Bangladesh

International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants against 17 former police officials including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman in connection with the July-August mass killings. The three-member tribunal led by its chairman Justice Md Golam Motuza Mazumder passed the order on Sunday (October 27). ICT’s chief prosecutor Tajul Islam informed about the order. The tribunal ordered ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged not to take any hasty decision on the removal of President Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu. “We think the matter should be solved in the constitutional process. The only way to overcome every crisis is to hold a neutral election after completing all the necessary election-centered reforms.” Mirza Fakhrul made this remark while ...

A Dhaka court on Sunday sent Barrister Sayedul Haque Sumon to jail in a case filed over the attempted murder of Jubo Dal leader Hridoy Mia. Earlier this morning, he was produced before the court after concluding his five-day remand. Then Mirpur Model Police Station SI Abdul Halim submitted an application to keep Barrister Sumon in prison until investigation. Meanwhile, ...

National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas, Mineral Resources and Power-Port has announced to hold a countrywide rally on November 4 to press home its 6-point demands. The leaders of the committee announced the programme from a roundtable meeting held at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Saturday (October 26). The demands include holding trials of the “energy criminal” who looted country’s wealth in ...

The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Jatiya Nagorik Committee leaders are holding meeting with the BNP leaders. The meeting was arranged at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday (October 26) evening. Apart from BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, several leaders of the party have joined the meeting. On the other hand, the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement coordinator Hasnat Abdullah, ...

Former Chief Whip Abul Hasnat Abdullah’s son Moin Abdullah was arrested from a house at Gulshan-2 in the capital early Saturday. Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, confirmed the arrest in the morning. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police conducted a raid in the area around 3:30AM and arrested Moin. He was wanted in several ...

Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna on Saturday. General Waker-uz-Zaman briefed the Chief Adviser about his recent visit to the United States and Canada during the meeting. The army chief returned home on Friday after an 11-day official visit to the US and Canada. During the visit, the ...

Six people were killed as a truck smashed a CNG-run autorickshaw in Narsingdi’s Shibpur upazila on Saturday afternoon. The accident happened at Poncharbari area on the Monhordi-Shibpur-Itakhola regional road. Confirming the accident news, Shibpur Model Police Station OC Md Afzal Hossain said the identities and other details of the deceased could not be known immediately. Fire Service and police members ...

A day after India’s news portal The Print reported that former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been residing in the VVIP area of Lutyens’ Delhi, Hindustan Times reported today, citing intelligence sources, that she is staying in a secure bungalow in the VVIP area located in central Delhi near India Gate and Khan Market. Multiple layers of security shield ...

Police Headquarters has again released a list of 44 police officers who were killed during the student-led mass uprising in July-August to remove confusion. The list was published in a notice on Friday (October 25). According to the list, 44 police personnel were killed during the student-people’s mass uprising. Of them, 14 were from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and ...