Members of the Anti-Terrorism Unit arrested a convicted war criminal from the capital’s Khilgaon area on Tuesday night–eight days after he was sentenced in a case related to the 1971 war crimes.The 66-year-old convict Md Fakhruzzman is the son of late…
Intelligence agencies of the country are working to prevent the rise of militants and their operations, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today.“Police are making all-out efforts to arrest fugitive militants. We have managed to arrest many militants …
Israelis protesting a contentious government plan to overhaul the judicial system were stepping up their opposition on Wednesday, with large demonstrations and road closures expected in what protest leaders have dubbed a “national disruption day.”The d…
For the second day in a row, China on Wednesday dismissed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory.Responding to comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray, Foreign Ministry spo…
Medical services at all government and private hospitals in Khulna district have been hampered since this morning as doctors went on a 24-hour work abstention protesting the attack on a fellow physician.The doctors at outpatient departments of governme…
After seven Hindus were killed in early January in two back-to-back attacks in Dhangri village in disputed Kashmir, former Indian army soldier Satish Kumar described his sleepy mountainous village as an “abode of fear.”Days after the deadly violence in…
A Lalmonirhat court on Wednesday sentenced five members of the banned militant outfit ‘Ansarullah Bangla Team’ to life term imprisonment in an arms case.Lalmonirhat Special Tribunal-1 and District and Sessions Judge Court Judge Md Mizanur Rahman also f…
Most house owners in Dhaka have connected their sewage discharge pipes to the surface drains of the City Corporation instead of sewage management networks.This results in severe pollution to the lakes in and around the capital.Campaigns will be conduct…
Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS) President Maj. Gen. (Retd) Muniruzzaman has said the military takeover in Myanmar in February 2021 was a “key strategic issue” in the region with ramifications that were no longer confined to M…
The Biden administration on Tuesday pledged to support the independence of the five Central Asian nations, in a not-so-subtle warning to the former Soviet states that Russia’s value as a partner has been badly compromised by its year-old war against Uk…
The judge court in India’s Shillong has upheld a magistrate court’s verdict that acquitted BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed in a case filed against him over trespassing into India in 2015.“A Shillong magistrate court earlier acquitted me. Later the Indian g…
Commuters can now take the Metro Rail using Mirpur-10 station, as the government opened it for public this morning (March 01, 2023), nearly two months after the inauguration of the country’s much-awaited metro rail.According to the Metro Rail authority…
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