Bangladesh

The High Court has acquitted all the accused, including BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar, in August 21 grenade attack cases. An HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the judgement on Sunday after holding hearing on the death references and appeals. The court started reading the verdict after 11AM. ...

Journalist Munni Saha was released from the custody of the Detective Branch of police early Sunday, hours after being taken to DB office on Saturday night. Rezaul Karim Mallick, additional commissioner (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, confirmed this around 1:15AM. She was released under the obscure Section 497 of the Criminal Procedure Code, he added. “Police did not detained ...

Abu Saleh Akon of the Daily Nayadiganta and Mynul Hasan Sohel of the Daily Inqilab have been elected President and General Secretary of the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU). Saleh bagged 801 votes, while his nearest rival candidate Morsalin Nomani 496 and Shariful Islam (Biliu) obtained 102 votes respectively in the election held on Saturday. Mynul Hasan Sohel secured 548 votes ...

July Shaheed Smriti Foundation general secretary Sarjis Alam said, “Killer Sheikh Hasina and her collaborators are trying their best so that we cannot succeed. If we somehow fail, killer Hasina will annihilate all of us who are here now. Families could not bury the bodies of many martyrs before 5 August. Many could not stay home. If killer Sheikh Hasina ...

Three people have been arrested by police in connection with the murder of Dr AKM Abdur Rashid, a Bangladesh origin British physician, at his Hazaribagh residence in the capital on November 15 last. They were arrested from Dumuria in Khulna and Mohammadpur in Dhaka on Friday (November 29). Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)’s Ramna Division’s deputy commissioner (DC) Masud Alam stated ...

Bangladesh has said when the people of Bangladesh were setting glorious examples of religious harmony, unfortunately they observed how a “flurry of exaggerated, unfounded and fake” reports and deliberate spread of “misinformation and disinformation” by vested quarters regarding minority persecution. “Sadly, we saw it at this forum too. Many such propaganda have been debunked by global media,” said Permanent Representative ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir left Dhaka for London, UK, on Saturday morning on a 10-day visit. He is due to return to Dhaka on December 11. He alongwith his wife Rahat Ara Begum departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at 8:25AM, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan. It ...

A hospital in Kolkata’s Manicktala area said that it will no longer treat Bangladeshi patients, citing protests over alleged atrocities against minority Hindus in Bangladesh. An official from the JN Ray Hospital said that the decision was driven by incidents of disrespect shown towards the Indian flag by citizens of Bangladesh. “We have issued a notification that from today till ...

Father of slain Advocate Saiful Islam Alif on Friday night filed a murder case against 31 named persons and 10 to 15 unidentified individuals. The case was recorded early Saturday. Saiful’s father Jamal Uddin lodged the case with Kotwali Police Station, ADC (Public Relations) Kazi Tarek Aziz of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP). Meanwhile, another case was filed by Saiful’s ...

A Taka one-crore fund is being raised for slain lawyer Saiful Islam Alif under the supervision of Religious Affairs Adviser Dr. A. F. M. Khalid Hossain while humanitarian organization Alhaj Shamsul Hoque Foundation (ASHF) is collecting the fund. The religious affairs adviser said this at a press briefing after offering ziarat at the grave of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif in ...