Witness testifies on killing of 5
A freedom fighter yesterday testified that four to five detainees were killed at a Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali-controlled Al-Badr torture camp in Chittagong during the Liberation War in 1971....
View ArticleAL to offer JP 60 seats if it joins polls
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has finalised a list of 60 parliamentary constituencies, mostly in Rangpur division, to give up those seats for the Jatiya Party if it agrees to contest the January...
View ArticleJustice Sinha’s village home set on fire
A group of unidentified criminals set fire to the village home of Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, a senior judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, at Kamalganj in Moulvibazar early morning...
View ArticleMilk supply blockade-hit
More than one million consumers of three major metropolises have been suffering severely from milk scarcity for three weeks, as blockades and hartals have snapped the supply chain of the country’s...
View ArticleTearful mourners pay last respect
Nelson Mandela’s tearful widow was among scores of mourners who paid their last respects before his open casket yesterday, as the much-loved leader lay in state. Graca Machel, clad in a black...
View ArticleParalysed by fear
A bustling town up north, Bogra has been brought to its knees in recent weeks by the violent activism that the opposition alliance has unleashed. In broad daylight yesterday, only the odd roadside...
View ArticleHe saw them burn to death
He could not see his daughter and wife for one last time yesterday, nor could he be beside them in their last journey. Offering prayers at their graveside was not possible for him either. Such...
View ArticleJamaat, Shibir on rampage
Jamaat-Shibir activists continued to unleash terror across the country during the Jamaat-e-Islami-enforced daylong hartal yesterday, protesting the move to execute convicted war criminal Abdul Quader...
View ArticleMasuma loses battle for life
The motifs of henna in her hands had barely disappeared when she lost her life to mindless political violence. Masuma Akter died around 11:00am at Dhaka Burn Clinic and Diagnostic Hospital yesterday,...
View ArticleFate hangs in the balance
The fate of Abdul Quader Mollah now hangs in the balance, as the Supreme Court may decide today whether to accept or reject the review petition against the death sentence of the convicted war criminal....
View ArticleWar crimes, Kerry & history
US Secretary of State John Kerry called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday to warn her that if convicted war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah goes to the gallows, Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections...
View ArticleMollah execution to derail polls?
US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday said the execution of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah might lead to events, which could derail the next parliamentary election in Bangladesh. Talking to...
View ArticleSolution possible
UN special envoy Oscar Fernandez-Taranco yesterday urged the ruling and opposition parties to continue dialogue in the spirit of goodwill and with an attitude of compromise and reducing tension. He,...
View ArticleThey talk twice, agree to nothing
The United Nations’ hectic efforts brought the Awami League and the BNP leaders to the discussion table twice in the last two days, but could not make any breakthrough in the stalemate over the...
View ArticleMollah execution ‘anytime’
The Supreme Court today cleared the way for executing death row war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah, rejecting the Jamaat-e-Islami leader’s petition to review his death sentence. Attorney General...
View ArticleUS considers sanctions against Ukraine
The US state department has said it is considering all options, including sanctions, towards Ukraine as the political crisis there continues. It follows attempts by riot police to dislodge...
View ArticlePetrol bomb hurled at Justice Kabir’s village home
Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb and four crude bombs at the village home of Justice ATM Fazle Kabir, the chief of International Crimes Tribunal-1, in Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila early today. None was...
View ArticleBus torched, 2 bombs blasted in capital
Miscreants set fire to a bus in Sayedabad area and blasted two crude bombs at Dayaganj in the capital this morning, the sixth and last day of opposition-sponsored countrywide blockade of road, rail and...
View ArticleLast flight of MiG-21 jet that changed course of Liberation War
The MiG-21 FL fighter jet from Indian Air Force (IAF), which had changed the course of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh due to its accuracy, flew into the annals of history yesterday. “I have the...
View Article5 killed in Laxmipur opposition men-Rab clash
At least five people were shot dead and 25 injured as Rapid Action Battalion members opened fire during a clash with opposition men in Laxmipur town this morning. Protesting the deaths, the activists...
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