of a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader in Rajshahi city. Shimul Ahmed Duke, 20, a class XII student of Agrani School and College, was BCL joint convener of…
Eight leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were awarded death penalty and 13 others life term for killing tailor Bishwajit Das in old part of Dhaka a year ago. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4…
Two Dhaka courts today sent BNP vice-president Sadeque Hossain Khoka to jail rejecting his bail and remand prayers in connection with a sedition case and for killing a man in an arson attack. Metropolitan magistrates Tarek Mainul Islam Bhuiyan and…
A Dhaka tribunal will decide on December 31 whether it will frame charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity and genocide during the Liberation War in 1971. The tribunal was scheduled to take…
Two more victims who suffered burn and bullet injuries in Gazipur and Joypurhat during the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance-called countrywide blockade programme died today. Al-Amin, 28, a bus driver of Savar died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital this morning. He…
The 48-hour hartal enforced by the Jatiya Party in Rangpur division is progressing peacefully today. No incident of violence was reported from the division till filing the report around 11:00am, reports our Rangpur correspondent. However, the roads were empty and…
Miscreants set fire to a goods-laden truck on Dhaka-Barisal highway in Barisal city early today. None was reported hurt in the arson which took place during the second day of the BNP-led 18-party opposition-sponsored countrywide 72-hour blockade of roads, rail…
The armoury and police barrack were gutted when a fire broke out at Manikchhari Police Station in Khagrachhari this morning. Confirming the incident, Keshob Chakrabarti, officer-in-charge of the police station, said the blaze started around 7:00am from an electric short…
A woman, who suffered bullet wounds during Sunday’s clash between Jamaat-e-Islami and law enforcers in Joypurhat, died at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogra early today. The death toll from the clash hit five with the latest one.…
The Saarc should leverage their countries’ collective bargaining power to seek greater protection for their nationals working in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, the International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch said today. The New York-based rights body made the…
Hundreds of people are believed to have died in clashes between rival South Sudan army factions, the UN says, quoting unconfirmed reports. UN diplomats said they had been told by sources in the capital, Juba, that the death toll was…
