Bangladesh

Hearing on leave to appeal against the High Court order that scrapped the petition seeking cancellation of money laundering case proceedings against Dr Muhammad Yunus and six Grameen Telecom officers will be held on September 2. A five-member Appellate Division benched, led by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, set the date on Thursday. Senior lawyer Abdullah Al Mamun and Khaza ...

A court in Dhaka on Thursday placed former prime minister’s adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq on a five-day fresh remand in a case filed for killing Sumon Shikder in the capital’s Uttar Badda during the Quota Reform Movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nurul Huda Chowdhury granted the remand following a 10-day remand prayer of the investigation ...

The Meghalaya Police have recovered the decomposed body of Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna from a betelnut plantation in Jaintia Hills district bordering Bangladesh, according to PTI reported quoting a police official. The body was found on August 26 evening, around 1.5 km from the IndiA-Bangladesh border. Panna was identified through his passport, the police official told PTI. ...

Former commerce minister Tipu Munshi was arrested from the capital’s Gulshan area early Thursday over the killing of a worker in Rangpur during the Quota Reform Movement. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested him from a house in Gulshan-1 and later, shown him arrested in the murder case. ANM Emran Khan, assistant director of the Legal and Media wing of RAB ...

The death toll from the recent flood has risen to 31 with four more deaths in Cumilla, Noakhali and Feni district. Among the deceased, twelve people died in Cumilla, five in Chattogram , two in Feni, six in Noakhali, three in Cox’s Bazar and one each in Brahmanbaria, Khagrachhari and Lakshmipur districts and two people still remain missing in Moulvibazar ...

The interim government has withdrawn the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir. The Public Security Division of the Home Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on Wednesday. It stated that the government cancelled the notification issued on August 24, 2024 banning Jamaat as it did not find any specific information and evidence about Bangladesh ...

The banning order of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir was withdrawn on Wednesday (August 28). A gazette in this regard publishes anytime. On August 1, Jamaat-Shibir was banned by the previous Awami League-led government. And Public Security Division of the Home Ministry published a gazette notification in this regard. Jamaat’s lawyer Adv Mohammad Shishir Manir said that the government has ...

A Supreme Court lawyer on Wednesday filed a case against seven judges, including three former chief justices, for contempt of court. Adv Yunus Ali Akand filed the case with the relevant branch of the High Court this morning. The three chief justices are Syed Mahmud Hossain, Hasan Foez Siddique and Obaidul Hasan, while the four judges are Md Iman Ali, ...

The body of a newsroom editor at the private TV channel GTV has been recovered from Hatirjheel lake in the capital. The deceased was identified as Rahanuma Sarah, 32. She used live at a rented house with her husband in the city’s Kalyanpur area. According to passerby Sagar, who rescued Rahanuma from the lake, said he found the floating body ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) acting Chairman Tarique Rahman was acquitted from a defamation case filed in Gopalganj on 2014. Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohammad Shahadat Hossain Bhuiyan issued the acquittal order on Tuesday (August 27) afternoon. According to the case details, on December 17, 2014, accusations were made that Tarique Rahman had made derogatory remarks about the Awami League. Following this, ...