A Dhaka court summarily dismissed a case against former interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus and 26 others over the vandalism and arson at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Dhanmondi 32 residence.
Police arrested the leaseholder of a central Kolkata hotel after a fire killed nine people, including five Bangladeshi nationals, authorities said.
A case has been filed against 27 people, including former interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus and lawmaker Hasnat Abdullah, over the alleged attack and demolition of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic Dhanmondi 32 residence.
A Dhaka court on Thursday set Sept. 27 for the Criminal Investigation Department to submit a further investigation report in the murder case of Inqilab Mancha spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.
Nine people, including seven Bangladesh nationals, were killed early Wednesday when a fire tore through a hotel in a five-story building on Mirza Ghalib Street near New Market in Kolkata, according to the provided report.
As many as 690 prisoners who escaped from jails across Bangladesh during the July uprising remain at large, inspector general of prisons Syed Muhammad Motahar Hussain said Tuesday.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) prosecutors have sought an Interpol red notice for former army chief Aziz Ahmed over a crimes against humanity case tied to the 2013 crackdown on a Hifazat-e Islam rally in Dhaka.
Bangladesh home minister Salahuddin Ahmed said the government would not act on a recent United Nations Security Council report warning that Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent was seeking to establish cells in Bangladesh, calling the assessment assumption-driven.
City detective police arrested an expelled Jatiyatabadi Swecchasebak Dal leader Monday in connection with a shooting targeting journalists in Khulna district, police said.
A crude bomb attack targeted a Bangladesh Nationalist Party office in Satkhira’s Kaliganj upazila late Friday, leaving one person injured, party officials said that the Business Standard.
