Former president Abdul Hamid's home in Kishoreganj attacked, vandalised

Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- A group of BNP activists have allegedly attacked and vandalised the home of former president Md Abdul Hamid during a celebratory procession in Kishoreganj's Mithamoin Upazila. The d... Read More

National Cyber Security Agency asks media to avoid airing convict's statements

Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- The National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) has asked media outlets not to air statements of convicted individuals in the interest of national security and warned that "legal" action c... Read More

Amnesty International describes Hasina's trial as 'neither fair nor just'

Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- The UK-based rights group, Amnesty International (AI), has described the trial of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal as "neither fair no... Read More

BNP calls Hasina verdict 'justice served for victims of state violence'

Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has welcomed the death sentence given to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the International Crimes Tribunal case, saying it "established ... Read More

Crude bomb sounds heard in New Market, Dhanmondi after Hasina's verdict

Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- Police have reported hearing explosions in Dhaka's New Market and Dhanmondi. These incidents happened amid a spate of arson attacks and crude bomb explosions surrounding the verdict... Read More

After Hasina's death sentence, where does the Awami League go from here?

Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- Bangladesh's political theatre has entered a new and perilous act. The International Crimes Tribunal that Sheikh Hasina herself created to try the crimes against humanity of 1971 ha... Read More

Sheikh Hasina: From the peak of power to death-row fugitive, without precedent

Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- No other political leader in Bangladesh has stayed in power for as long. And no other head of state or government in Bangladesh has ever had the shadow of a death sentence hanging ov... Read More

Army chief says Pakistan will 'retaliate to any provocation as it did in May clash with India'

Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir has said the country will respond decisively to any provocation, "in the same way as it did in May" during the brief, yet intense, confli... Read More

Abul Hossain's murder merits death sentences, but doesn't qualify him for the official martyrs' list

Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan have received capital punishment from the International Crimes Tribunal on charges of crimes against hu... Read More

Families of July Uprising victims want Hasina brought back, hanged for crimes against humanity

Dhaka, Nov. 17 -- Families of July Uprising victims say they want deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina brought back from India so that a death sentence, if handed down, can be carried out. Even "a th... Read More

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