MILKY MURDER: Little progress in two years of investigation
Investigation into the murder of Juba League leader Riazul Haque Khan Milky murder is progressing at sluggish pace as the Criminal Investigation Department, charged with further investigation, failed to make any noteworthy development although two years have elapsed since the murder.
BNP unhappy over SQC verdict
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said the party was ‘disappointed, surprised and saddened’ at the Supreme Court Appellate division holding up the International War Crimes Tribunal’s verdict of death sentence against party standing committee member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury for war crimes.
SC upholds SQC’s death sentence
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in war crimes in Chittagong region during the Liberation War of 1971.
Southeast people continue to suffer
People of different waterlogged areas of the south-eastern part of the country continued to suffer as their homesteads, crops and roads were still under water on Tuesday while water began to recede from some places and the situation remained unchanged at some other places.
SQC’S APPEAL AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE: SC verdict today
The Appellate Division will deliver today its verdict in the appeal of war crimes death row inmate Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
DCs for building ring road to tighten border security
Several deputy commissioners at their annual conference in Dhaka proposed setting up ‘ring road’ along the border with India to strengthen security and check smuggling as a vast area along the frontiers in Chittagong Hill Tracts and the country’s north remained unprotected.
MURDER CASES AGAINST KHALEDA: Court asks for police report by Oct 13
A metropolitan magistrate in Dhaka on Monday asked the police to submit report on a petition filed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and three other leaders over the killing of at least 42 people during non-stop blockade and general strikes by October 13.
Most political parties yet to submit audit reports to EC
Most of the political parties including Awami League, BNP and Jatiya Party are yet to submit their audit reports for 2014 to the Election Commission when the last date for submitting the reports is July 31.
UGC to review private universities August 13
The University Grants Commission would hold a meeting on August 13 with boards of trustee and vice-chancellors of private universities for proper implementation of the Private University Act 2010 and an expeditious shifting of the private universities to their own campuses.
5 killed in landslide as rain wreaks havoc
At least five people were killed in landslides in Cox’s Bazar and at least 50 new villages went under water on Monday as the people of most of the areas in south-eastern region of the country continued to suffer because of heavy monsoons.
