BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will return home from London on Saturday.

The full verdict of Supreme Court on death row war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury reaches the Dhaka central jail.

A case is filed in connection with the attack on an Italian volunteer physician that took place yesterday in Dinajpur town.

At least four members of a family including a minor boy were burnt in an explosion at a house in Fatullah area of Narayanganj.

Family meets top BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for an hour and leaves without facing the media. The meeting takes place a day after the Supreme Court rejected SQ Chowdhury’s plea for review against his death penalty for war crimes committed during 1971.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cancelled her Malta and France tours considering the overall situation both at home and in Europe.

The dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal sponsored by the Jamaat-e-Islami is underway in the county in a relaxed manner.

Customs Intelligence officials today seized a total of 6,700 mobile sets and 82 gold bars from Dhaka and Chittagong in separate incidents.

The central bank appoints four observers to the boards of four state-owned commercial banks.

A parliamentary body recommends that the authorities scrap registration of TIB for making what it termed “derogatory comments about the parliament”.

BNP is yet to give any reaction on the Supreme Court’s verdict upholding death penalty for its standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is deployed in Dhaka for 12 hours to maintain security in the capital.

Al-Badr leader Mojaheed, who publicly insisted that there was no anti-liberation war element in the country, sees his plea to review his death penalty for war crimes turned down.

Detectives yesterday arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in killing blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.

Expressing disappointment over today’s Supreme Court verdict, son of war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed said his family has been deprived of justice.

Jamaat-e-Islami calls a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) for tomorrow protesting Supreme Court’s rejection of party secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed’s plea to review its ruling upholding his death penalty for war crimes.

War crimes convict Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed followed in his father Maulana Abdul Ali’s footsteps all along.

The government has ordered blocking popular social networking platform Facebook and online messaging and calling services WhatsApp and Viber this morning.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha’s village home in Moulvibazar is put under beefed up security since this morning ahead of two war trial verdicts.

Supreme Court maintains its previous ruling upholding death penalties for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami's Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 War of Independence.