Two security guards strangled Chinese national Jianhui Gao to death in his Banani flat and looted Tk 3.49 lakh. To cover up the murder, the two buried the body behind the building, police said at a press conference in the DMP media centre yesterday.

Amid nationwide outrage and angry protests, the Liberation War affairs ministry yesterday suspended the controversial and flawed Razakars’ list three days after its publication.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said no freedom fighter would ever be labelled as a Razakar during her tenure.

At least five people were killed and 29 injured as two buses collided head-on in Rajbari’s Kalukhali upazila yesterday.

One phone call from him would send shivers down the spine of businessmen in Mohammadpur, Dhanmondi and Hazaribagh areas.

While the opening match of the Chattogram leg of the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League was a run fest at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium yesterday, the following match between Sylhet Thunder and Chattogram Challengers was a rather low-scoring one under the lights at the same venue.

The Bangladesh India Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) talks scheduled to start from today was postponed at the last minute, delaying the exchange of data on six common rivers, which was last updated 34 years ago.

With more names of freedom fighters cropping up on the Razakars’ list, the home and the Liberation War affairs ministers have traded blame over preparation of the list that has caused nationwide outrage.

Police fired tear gas at protesters in India’s capital yesterday as tens of thousands rallied around the country against a new citizenship law they say is anti-Muslim, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi remained defiant.

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced former military dictator Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia on treason charges stemming from his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007.

Protests against the amended citizenship legislation slammed as anti-Muslim spread to new areas of India and escalated in several other regions, with about 120 reported injured in New Delhi and Aligarh.

They bravely fought in the Liberation War and one of them laid down his life to free the motherland from the clutches of the Pakistan army. They have been honoured by all as heroes since then.

The national flag was fluttering atop almost all buildings. People in red and green flooded many streets. Patriotic songs, played over loudspeakers, reverberated through narrow alleys and beside thoroughfares.

A man, accused of rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, was killed in a “shootout” with law enforcers at Faridpur town early yesterday.

Two top officials of the partner company of state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation have allegedly embezzled over Tk 100 crore by transferring the money to three companies they have shares in.

“We are trapped by the flames. We can’t go downstairs. Please help!” These were the words of Uttam Kumar Das as he called his cousin Ranajit after the fire broke out at an electric fan factory in Gazipur Sunday afternoon.

The government has published the names of 10,789 Razakars who collaborated with the Pakistan occupation army in carrying out mass killings and atrocities against freedom fighters during the 1971 Liberation War.

According to the order of General AAK Niazi, Pakistan troops start surrendering weapons from 5:00am.

At least 10 workers were killed and two others suffered burns after a fire broke out at an electric fan and light bulb factory in Gazipur yesterday evening.

It was a cold winter night. Some 75 freedom fighters were deftly making their way in a quiet village called Betiara; only the whooshing sound of breeze blowing through bamboo bushes and trees and the chirping of insects were disturbing the eerie silence.