DHAKA: Six people ordered to walk gallows and two jailed for life for killing office assistant of Rajarbagh police telecom Shamsul Haider in broad daylight in 2006. Judge of Dhaka-1 speedy trial tribunal Shahed Nur Uddin passed the order on Tuesday noon. The death convicts are—Babul,

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 Tuesday awarded death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam for committing crimes against humanity and other offences during the 1971 Liberation War. A three-member judge panel led by Justice Enayetur

HABIGANJ: Sylhet City Corporation mayor Ariful Haq Chowdhury surrendered at a Habiganj court on Tuesday morning in former Finance Minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case.  Sources told banglanews that he surrendered before the Habiganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Rokeya Akter’s Court

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT) has started reading out its verdict in war crimes cases against Jamaat Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam on Tuesday. ICT-1 chairman Justice Enayetur Rahimon has been reading the summary of 158-page verdict. Earlier in the day,

DHAKA: Activists of Ganajagaran Mancha gathered in Shahbagh with the demand of capital punishment for Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general ATM Azharul Islam for his alleged crimes against humanity in 1971. The Mancha activists started to gather there in front of the National

DINAJPUR: Five persons were killed and over a dozen injured in road accident in Daspara area under Briganj upazila on Tuesday morning. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Birganj Thana Belal Hossain said

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered 25 live handmade bombs in East Chunakhali area under Sadar upazila of the district on Tuesday morning. Locals and RAB sources said, acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-5 raided a garden in the area around 7:00am and recovered the

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal, adjacent to the High Court in the city, has been covered under a tight security ahead of the verdict in alleged war crimes cases against Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam. Sources told banglanews that the security

DHAKA: Alleged war criminal against Jamaat Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam was taken to the court as the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT) is set to pronounce its verdict in a war crime cases against him.He was taken to the court around 9:00am in prison van. On

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 is set to pronounce the verdict in war crimes case against Jamaat Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam on Tuesday.The tribunal on Monday the kept the case on the top of the cause list for Tuesday.On September 18, the court kept the

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the people country do not want any conflict rather they want peace.“Our key goal is to build a peaceful country where people of all walks of life will stay happily,” she said.The PM was addressing the inaugural program on the occasion

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JESSORE: A Bangladeshi died after falling off roof during working in Firozabad of Malaysia on December 28 evening.The deceased was identified as Abdul Kuddus, 40, son of Abdus Samad, resident of Monirampur of the district.Family sources confirmed the matter to banglanews saying Kuddus

DHAKA: Bangladesh ambassador to Vietnam Shahab Ullah presented his credentials to Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on Monday. Receiving the ambassador, the President expressed his satisfaction and said, in his tenure, the friendly relations between

DHAKA: Bangladesh Railway authorities on Monday sued the driver of cargo lorry that killed at least six people after it hit a train in city’s Kamalapur area.Railway senior deputy assistant engineer Abdul Matin Mandal filed the case with Government Railway Police (GRP) Kamalapur Thana in

DHAKA: The ferry service carrying shipping minister Shahjahan Khan resumed after 12 hours of halt due to dense fog in Mawa-Kawrakandi route on Monday.The services resumed around 11:00am.Mawa ghat sources said the minister was returning Dhaka from Madaripur on Sunday. On the way,

DHAKA: Immediate after the collision between a train and a freight lorry at Kamalapur Railway Station, Railway Minister Mujibul Haque termed the accident only accident.“The accident is accident,” he said while talking to journalist at the spot immediate after the accident.He, however,

JESSORE: Motor workers have called for a 48-hour long transport strike, starting from Wednesday dawn, on 32 routes of 10 districts in Khulna Division.The districts are Bagerhat, Chuadanga, Jessore, Jhenaidah, Khulna, Kushtia, Magura, Meherpur, Narail and Satkhira.Sources told banglanews

DHAKA: The government is going to establish a specialized public university in Gazipur. The cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of Digital University, Bangladesh Act 2014’ for establishing the university.  The approval came from a meeting of the cabinet with Prime

DHAKA: At least six people, including a woman, were killed and 10 others injured as a freight lorry hit a train at Kamalapur area in city on Monday noon.Of the deceased, three were identified as Nayeem Islam, 15, son of M Yunus of Bakerganj upazila under Barisal district, Mujibur Rahman,