Shilpakala Academy Director General Syed Jamil resigns
Faridpur OC arrested over BNP activists' torture
DHAKA: Detained Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee will be produced before the international crimes tribunal (ICT) on September 21 when the war-crime-trial proceedings will resume.“The tribunal again directed the prison authorities to produce the detained Sayedee
DHAKA: No war-crime suspects would be allowed to perform Hajj this year, Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun said Tuesday following a government decision, as the trial of war criminals is now underway in the country. “The persons allegedly involved in crimes against humanity during
DHAKA: The Supreme Court set October 11 as the next date of hearing on a contempt of court charge against detained acting editor of the Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman.A six-member full bench, headed by chief justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim adjourned the hearing till the date Tuesday as Mahmudur
DHAKA: The sixth death anniversary of Awami League leader Ivy Rahman will be observed Tuesday.Ivy Rahman, wife of President Zillur Rahman, was severely injured in the August 21 gruesome grenade attack on an AL rally in 2004 and died on August 24. Ivy Rahman served as the Awami League
DHAKA: The High Court asked the authorities concerned to submit by September 27 all documents on opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s leasehold Dhaka cantonment residence which has come under eviction notice served by the present government. A High Court bench comprising Justice Najmun Ara
DHAKA: A High Court order for constituting food court and recruiting public analyst or food expert in the districts to prevent food adulteration is yet to be implemented even after the lapse of a year. Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed was unaware of such an HC order.“I don’t know
KISHOREGANJ: A Kishoreganj court Monday sent ULFA leader Major Ranjan Chowdhury and his associate Pradip Marak to jail. Magistrate Md Ali Ahsan of Senior Judicial Court of Kishoreganj passed the order as they were produced before the court.The magistrate also asked police to submit
DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was learnt to have asked her ministers and party MPs to be sincere in discharging their duties or else none would be spared if found guilty.“I won’t spare anybody if found guilty,” she was quoted as saying in a note of warning during Monday’s
DHAKA: The cabinet Monday approved the proposed Dhaka Elevated Expressway from the airport to the Dhaka-Chittagong-highway point under a gigantic scheme for resolving the nagging traffic congestions in the capital city. As approved, the elevated expressway runs through Hazrat Shahjalal
COMILLA: A bus carrying the students of Comilla University ran over a passerby in Mogoltuli area in the district town on Monday morning.Witnesses, said the bus ran over the man at about 9am, killing him on the spot. After the accident, the bus driver, helper and the students left the
RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi University Chhatra League activist Nasirullah allies Nasim, sustained severe injuries during an intra-party clash on the campus on August 15, died at Dhaka Medical Collage Hospital (DMCH) Monday. RU proctor Prof Dr Chowdhury Mohammad Zakaria confirmed about the death of
DHAKA: The High Court Monday exonerated former minister and Chairman of Jatiya Party (Manju) Anwar Hossain Manju from conviction on charges of corruption overturning the judgment handed down by a special court during the emergency times.An HC bench of Justice Sayed Mohammad Dastagir
DHAKA: Amid some significant developments on the national front, the High Court Monday opened a process of review of the execution of military officer-turned-revolutionary Colonel Taher back during the days of political turmoil following the August 15, 1975 coup. The High Court issued
DHAKA: The High Court Monday reprimanded Moulvibazar’s Deputy Commissioner Md Mostafizur Rahman as the defiant DC eventually stood in the dock on a contempt charge.An HC bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh Mohammah Zakir Hossain kept the district
DHAKA: The administration imposed an indefinite ban on street rallies and processions in the capital without prior permission, incidentally, a day before opposition BNP stages demonstrations under a two-day protest programme. “This order takes effect from Monday and lasts until further
DHAKA: The High Court Monday rejected a writ petition filed by two detained Jamaat leaders challenging the legality of some provisions of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Act and the first amendment to the constitution. An HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad Abdul Wahhub Mia and
DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday granted bail to Fazlul Haq Amini, former lawmaker and Chairman of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ), and another six accused in a house-grabbing case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court’s judge Abdur Rahim passed the order as the accused surrendered before the court
DHAKA: Separate courts Monday granted bail to Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan in two more cases. With the latest two, he got bail in all seven ‘harassment’ cases filed against him. The hearings for the cases took place in the Additional Metropolitan Magistrates courts of
CHITTAGONG: A head-on collision between a truck and a bus on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Sitakunda upazila on Monday morning left two people killed and another three injured.The deceased were named as bus driver Yasin of Noakhali district and truck driver Joynal of Feni.Witnesses said
HABIGANJ: A worker was killed as a tractor crushed him on Monday in Machhulia Bridge area near Khoai River.The deceased was identified as Amir Ali, 24, son of late Idris Ali of Enatabad village under Sadar upazila.Witnesses said Amir fell down from the sand laden tractor and died on the