CID asked to explain failure to submit Rana plaza probe report
A Dhaka court issued a show cause notice asking the CID to explain why they failed to submit a probe report before it by today in two cases filed over the Rana Plaza collapse that killed 1,132 people...
View ArticleWrit seeks dissolution of JS
A petition sought High Court directives on the prime minister to advise the president to dissolve the parliament before declaration of polls schedule of the 10th general election. Eunus Ali Akond, a...
View ArticleManju made adviser to PM
Anwar Hossain Manju, chairman of Jatiya Party (JP-Manju), has been appointed as an adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Khandaker Md Iftekhar Haider, additional secretary to the Cabinet Division,...
View ArticleWhy not RPO change for ‘no’ vote option, HC asks govt
The High Court today asked the government and Election Commission to explain in two weeks why they should not be directed to bring necessary amendments to the Representation of the People Order (RPO)...
View ArticleOrder on Subhan’s indictment Dec 18
A Dhaka tribunal will decide on December 18 whether it will indict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulana Abdus Subhan for his involvement with crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation...
View Article6 injured as BCL, JCD clash in Rajshahi
At least six people were injured — two of them bullet-hit — in a clash between the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in Rajshahi today. The clash ensued...
View ArticlePM offers any ministry Khaleda wants
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today again called upon BNP to join the next national election saying she is willing to offer any ministry opposition leader Khaleda Zia wants in the polls-time cabinet....
View ArticlePM for raising stock investors’ awareness
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the authorities to take more programmes to make small and new investors aware about relevant laws and rules of the stock market to minimise their risks. “I...
View ArticleIran agrees to curb nuke activity
Iran has agreed to curb some of its nuclear activities in return for about $7bn (£4.3bn) in sanctions relief, after days of intense talks in Geneva. US President Barack Obama welcomed the deal, saying...
View ArticleHefajat’s rally at Shapla Chattar on Dec 24
Hefajat-e Islam will hold a rally at Shapla Chattar in the capital on December 24 to press home its controversial 13-point demand. Junaid Babunagari, secretary general of Hefajat, made the announcement...
View ArticleEC yet to set schedule announcement date
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed this evening said the Election Commission (EC) is yet to decide the date for announcing schedule for the next parliamentary election. “We have...
View ArticleCompensate 20 more Tazreen fire victims’ families: HC
The High Court today directed the authorities concerned to compensate the families of 20 more Tazreen fire victims, who have recently been identified through DNA test. The court ordered the government...
View ArticleRelease of Mollah verdict’s full text any day
The full text of the Supreme Court judgment that awarded death penalty to war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah is likely to be released in a few days, as judges have completed writing their shares of it....
View ArticleTensions mount in Libya after deadly unrest
Local officials called for civil disobedience including strikes for three days from in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday after deadly clashes between radical Islamist fighters and the army....
View ArticleZimbabwe court frees top rights lawyer
A Zimbabwean court yesterday freed prominent rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, who had faced charges of obstructing the course of justice during a police raid. “There is no evidence that the accused...
View ArticleDefence absent again from war crimes tribunal
The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday closed the cross-examination of a prosecution witness in the case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf as his senior counsel did not show up even after...
View ArticleHannan Shah remanded
A Dhaka court yesterday placed BNP leader Brig (retd) ASM Hannan Shah on a two-day remand, allowing police to quiz him in a case filed over torching a car in the capital. Metropolitan Magistrate Tareq...
View ArticleFive quit, two stay
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has retained two of her seven advisers appointed when she took office about five years ago while five of them resigned yesterday. The PM now has six advisers with four of...
View ArticleZafar Iqbal, Yasmeen Haque resign
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST) Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and his wife Professor Yasmeen Haque resigned yesterday soon after the university authority postponed the combined...
View ArticleAshraf, Fakhrul exchange letters
The BNP acting secretary general sent a letter to the Awami League general secretary yesterday, inquiring the AL’s stance on the opposition proposal for holding talks on a nonpartisan polls-time...
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