Bangladesh

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has been ordered to reinvestigate the alleged abduction of writer, columnist, and poet Farhad Mazhar, nearly eight years after the incident. On July 3, 2017, Mazhar was reportedly abducted from outside his residence in Dhaka’s Shyamoli area. His wife, Farida Akhter, now an advisor to the interim government, filed an abduction case after receiving ...

The special executive magistracy powers of officers from the Army, Navy and Air Force have been extended for two more months for the third consecutive time. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification in this regard on Thursday (March 13). According to the notification, army officers holding the rank of captain and higher are granted special executive magistracy power ...

Nargis Begum, wife of the late BNP standing committee member Tariqul Islam, has been made the party’s vice-chairman. Meanwhile, Haji Aminur Rashid Yasin, BNP’s relief and rehabilitation affairs secretary, has been appointed as a member of the party chairperson’s advisory council. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced this in a press release on Wednesday night. Nargis previously ...

Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara met with Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday at the State Guest House Jamuna to discuss the ongoing genocide case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). During the meeting, Minister Tangara provided an update on Gambia’s legal efforts to hold Myanmar accountable for the persecution of Rohingya Muslims. He reaffirmed his ...

Salman F Rahman, former Adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Private Sector and Investment, and Atiqul Islam, former Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), have been arrested in connection with a new case related Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. However, Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism’s former Senior Secretary M Mohibul Haque was also arrested. The orders of arresting them ...

A Dhaka court has granted remand for several political figures in connection with cases related to the anti-discrimination movement. Former State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak has been placed on a three-day remand, while banned organization Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders Siam Rahman and Anwar Hossain Naim have been remanded for four days. Additionally, the son of a former ...

The government has canceled the publication declaration of ‘Jai Jai Din’ due to violations of publication regulations. Following a complaint from the newspaper’s former editor Shafik Rehman, Dhaka District Magistrate and Deputy Commissioner Tanvir Ahmed issued the order on March 10. The information was confirmed on Wednesday (March 12) by Nusrat Naushin, Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate (Publication and Printing ...

The traffic division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has filed 1,533 cases for violating traffic laws in different areas of the capital. Deputy Commissioner (DC) of the DMP’s Media and Public Relations Division Muhammad Talebur Rahman confirmed this information on Wednesday (March 12) afternoon. He said that these cases were filed during the DMP’s traffic division’s drive last Tuesday (March 11). ...

Slain former vice-principal of Habibullah Bahar College Saifur Rahman Bhuiyan had sexually assaulted Rupa Begum alias Jannati which led to the killing. Md Nazim Hossain, 21, and Jannati, 23, who were arrested on charge of killing of Saifur Rahman, informed that they met with Saifur at Kamalapur Rail Station in the capital few days ago losing their money and bags. ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge court on Tuesday ordered the seizure of multiple properties owned by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her family members following a prayer of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The order was issued on Tuesday by Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib, includes the confiscation of Sudha Sadan, Sheikh Hasina’s private residence in ...