International Crimes Tribunal Number 2 has accepted formal charges against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 40 others over their alleged involvement in the attack on Hefazat-e-Islam supporters at Shapla Chattar.
Security personnel discovered an improvised explosive device hidden inside an umbrella under a pillar at Motijheel Metro Station, prompting police to cordon off the area and deploy a bomb disposal team, the home minister said.
Five people have been accused of embezzling money allocated for a research shed that was never built at the Madaripur Regional Pulse Research Center in Bangladesh, according to a report in Somoy TV.
Authorities arrested an Indian national at Dhaka’s international airport after finding 11.8 kilograms of cannabis concealed in his luggage, the Department of Narcotics Control said Saturday.
Bangladesh’s government has set a one-year goal to reduce a 4.5 million-case court backlog to between 2 million and 2.5 million through mediation, arbitration and out-of-court negotiations.
Bangladesh’s High Court has ordered authorities to locate fisherman Miraj Sheikh and produce him within 15 days after witnesses said Coast Guard officers detained him April 10 near the Sundarbans.
The Shapla Chattar killings refer to a deadly security operation carried out in Dhaka on the night of May 5 and the early hours of May 6, 2013, when police and other security forces dispersed thousands of supporters of Hefazat-e-Islam from the capital’s commercial district.
The International Crimes Tribunal’s investigation agency has submitted a draft report alleging that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the principal accused in the May 5, 2013, Shapla Chattar killings, with prosecutors saying they plan to file formal charges Tuesday to begin trial proceedings.
Rapid Action Battalion officers arrested a man accused of fatally stabbing his wife in front of their two children after she refused to give him money for drugs, officials said on Tuesday.
A shooting inside a mosque in southwestern Bangladesh left one businessman critically injured and another man wounded early Sunday, prompting an investigation into whether the attack was linked to a business dispute.
