The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday indicted detained former Jamaat amir Ghulam Azam on 61 charges of crimes against humanity including murder, torture, conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity in atrocities committed during 1971 war of independence.Full story
More than 150 people, including cops and journalists, were injured at Chittagong and elsewhere in clashes between police and activists of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led 18-Party Alliance during its nationwide demonstrations on Sunday.Full story
The inquiry committee formed to probe the railway cash scam submitted its report on Sunday without taking statement of Ali Azam, the driver of the APS to ex-railways minister Suranjit Sengupta.Full story
At least 100 people were injured and more than 300 apparel factories were closed for the day as garment workers fought pitched battles with the police at Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital for the second consecutive day on Sunday.Full story
The finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Sunday said politicisation in the administration, especially in the police department, was ‘a matter of concern’.
He expressed his concern at a pre-budget parley...Full story
Senior journalists of the print and electronic media on Sunday urged government action against agencies that have failed to trace and arrest the killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.Full story
The High Court is yet to dispose of three rules it issued earlier regarding traffic accidents while such accidents continued killing at least nine people in a day.
‘The bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice...Full story
Gunmen shot dead a top Afghan peace negotiator in the capital Kabul on Sunday, the police said, dealing a massive blow to the country’s attempts to negotiate a peace deal with Taliban insurgents.Full story
A labour court in Rajshahi on Sunday issued warrant for the arrest of city mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, also an Awami League leader, and three officers of the city corporation on charge of contempt of court.Full story
Having been assured by the home minister of taking necessary security steps, apparel manufacturers on Sunday decided to keep their factories open in the troubled Ashulia area from today...Full story
The chief metropolitan magistrate’s court in Dhaka on Sunday allowed the driver of the bus that on Friday killed journalist Bibhas Chandra Saha to be remanded in police custody for three days for interrogation in a case filed on charge of culpable homicide.Full story
A third bench of the High Court on Sunday gave 32 opposition alliance leaders including, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, three days to surrender in the magistrate’s court...Full story
A Bangladeshi Rotarian was found dead and two others were lying unconscious in a Pattaya hotel room in Thailand on Friday, reports online news agency pattayanews.com.Full story
The finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Sunday again dismissed charges of corruption in the bidding process of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project saying the second allegation by the World Bank was...Full story
International community can play a role in creating favourable conditions for repatriation of Rohingyas to their homes in Myanmar in dignity and freedom, foreign minister Dipu Moni said on Sunday. Full story
NATO took a step closer to getting out of the Afghan war on Sunday as the
Kabul government announced local forces would take over control of security in a large new slice of the country.Full story
A gas pipe line caught fire at Jatrabari while it licked by a drill machine used for construction of a flyover early on Sunday.
The fire broke out at about 1:15am while flyover construction...Full story
People of Modhukhali upazila town blocked the Dhaka-Khulna highway from 10-30am to 11am on Sunday protesting load-shedding and demanding uninterrupted power supply.Full story
The police Sunday searched the city’s Moghbazar office of a Bengali daily Sangram to arrest the Ramna thana amir of the Jamaat-e-Islam, Rezaul Karim, in connection with a case relating...Full story
A local Juba League leader was killed in an explosion when suspected miscreants hurled bombs at his house at Arpara village in Sadar upazila of Gopalganj early Sunday.
The dead is Rezaul Karim SFull story
Tawhid Sheikh, 35, Dighalia upazila unit Juba League leader, was hacked to death by identified miscreants at Gazirhat in the upazila on Saturday evening.
Locals said Tawhid along with his...Full story