Staff ReporterThe Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and former Minister Maulana Motiur Rahman Nizami yesterday addressed the opening of a day-long conference of District Ameers of Jamaat-e-Islami held at Magbazar Al-Falah auditorium in the capital. In his address the Ameer-e-Jamaat said, that the present Caretaker Government has been reconstituted after declarance of state of emergency. This [...]

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European air travellers to Britain will be screened with automatic facial recognition technology from this summer in a bid to tighten security and ease congestion, the government said Friday. [Read more]

Bangladesh Supreme Court has ruled that the High Court has no jurisdiction to grant bail in criminal cases under the Emergency Power Rules 2007. [Read more]

Court Correspondent
A court of Dhaka yesterday received First Information Report (FIR) in connection with a graft case against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s younger son Arafat Rahman Koko and fixed May 25 for submission of the inquiry report.Md Abu Sayeed, Deputy Director of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case against Koko with Ramna Thana of [...]

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BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain demanded the resignations of the Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda, and two other commissioners. [Read more]

UNB, Dhaka
A special court that deals with high-profile corruption cases yesterday jailed former BNP Minister Shajahan Siraj for 13 years in a graft case.The court also sentenced his wife Rabeya Siraj to three years imprisonment as co-accused.Both were tried in absentia, as the entire Siraj family has been hiding since the current purge against corruption [...]

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International concern mounted as world oil prices edged closer to 120 dollars a barrel Wednesday and the world’s top producer called for calm. [Read more]