Bangladesh

Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman has been acquitted in a treason case filed in Noakhali. Noakhali Additional District and Sessions Judge Court Judge Md. Noman Mahi Uddin delivered the verdict on Wednesday. Confirming the information, the court inspector Md. Shah Alam said that the judge also directed the officer-in-charge of Char Jabbar Police Station to withdraw the ...

Eight districts of the country have been flooded due to heavy rains and onrush of water from the upstream, said the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief on Wednesday. The eight districts are — Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Feni, Chattogram, Noakhali, Cumilla and Khagrachhari. The flood may spread further, said Additional Secretary of the ministry KM Ali Reza at a press ...

A case has been filed against 123 people with Narayanganj-4 seat former MP Shamim Osman being the main accused in the case over the death of caretaker Monir Hossain on Heerajhil Road in  Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj. Sakhawat Hossain, younger brother of the victim Monir Hossain, filed the case with Siddhirganj Police Station as the plaintiff on Wednesday (21 August) morning. Siddhirganj ...

Interim Government Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus is likely to attend the BIMSTEC Summit to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in September first week. This is going to be his first foreign tour as head of the interim government. Prof Yunus will deliver his speech at the Summit on September 4, an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, ...

Former State Minister for Liberation War Affairs Captain (retd) AB Tajul Islam, Chattogram port’s former chairman rear admiral Mohammad Sohail and Awami League organising secretary Ahmad Hossain have been arrested in Dhaka. According to Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) police, Tajul was arrested from Gulshan, Sohail from Banani and Ahmad Hossain was arrested from Banasree on Tuesday night. Later, they ...

A case has been filed over the killing of Sajjad Hossain, who died after being shot dead during the anti-discrimination student movement in Rangpur. Apart from former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana, journalist Suvash Singha Roy and former prime minister’s press secretary Nayeemul Islam Khan have been made accused in the case. Jitu Begum, wife of ...

A case has been filed against 21 people, including Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and her daughter Saima Wazed Putul, over the shooting and killing of a fruit vendor at Jatrabari during the recent student movement. Md Sultan Sheikh, father of the deceased Md Farid Sheikh, filed the case with Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md ...

Former social welfare minister Dipu Moni and former deputy minister for youth and sports Arif Khan Joy have been placed on a four-day and a five-day remand respectively in a case filed over the killing of grocer Abu Sayeed at Mohammadpur in the capital. Producing them before the court on Tuesday (August 20), Mohammadpur Police Station’s inspector Toffazal Hossain pleaded ...

Another murder case has been filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 24 others over the death of garment worker Md Sohel Rana in the city’s Adabor area on August 5. Mohammad Ibrahim, brother of Sohel Rana, submitted a petition with the Court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sultan Sohag Uddin to file the case on Tuesday ...

BNP Chairperson’s adviser Lion Mohammad Aslam Chowdhury was freed from Chattogram Central Jail on Tuesday (August 20) after eight years. Deputy jailer Md Ibrahim said Aslam Chowdhury came out of prison at about 10am. Bail paper of Aslam Chowdhury of the last case reached the jail and after scrutinising those, he was permitted to walk out, he added. Meanwhile, hearing ...