DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges against Bangla daily ‘Amar Desh’ acting editor Mahmudur Rahman and eight others in an arson case.Dhaka additional metropolitan magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh indicted them after the charge hearing.The other key accused include Anwaruzzaman

BRAHMANBARIA: Police have arrested Jamaat-e-Islami Sarail upazila unit ameer Kutub Uddin in Brahmanbaria district.He was picked up from Kazipara of the district town on Thursday morning.Brahmanbaria assistant police super (ASP) Tapas Ranjan Ghosh said Kutub Uddin is accused in several

DHAKA: Speedy Trail Tribunal-1 has sentenced four BNP leaders and activists to hang in a case of killing two ruling Awami League (AL) activists.Moreover, one BNP man get life term imprisonment and nine others in different terms in the case.Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 judge Sahed Nur

PABNA: A district court has granted a 5-day remand for the chief accused of Father Luke Sarkar attempt to murder case and also Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) regional commander Raqibul Islam.Pabna cognizance court-2 judge and also chief judicial magistrate Rezaul Karim passed the

DHAKA: Investigation agency of International Crimes Tribunal has finalized probe report against two alleged Razakars Idris Ali and Solaiman Mollah of Shariatpur for crimes against humanity during liberation war. In the final report, four counts of charges, including killing, genocide,

DHAKA: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed announced the date of Moulvibazar-3 by-poll on December 8.He made this announcement at a press conference held at Election Commission (EC) media center in city Thursday noon.According to the CEC, the last date of nomination

DHAKA: BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury has resigned from the party.Shamsher Mobin told the media that he has sent a resignation letter to the party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday night.He also sent a letter to party chairperson Khaleda Zia

NILPHAMARI: A district court on Wednesday sent 62 leaders and activists of local unit BNP to jail in a case filed over the attack on the motorcade of cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor at Ramganj Bazar of sadar upazila of Nilphamari district on December 14 of 2013.Judge Motaharat

DHAKA: Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that some other politicians including BNP leader and also former ward commissioner MA Qaiyum are also in the list of suspicion in the incidents of killing two foreign nationals in the country.He made this comment to the media after a

KISHOREGANJ: A district court on Wednesday sent BNP’s 95 leaders and activists, including its senior vice-president of Kishoreganj district unit Shariful Islam, to jail in 11 cases.Kishoreganj special judge court magistrate Muhammad Mahubub-ul Islam and additional special judge Muhammad

DHAKA: Police in separate drives detained 21 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir from different places of the city.During the drives conducted in Mirpur, Jatrabari, Shah Ali, Mohammadpur, Adabar between Tuesday night and Wednesday noon, law

DHAKA: A Dhaka court framed charge against BNP standing committee member Dr Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case.Judge of the Special Judge Court-1 Ataur Rahman passed the indictment order in the case filed by Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday.The court also

DHAKA: Police, in a drive, detained eight activists of Jamaat-e-Islami with cocktails at Pireerbagh in capital’s Mirpur area early Wednesday.Identity of the detainees could not be known immediately. Mirpur Model Thana police claimed that the Jamaat men were planning to create subversive

MYMENSINGH: Detective Branch (DB) of police on Tuesday detained five activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, while holding a clandestine meeting at Kewatkhali area of the Sadar town.The detainees were identified as Nasim, 24, Saleh Uddin, 25, Shafiqul, 25,

DHAKA: A court of chamber judges on Tuesday postponed Tangail-4 (Kalihati) by poll.Moreover, the court sent Election Commission (EC)’s appeal to the High Court to stay its order over the legality of Abdul Kader Siddique’s nomination paper to the full bench of Appellate

JESSORE: Police arrested 81 accused of different cases, conducting drives in different parts of Jessore district.Jessore district police control room on-duty policeman Sabbir Hossain told banglanews that the drives were conducted from Monday night to Tuesday morning.One of the detainees

RAJSHAHI: A court on Monday handed down life term imprisonment to a former secretary of Rajshahi University (RU) unit Islami Chhatra Shibir in an arms case.Speedy Trial Tribunal judge of Rajshahi Golam Ahmed Khalilur Rahman passed the verdict against the Shibir leader, Saifuddin Yahiya.In

BRAHMANBARIA: A district court on Monday sent 44 leaders and activists, including the president and general secretary of Brahmanbaria unit of BNP to jail in 13 cases filed under explosives, sabotage, attacking police and speedy trial acts.District and session judge Qawsar issued the order

DHAKA: International Crime Tribunal (ICT) farmed charges against eight war crimes suspects of Jamalpur district on seven counts of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s war of independence.The three-member tribunal led by its chairman Justice Anwarul Haque passed the

CHITTAGONG: Police arrested as many as 237 people including 16 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in port city Chittagong on Monday.The overnight drive was conducted on Sunday.Chittagong additional police super (Special Branch) Muhammad Naimul Hasan