Sirajganj: A defamation case was filed here Wednesday against State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam for calling BNP founder President Ziaur Rahman ‘Pakistani spy’.District Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum general secretary Advocate Meer Ruhul Amin filed the Tk 5,000 crore case with Sirajganj

DHAKA: A coalition of campaigners for women’s rights urged mass media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to work with a synergy in tackling the incidents of sexual harassment of women at workplace. At a workshop Wednesday they also underscored the need for creating awareness

Rajbari: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday night stormed a hideout of suspected outlaws and seized firearms and ammunition at Radhakantapur in the district town.Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-8 raided the house of one Nihar Ranjan at about 9pm and seized six firearms, five

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute reopened Wednesday after nearly five months’ forced closure following the killing of a student leader amid campus violence on January 7.The polytechnic authorities have now made it mandatory for the students to wear specific uniform and bear

DHAKA: The High Court Tuesday dismissed a case facing 12 pro-Awami League and leftist lawyers for vandalizing the Supreme Court, a charge that stood in the way of one of them being sworn in the bench. A division bench of Justice Shamsul Huda and Justice Abu Bakar Siddique passed the

DHAKA: Militants are getting prepared to attack top leaders of the ruling party and on important establishments of the country, police Tuesday quoted the just-captured chief of a dreaded militant outfit as saying.The new chief of the banned Islamist outfit jama’atul Mujahideen

Dhaka: Rights campaigners Tuesday made a strong plea for allocating necessary money in the coming budget, support and appropriate guidelines from the next fiscal year protecting the rights of farmers, workers, the tribal and the disabled.  The call came from a press conference on

Dhaka: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad got 35 more days to make submission in writing in a Tk 60-crore defamation suit filed against him for torturing his estranged wife Bidisha Siddique.A Dhaka court Tuesday fixed June 30 as the latest date for submitting the statement. Judge Imrul Kayes

Dinajpur: On the third day of their strike, the striking casual workers of Madhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd went berserk and kept confined at least 35 officials and employees, including the managing director, inside the MGMCL residential complex since Monday night.The executives and

CHITTAGONG: Two terrors were beaten to death in a poetic justice after they along with their cohorts killed a young man at Halishahar in the port city early Tuesday.Police said the “terrorists” stabbed Nurunnabai to death over previous enmity at Badir Colony in Badsha Hazi Brickfield

DHAKA: The War Crime Facts Finding Committee handed over a list of 19 top war criminals to the International War Crimes Tribunal formed to try those who were involved in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.Among those on the list are BNP leaders Salahuddin Qader

DHAKA: The War Crime Facts Finding Committee handed over a list of 19 top war criminals to the International War Crimes Tribunal formed to try those who were involved in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.Among those on the list are BNP leaders Salahuddin Qader

DHAKA: As a High Court order prohibiting police from taking free ride on private vehicles went unheeded to, the HC Tuesday issued a suo moto rule asking the Government to explain why ‘car requisition’ took place again. An HC bench comprising justices HM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and

DHAKA: The 111th anniversary of birth of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was celebrated across the country Tuesday, paying high tributes to the revolutionary in real life and literature and culture. Nazrul, a poet, lyricist, composer, dramatist, short story writer, revolutionary thinker,

DHAKA: A coalition of human rights campaigners Tuesday condemned the ‘Vested Property Act’ as contradictory to the UN Human Rights Charter and the national constitution and demanded of the government to introduce the proposed amended law in the next parliament session.The demand came

Dhaka: A two-day Bangladesh Food Security Conference begins here tomorrow (Wednesday) to work out a coordinated investment plan for food security and increased investments for agricultural development.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the conference, organized by an investment

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday again deferred the date for framing charge against detained former State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar in a tax-evasion case, a fallout from the anti-corruption hunt kicked off by the past interim government.Judge Md. Nasir Uddin Mahmud of the

Dhaka: No general diary or case has yet been filed on the fight between a special police squad and Harkat-UL-Jihad (HUJI) militants in the capital’s Jurain area, two days after the nighttime clash. “Neither a case nor a GD was filed till Monday night,” said the investigation officer

Dhaka: A Dhaka court Tuesday framed charge against Jahanara Begum, former Primary and Mass Education Adviser to then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, in a graft case that stemmed from the massive anti-graft drive conducted under the past interim regime. After the indictment, judge Nasir Uddin

COMILLA: A sawmill owner was stabbed to death by some motor mechanics at Kalirbazar in sadar upazila on Monday night following a fracas over the repairing of a motorcycle.The dead was identified as Sohel, 20, of Kalirbar area.Associates of the mechanics also attacked a police vehicle and