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A Dhaka court has sentenced a superintendent of railway police (SP) to life in jail in an extortion case. Judge Md Motahar Hossain of the third Special Judge’s Court handed down the verdict on Thursday. Superintendent of Railway Police Mostafa Kamal, now posted in Syedpur, was awarded 30 years imprisonment for breaching faith as a public ... Read more

Winter is yet to arrive fully, but people living in the sub-Himalayan districts in northern Bangladesh have already started to feel the bite. The temperature slid to 9.8 degrees Celsius in the hill- and forest-clad north-eastern town of Srimangal on Thursday. Though it provided respite to

India and the United States tried Thursday to soothe a blistering row over the arrest and strip-search of a female diplomat in New York, saying it should not do lasting damage to ties. After US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed “regret” at the episode in a fence-mending phone call, India’s Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) says it is unwilling, at this moment, to launch probes into wealth statements of ruling party leaders, who are contesting in the January 5 national polls “To avoid any possible indiscipline in the country, we do not want to asses the wealth statements given by candidates in their affidavits before

Gazipur Factory Blaze Probe bodies fail to submit reports in time The four separate committees formed to investigate the fire in the garment factory of Standard Group at Konabari in Gazipur have been allowed time to submit their reports after they missed the deadlines to do so. Three of the four committees are yet to make ... Read more

The hearing on the case related to the Bay of Bengal maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and India concluded at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Netherlands on Monday. The Arbitral Tribunal constituted on the matter of the Bay of Bengal Maritime Boundary Arbitration between Bangladesh and India has just concluded its hearing ... Read more

President Robert Mugabe wants Victoria Falls to be renamed ‘the smoke that thunders’ to get rid of its colonial history. The president of Zimbabwe believes Victoria Falls does not reflect its liberation heritage. The waterfall, which is along the Zambezi River at the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia, is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It ... Read more

A court, on Wednesday, sentenced to death eight Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists, for the murder of tailor Biswajit Das, 24, at Shankharibazar in Old Dhaka a year ago. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 also awarded life terms to 13 others for the daylight killing that had shocked the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday strongly condemned the Pakistan National Assembly’s resolution expressing concern over the execution of Bangladesh’s war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah. “We strongly condemn it…there has been a trial of a war criminal in our country (Bangladesh) what’s Pakistan’s business in it? Why are they (Pakistanis) so compassionate

Govt must resign for inclusive polls, says Fakhrul BNP has renewed its call to the government to step down for ensuring an inclusive and acceptable general election under a non-partisan interim administration. “If the government does not quit power paving the way for inclusive and acceptable polls, the people will intensify movement immediately,”

Stray incidents of violence marked the second day of the 72-hour-long nationwide blockade programme, called by the BNP-led 18-Party alliance, on Wednesday. The opposition alliance called the blockade, demanding that the next election be held under a non-party poll-time administration and that the already announced date for the 10th parliamentary election be

Dr Imran H Sarker, convener of the Ganajagaran Mancha has urged the government to cut diplomatic ties with Pakistan unless Islamabad apologises for condemning the execution of its collaborator, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah, on charges of crimes against humanity during the liberation war. Otherwise, he announced the Mancha activists would stage

There is a speculation among the Jatiya Party (JP) leaders and activists that their party Chairperson HM Ershad is likely to send abroad for treatment under state arrangement. Members of the RAB picked Ershad up from his Baridhara residence on December 12 and took him to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for treatment,

A high-powered delegation of the European Union (EU) will arrive in Dhaka any moment to assess the challenges to holding the 10th parliamentary election, and to inspect the pre-election environment and Election Commission’s (EC) measures to implement the electoral codes. “A pre-assessment team will arrive in Dhaka to examine the election environment. Although

India vowed Wednesday to bring one of its diplomats home at any price after her arrest in New York, as she told how she broke down in tears after being stripped and cavity-searched. As a leading daily hailed the government for “taking on Uncle Sam”, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid pledged to “restore the dignity” of ... Read more

Shipping and War of Liberation Affairs Minister Shahjahan Khan on Wednesday said the government will give protection to all vehicles that will ply on highways from Friday defying the opposition blockade programme. “We have decided to operate all types of transport, including the long-distance buses, from Friday during the opposition’s hartal and blockade

One of the suspects of Tuesday’s killing of two construction workers at Badda was killed in a shootout with police in the capital’s Rampura area on Wednesday afternoon. Police said Mohammad Sohag, 26, received bullet wounds during an exchange of gunshots and succumbed to his injuries at Orthopaedic Hospital

Singapore plans to deport 53 people and issue warnings to about 200 more for their involvement in the city-state’s worst riot in more than 40 years this month, which shocked a nation that prides itself on its safety and orderliness. Another 28 face criminal charges for the riot, which broke out earlier this month in ... Read more

Dan Mozena, the United States Ambassador to Dhaka, held a meeting with Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Wednesday to discuss issues with regards to the security of the US embassy as well its personnel. During the meeting the US envoy had voiced his deep concern over the security of the embassy and its staffs ... Read more

The Election Commission (EC) has sought support from the Army, BGB and police to transport electoral equipment across the country as it felt that the regular surveillance of law enforcement agency is not adequate to ensure safety for transporting poll-related papers and equipment. Following the recent sporadic violence, triggered by the BNP-led 18-Party Alliance’s