Bangladesh
No room for militancy, reiterates PM
Reiterating her firm vow not to give any room to terrorism and militancy on the soil of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says no one would be allowed to play with the fate of the country in the name of militancy as long as she is alive.
5 May 2016, 17:25 PM
Won’t support any law against journalists’ interests: Press Council chief
Chairman of Bangladesh Press Council Justice Mohammed Mumtaz Uddin Ahmed says he would not approve any law that goes against the interests of journalists.
5 May 2016, 15:06 PM
Husband ‘kills wife’ in Dhaka
A man has allegedly hack his wife to death over a family feud in Kalyanpur area of Dhaka, cops say.
5 May 2016, 13:56 PM
Govt displeased with anti-religion bloggers, their killers: Minister
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today says the government is not pleased with “bloggers who demean religion” and the people who are killing them.
5 May 2016, 10:04 AM
HC scraps 16th amendment
High Court scraps 16th amendment to the constitution that empowered the parliament to impeach Supreme Court judges for incapacity or misconduct. Terming the amendment law as ‘a historical accident’, the court says it is against the principle of separation of powers and independence of the judiciary. Government says it will appeal against the ruling.
5 May 2016, 09:04 AM
OPINION: Will the lawbreakers listen to the HC?
It’s hard not to punch your fist in the air and say ‘Yes!!’ when you read something like ‘HC move to stop wrong side driving in Dhaka’. Finally, someone is doing something about this preposterous level of highhandedness displayed by people who are either truly very important or think they are very important.
5 May 2016, 08:09 AM
Baby-faced Bangladesh assassin Rahman takes IPL by storm
Pace bowler Mustafizur Rahman has been a revelation since he burst onto the international stage with Bangladesh just a year ago -- and now he is taking the Indian Premier League (IPL) by storm.
5 May 2016, 07:23 AM
It’s up to Nizami to seek mercy: Defence
It is up to Motiur Rahman Nizami whether he will seek for mercy or not, says defence lawyer for the convicted war criminal, whose review plea against the gallows was scrapped today.
5 May 2016, 07:18 AM
8 killed as truck hits three-wheeler in Mymensingh
Eight people are killed as a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Mymensingh Sadar upazila.
5 May 2016, 06:56 AM
Jamaat calls hartal for Sunday protesting death penalty to Nizami
Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour countrywide hartal (shutdown) for Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld death penalty awarded to the party’s chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his 1971 war crimes.
5 May 2016, 06:42 AM
Tisha, Arifin talk about film Ostitto
Popular stars Arifin Shuvoo and Nusrat Imrose Tisha join hands for the first time as a romantic couple in Ostitto, a film that would hit the theatres across the country on Friday.
5 May 2016, 06:26 AM
Security beefed on SC premises ahead of Nizami’s review plea verdict
The government beefed up security in the Supreme Court area this morning ahead of the verdict on war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami’s petition seeking review of the SC judgement that upheld his death penalty for wartime crimes.
5 May 2016, 05:33 AM
SC won’t rehear most of 168 settled cases
SC will not rehear most of 168 cases, in which former chief justice Md Muzammel Hossain and former SC judge Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik wrote judgments and orders after their retirement.
5 May 2016, 04:19 AM
Bring ethnic minorities to mainstream development
Experts yesterday stressed the need for bringing different ethnic minority communities to mainstream development and
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
SC verdict on Nizami's review plea today
All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it is set today to pass an order on the petition of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami,
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Only 3 of 53 cases see progress in probe
Fifty-three cases were filed over the May 5 mayhem by thousands of Hefajat-e Islam men in the capital three years ago, but
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Farmers in northeastern Bangladesh in trouble
Flash floods triggered by heavy rain and hailstorms have damaged Boro paddy massively in the haor areas of Sunamganj and Sylhet.
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Interpol team in Dhaka to help CID
The six visiting Interpol officials teaming up with the Criminal Investigation Department yesterday started forensic analysis of
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
'They formed cell, met in parks, shared radical contents'
The eight Bangladeshi workers held recently in Singapore had allegedly formed an “Islamist” cell that met in parks and other
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh govt to watch news media
The government has moved to set up a “media monitoring centre” to keep an eye on news items published in different media,
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM