Avijit murder bears extremist hallmark Citizens mourn the free-thinking blogger, Ansar Bangla-7 gleefully delights in the killing .
People from different walks of life condemned the killing of writer and blogger Avijit Roy and said that communal forces and extremists had made free-thinking activists their targets time and again but the government
BNP announces more 72-hour hartal.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance once again announced a 72-hour spell of nationwide general strike from 6:00am Sunday to 6:00am Wednesday. BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed....
Blogger Avijit hacked to death.
Avijit Roy, a free-thinking blogger, was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday night. His wife Rafida Ahmed was grievously injured in the attack that bore the hallmark
Tigers eye a ‘Miracle of Melbourne’
Angelo Mathews did something on his Melbourne Cricket Ground debut five years ago that hardly anyone can expect from a youngster. From 107-8, Mathews, then only 22, lifted Sri Lanka to 240 with an unbeaten 77
2 sustain burn injuries, 4 vehicles torched in lacklustre blockade, hartal.
The opposition sponsored nonstop countrywide transport blockade reinforced by the weeklong general strike passed its 51st day largely peacefully on Wednesday, barring some sporadic incidents of vandalism,
Manna on 10-day remand.
Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna was placed on a 10-day remand in police custody in a case filed by police for allegedly ‘trying to instigate revolt in the armed forces.’ Manna, in court,
Arrest warrant issued for Khaleda Zia, 2 others.
A special judges’ court in Dhaka on Wednesday issued arrest warrant for Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and two others in 2 graft cases. The makeshift court housed in an Alia Madrasah complex...........
Jabbar handed imprisonment until death
The International Crimes Tribunal -1 on Tuesday unanimously handed absconding former Jatiya Party MP engineer Abdul Jabbar imprisonment until natural death for genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Mushfiq hurt in training at the MCG
Former Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim was hurt in his right thumb while batting in the net during a training session at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday.
SC scraps Ghulam Azam’s appeal against conviction
The Appellate Division on Tuesday scraped the appeal filed by late Jamaat Amir Ghulam Azam against his 90 years of imprisonment for his crimes against humanity in 1971 during Bangladesh’s liberation war.
