They now can rest in peace
It was a phone call that gave words to a long endured pain and wait. Perhaps that is why Saif Imam Jami called back from a different time zone, taking time out of his busy office hours. Yet Jami,...
View ArticleLike father, like son
War crimes convict Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed followed in his father Maulana Abdul Ali’s footsteps all along. In 1971, Abdul Ali was one of the top leaders of the Faridpur Peace Committee, and...
View ArticleGALLOWS for Mojaheed
A court yesterday sentenced Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed to death for his role in crimes against humanity, including the mass extermination of intellectuals towards the end of the Liberation War in...
View ArticleSlack hartal in capital
The Dhaka city residents have defied the Jamaat-e-Islami-enforced countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) carrying out almost all their daily activities Thursday. The shutdown, which called to...
View ArticleTaliban ‘shock’ over Malala attack
A Pakistani Taliban leader has sent a letter to schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, 16, expressing shock that she was shot by Taliban gunmen last year. The Taliban were universally condemned after gunmen shot...
View ArticleN Korea urges Panama to release weapons ship
North Korea has urged Panama to release without delay its ship and crew, seized after weapons were found on board. In its first comments on the case, the North Korean foreign ministry said the cargo of...
View ArticlePro-Assad Syrian official killed in Lebanon
A senior Syrian official, Mohammed Darrar Jamo, has been shot dead in the southern Lebanese town of Sarafand. Jamo, a supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was attacked early on Wednesday...
View ArticleMandela turns 95 in hospital
Nelson Mandela is spending his 95th birthday in hospital in Pretoria, as events take place around the world and in South Africa in his honour. South Africans are being urged to match the former...
View ArticleObama honours Mandela on 95th birthday
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are sending their wishes and prayers to former South African leader Nelson Mandela on his 95th birthday. Mandela is critically ill in the hospital,...
View ArticleArson, vandalism mark hartal in districts
Stray incidents of violence, like arson, vandalism and explosion of homemade bombs, marked the countrywide 10-hour hartal (shutdown) enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday. The shutdown called the...
View ArticleStocks nosedive
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse plunged on Thursday, to continue a losing streak of the previous trading day. DGEN, the general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), dipped...
View ArticleGP revenue dips
Grameenphone, the lone listed telecom company, has incurred a 47.20 percent loss in its half-yearly earnings to June 2013. The earnings per share (EPS), which was Tk 7.16 at the same period of last...
View ArticleKhokon Razakar charges accepted
A tribunal in Dhaka Thursday accepted charges of war crimes against fugitive Faridpur BNP leader MA Zahid Hossain Khokon, known as Khokon Razakar. The court issued an arrest warrant against Khokon, the...
View ArticleICT sets deadline for producing defence witnesses
A tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday asked the counsels for war crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to produce a defence witness before it on Sunday for cross examination. If the defence counsels fail...
View ArticleAzhar faces 6 charges
The prosecution Thursday pressed six charges of wartime offences, which include mass murder, rape, torture and loot, against Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam. The 61-year-old, now behind the bars, also...
View ArticleCharge framing hearing now starts July 25
A Dhaka tribunal on Thursday re-fixed July 25 for starting hearing on charge framing against Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War...
View Article8 Afghan labourers shot dead
Eight Afghan labourers who were on their way to work at a US military base in Logar province have been shot dead, local officials say. The men, aged between 15 and 25, were in a van when they were...
View ArticleOrder on Economist show cause notice Aug 27
A special tribunal will pronounce order on August 27 on a show cause notice issued to two editors of “The Economist” for publishing Skype conversation between a ICT judge and an expatriate Bangladeshi...
View ArticleMandela ‘steadily improving’ on 95th birthday
South Africa celebrated Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday on Thursday, a milestone capped by news that the former president’s health was improving after fears that he was close to death during ongoing...
View ArticleMerkel says ‘Germany not a surveillance state’
Chancellor Angela Merkel said “Germany is not a surveillance state” and insisted she only learnt of sweeping US online snooping through press reports, during a lengthy election-campaign media grilling...
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