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WAR CRIMES Yusuf indicted for genocide, murder Jamaat leader and the alleged founder of the infamous Razakar Bahini in 1971 AKM Yusuf was handed 13-count indictments Thursday in the International Crimes Tribunal-2 for charges involving 1971 crimes against humanity. Yusuf faces seven charges of genocide, one charge

REAZUL MURDER Another suspect in hiding: lawmen The whereabouts of Shakhawat Hossain Chanchal, who on Wednesday was expelled from the Juba League for his suspected involvement in the killing of Juba League leader Reazul Haque Khan Milky early Tuesday, could not be traced till Thursday, law enforcement officials and party leaders said. They said that ... Read more

The High Court on Thursday directed Rajdhani Unnayan Kartiripakkha to stop land development or monetary work for a Purbachal housing project in Gazipur until it obtains an environmental clearance for the project. The court, in response to a petition, also issued a rule asking the authorities to explain in four weeks why the layout plan ... Read more

A 27-year-old businessman was killed and at least 10 people were injured with bullets as the police clashed with businessmen at Taherpur of Baghmara in Rajshahi on Thursday afternoon. The clash began as the police fired into a procession of apparel traders who brought out a rally protesting at police harassment in the name of ... Read more

Allies demand ban on Jamaat’s politics The Awami League welcomed the High Court’s ruling declaring illegal the registration of Jamaat-e-Islami but its allies said they thought it was ‘not enough’ though the verdict paved way for banning political outfits like Jamaat. Immediately after the ruling, a state minister said

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday was tight-lipped on the High Court verdict that declared illegal the registration of Jamaat-e-Islami, a key ally of BNP. When approached, none one of the party’s senior leaders wanted to make comments on the issue.

Terming the killing of two people, including HM Zahid Siddique alias Tarek, an alleged killer of Juba League leader Riazul Haque Khan Milky, in Wednesday’s crossfire a ‘stage-managed’ drama of RAB, the minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta on Thursday said Awami League does not support any extrajudicial killing.

Environment minister and publicity secretary of ruling Awami League Hasan Mahmud on Thursday defended the Rapid Action Battalion’s statement on killing of a Juba League leader in ‘crossfire’. He said RAB’s statement on the killings of Juba League leader HM Jahidul Islam Tarek, the prime suspect in the killing of another

The defence for the detained BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury on Thursday began the closing arguments saying that Salauddin client was facing the war crimes trial because of he was son of the late Muslim League leader Fazlul Quader Chowdhury. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member,

An Indonesian container ship bound for Chittagong port on Monday got stranded in Andaman Sea near Myanmar coast due to engine failure after water entered the ship through a crack, port and shipping officials said. Trouble hit MV Gladys on Monday as its engine went out of order after sea water entered the engine room ... Read more

Khaldea Zia, the leader of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party now in Saudi Arabia, performed Umrah in Makkah early on Thursday and prayed for welfare of Bangladesh and the Muslim Ummah. She, along with her entourage including her younger brother Shamim Eskendar and his wife, performed Umrah at about 3:10am Saudi local time on Thursday, sources ... Read more

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against six Sonali Bank officials and one entrepreneur over their alleged link with swindling of around Tk 1 crore from the bank’s Gulshan branch through fake documents. The bank officials embezzled the money through some fake land deeds as mortgage against Fahim Attire Limited from 2008 to ... Read more

Jubo League Leader Killing ‘Murderer’ killed in Rab ‘shootout’ In a dramatic development, Jahid Siddique Tarek, who allegedly shot dead Jubo League leader Riazul Haque Khan Milky early Tuesday, was killed in a “shootout” between his cohorts and Rab at Kaola in the capital last night. The elite force was taking Tarek, joint secretary of Dhaka ... Read more

Foreign Students in Bangladesh Number declines in public univs, increases in pvt univs The number of foreign students in public universities is decreasing while such enrolment on private universities is increasing. According to the University Grants Commission, there were 210 foreign students in public universities in 2011, 359 in 2010 and 390 in 2009. In private ... Read more

PM urges people The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday called upon the people to cast vote for Awami League in the next polls in the interest of the development of the country. ‘Make the Awami League victorious in the next elections as the country witnesses massive development and the people get something when the ... Read more

Dhaka City Polls Schedules HC wants explanation from govt, EC The High Court on Wednesday wanted to know in four weeks from the government and the Election Commission why they would not be directed to announce the schedule for holding the stalled mayoral elections in Dhaka North and Dhaka South cities. A bench of Justice ... Read more

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday sought votes from people of the north for the Awami League if they wanted continuity in the development of the region and a permanent relief from ‘monga.’ Monga refers to two periods in a year, September–November and March–April when poverty and hunger loom in the ... Read more

The ruling Awami League came first in earning and spending as a party in 2012 while the Jamaat-e-Islami ranked second as most political parties submitted audit reports on their annual financial transactions to the Election Commission. The Jatiya Party, a partner of the ruling alliance, ranked third while the main opposition, the

The acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said that they would not would not oppose Sajeeb Wazed Joy’s joining politics but suggested that he should exercise ‘decent’ language in politics. Fakhrul, addressing a meeting, said that he did not know for how many days

The High Court is scheduled for today to pronounce its verdict on two writ petitions challenging the legality of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s registration with the Election Commission as a political party. The cause list, the list of the cases to be dealt with by the courts, for today, published on Wednesday included the writ petitions ... Read more