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The global group Reporters Without Borders is proposing that attacks on journalists be considered war crimes by the International Criminal Court. The UN Security Council held informal talks on Friday on the protection of journalists amid alarm at the more than 50 killed so far this year. An

A space module carrying China’s first lunar rover is scheduled to land on the moon Saturday evening, state media said, in a huge step for the Asian superpower’s ambitious space programme, reports AFP. The spacecraft is expected to make touchdown at 9:40 pm (1340 GMT), state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) said, 12 days after ... Read more

122 alliance candidates set to be elected unopposed The Awami League-led grand alliance needs to win in only 29 constituencies to form government for the second straight time as 122 of the alliance candidates are set to be elected unopposed in the 10th parliamentary polls slated for January 5. If the election schedule remains unchanged, ... Read more

The nation will observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day today paying rich tributes to a galaxy of intellectuals systematically killed at the fag-end of the War of Liberation in 1971 to cripple the Bengalis aspiring after nationhood. Renowned academics, doctors, engineers, journalists, teachers and other eminent personalities were dragged out of their homes,

A day after Jatiya Party (JP) chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), JP presidium member and Ershad’s younger brother, GM Quader, alleged on Friday that his elder brother was taken to the hospital under unusual circumstances. Confirming Quader’s suspicion, Ershad on Friday issued a statement

3rd secretary-level meeting held Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said postponement of the election schedule is a must to prove the government’s sincerity towards fruitful talks. Khaleda said this at a meeting with party top leaders on Friday night right after the 3rd Awami League (AL) – BNP talks. During the party ... Read more

At least seven people were killed and 150 others injured in clashes across the country on Friday as activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir engaged in violence following the execution war crimes convict Abdul Quader Mollah, a top Jamaat leader, on Thursday night. Jamaat-Shibir men also went on a rampage in the ... Read more

I’m in detention at CMH, Ershad says in special message A day after Jatiya Party (JP) chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), JP presidium member and Ershad’s younger brother, GM Quader, alleged on Friday that his elder brother was taken to the hospital under unusual circumstances. Confirming Quader’s suspicion, Ershad ... Read more

After the execution of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah in a war crimes case, the United States has termed the current situation in Bangladesh a ‘sensitive moment’, and has urged all the political parties in the country to exercise restraint and refrain from violence. “We are aware that his (Quader Mollah’s) execution took place on ... Read more

Frequent nationwide shutdowns and non-stop blockades are causing immense inconvenience to thousands of students and their guardians as this is the time of the year when admission tests and final examinations in educational institutions are usually held. Terming the blockade as a destructive act, education minister Nurul Islam Nahid has expressed

A human skeleton and a skull were found at the site of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Savar on Friday afternoon. Police said street children found the human remains while collecting garbage at the site at around 5:00pm on Friday. An identity card belonging to Obaidul, a swing operator of the New Wave Bottoms ... Read more

“He is my only son… if he dies, how shall I live?” wept Asma Begum, the mother of Shanto, a class III student who sustained severe injuries from rubber bullets in the Mothijil-Fakirapul area around Friday noon — an instance of collateral damage in the fierce clashes between the police and Jamaat-Shibir activists in the ... Read more

Main opposition BNP has criticised the government for picking up Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad and said the JP Chief has suffered the consequence for not participating in the stage managed 10th parliamentary poll to fulfil the will of the Awami League. Demanding Ershad’s immediate release, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

‘Ershad not arrested’ The ruling Awami League senior leader Mohammad Nasim Friday urged the members of the law enforcement agencies to get tougher against the leaders and activists of Jamaat-Shibir. “The law enforcers should take stern action against the Jamaat-Shibir activists so that they cannot stand politically in the country,” he said while addressing a ... Read more

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad Friday hinted that the scope for an election with participation of all political party on January 5 is getting thin with the passage of time. “It’s going to be difficult, but the scope is there always. If all (political parties) reach a realistic decision, then they’ll tell us how ... Read more

The ruling Awami League on Friday requested the Election Commission to allocate its election symbol ‘boat’ to 10 candidates from its three alliance partners to contest the January-5 general election. Of the 10 candidates, four each are from Bangladesh Workers’ Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasad, and two from Tarikat Federation. The candidates are

Mohammad Zahirul Haque, the chief train controller of Bangladesh Railway, Dhaka has been suspended for providing wrong information to news media about rail communications. He was suspended on Friday following an order issued by railways minister Mohammad Mazibul Hoque, said a press release. The release

War crimes convict Abdul Quader Molla, also an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, was hanged Thursday night at Dhaka Central Jail amid heightened security. The jail authorities executed Quader, convicted of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, after the government

At least six people, four in Lakshmipur, died in violence as law enforcers fired into blockaders and blockaders attacked vehicles on the last of the 144-hour countrywide blockade of road, railway and waterways the opposition started enforcing on Saturday. Four died in Lakshmipur as the Rapid Action Battalion

The supply of urea and non urea fertilisers to the dealers has drastically dropped due to severe road communication disruptions caused by the nationwide blockade, officials said. They, however, said that there were sufficient fertilisers in the stocks at the national level. They also said that unscrupulous fertilizer traders