HARTAL today, tomorrow
The Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 48-hour countrywide shutdown from today protesting a death sentence handed down by the Supreme Court on its leader Abdul Quader Mollah for war crimes. With this, the...
View ArticleReview or no review?
While some legal experts say there is scope for Quader Mollah to file a review petition against his death sentence, the law minister and the attorney general argue the Jamaat leader was tried under a...
View ArticleDeprived of justice
“We are deprived of justice. I am frustrated. I hope we will get justice from Allah.” This is how Quader Mollah’s eldest son Hasan Jamil reacted to the apex court verdict sentencing his father to death...
View ArticleThe crime that gets him death
Even a two-year-old boy was not spared by Abdul Quader Mollah and his accomplices on March 26, the first day of the Liberation War in 1971. They killed the boy, hitting him against the ground, slit the...
View ArticleReply to V sign
Seven months ago, little did Abdul Quader Mollah know that victory would change hands, as he flashed a V sign with a broad smile when the war crimes tribunal awarded him a life term. Through the...
View ArticleGALLOWS now for MOLLAH
The Supreme Court yesterday sentenced Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah to death, overruling the judgment of International Crimes Tribunal-2 that had given him life term for war crimes committed in...
View ArticleSyrian ‘proof’ of rebel chemical use
Syria has given Russia new “material evidence” that opposition fighters in the Syrian conflict have used chemical weapons, a Russian minister has said. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also said...
View ArticleObama wants to test Iran president’s interest in dialogue
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Iran’s new President Hassan Rouhani appears to want to open a dialogue with the United States and that he is willing to test whether this is the case....
View ArticleBrazilian president calls off US trip
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off a state visit to Washington next month in a row over allegations of US espionage. The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been accused of...
View ArticleTony Abbott sworn in as Australia prime minister
Tony Abbott has been sworn in as Australia’s prime minister, days after his Liberal-National coalition ended six years of Labor government. Abbott, 55, took the oath at Government House in Canberra in...
View Article16 killed in Venezuela prison violence
At least 16 prisoners have been killed in violence inside a jail in the western Venezuelan city of Maracaibo. Fifteen inmates died in fights between rival gangs, Prisons Minister Iris Varela said. The...
View ArticleMan killed in pickets’ attack
A driver of CNG-run three-wheeler was killed when pickets threw stones at him in Companyganj upazila of Noakhali during the Jamaat-enforced 48-hour countrywide hartal on Wednesday. Police identified...
View ArticleSlack hartal in capital
Law enforcers did not allow the pickets to take to the streets and carry out vandalism in the capital Wednesday as Jamaat enforced a hartal (shutdown) to protest the Supreme Court verdict on its leader...
View ArticleStocks nosedive
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse plunged on Wednesday, to continue a losing streak of the last two days. DSEX, the benchmark general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
View ArticleMollah to seek stay on SC verdict execution
Abdul Quader Mollah will appeal with the Supreme Court seeking stay on the execution of its verdict awarding him death penalty, the condemned Jamaat leader’s counsels said Wednesday. “We will file the...
View ArticleSix-storey building tilts in Ctg
A six-storey residential building tilted in Chittagong city on Wednesday, prompting the residents to evacuate. The building, owned by one Mojibul Haque, leaned towards the front side on Akmal Ali Road...
View Article50 hurt in RMG worker-cop clash in Gazipur
At least 50 garments workers were injured Wednesday when they clashed with law enforcers on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur demanding a minimum monthly wage of Tk 8,000. The one-hour clash erupted...
View Article‘Jamaat men’ shoot cop in Satkania
A constable was shot when the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, allegedly opened fire on police personnel in Satkania upazila of Chittagong during the...
View ArticleGovt gives in to truckers’ pressure
Reckless drivers will not have to face the charge for killings from now on, Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir said Wednesday as the government takes move not to term this kind of deaths as...
View ArticleOttawa bus-train crash kills 5
At least five people have been killed after a passenger train collided with a bus in Ottawa at a rail crossing, officials have said. The crash between a double-decker bus and a Via Rail train occurred...
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