UNB, Dhaka
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami yesterday said his party would go to international forums, including human rights organizations, to seek justice if they are politically repressed and deprived of human rights in the name of holding trial of war criminals.“Government is trying to use the trial as a political instrument to make us [...]

বিবিসির এক সমীক্ষায় দেখা যাচ্ছে পাকিস্তানের উত্তর-পশ্চিমাঞ্চলের ৪০ শতাংশেরও কম এলাকা কেন্দ্রীয় সরকারের নিয়েন্ত্রণে রয়েছে৻ [Read more]

Fugitive Morshed Khan surrendered to the Special Court No 7 Sunday and sought bail in the case, while Judge Md Sirajul Islam heard the bail petition and rejected it. [Read more]

In the caption of a photo of some boats being carried by push carts published in our yesterday’s issue, the name of the shipping ministry was mentioned mistakenly. The ministry has sent a rejoinder denying its link with the boats. We regret the error. [Read more]

bdnews24.com, Dhaka
The government has once again extended the deadline, this time to May 31, for submission of prayers to cancel cases filed for ‘political harassment’. The home ministry yesterday issued a circular, its public relations officer Md Shahenoor Miah Shaheen told bdnews24.com. Earlier, in April, the deadline had been extended until May 17. District-level scrutiny [...]

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Thousands of Bangladeshis joined funeral prayers at Dhaka’s largest mosque Sunday for the husband of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who died at the age of 70 a day earlier. [Read more]

The ailing husband of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has died. [Read more]

With mainstream journalists barred from Sri Lanka’s war zone, Tamil expatriates desperate for news of loved ones have turned to small Web sites for reports and video from across the front lines. [Read more]

Staff Reporter
Shipping Minister Dr Afsarul Amin yesterday said that the Government would take initiative to start major dredging in river and seaport channels to ensure commercial loading and unloading of goods smoothly through waterways. He said this to the reporters after a courtesy call with the US Ambassador to Dhaka James F Mariaty at [...]