The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), will be observed in the country today with due religious solemnity.

Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad (BHBCOP) yesterday urged the government to step up security for the Christian religious and community leaders who were threatened with death recently.

In a 15-hour crackdown in a militant den on the capital's Mirpur, detectives yesterday seized 16 improvised grenades, other ingredients, including power gel enough to make over 200 bombs and grenades, and a suicide vest, police said. Six youths, aged between 20 and 30, were said to be arrested during the raid at two apartments on the top floor of a six-storey building in Shah Ali area. Two of them are key operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and the four others are suspected militants, detectives said, but did not disclose their identities.

Chhatra League leader Saifuzzaman Sohag, who allegedly was picked up from his Rajshahi home 14 days ago, has been found in Chittagong.

A Pakistani female diplomat was withdrawn from Bangladesh yesterday, weeks after allegations of her involvement in terror financing surfaced in the judicial statement of an Islamist militant.

The BNP yesterday told foreign envoys that deployment of the army during the December 30 municipal polls could ease people's “fear and concern” over holding the elections in a free and fair manner.

Just two days before Christmas, Bishop Bejoy D'Cruze, a top spiritual leader of Christians in the country, received a death threat via text message on Tuesday night, a continuation of acts of terrorising the community leaders since early October.

Customs Intelligence officials seized 20.5kgs of gold worth around Tk 10 crore and detained six people, including two Malaysians, in two separate incidents at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday. Of the gold, 14.5kgs were seized from the possession of two female passengers who travelled from Chittagong to Dhaka on Biman Bangladesh Airlines' Kuwait-Chittagong-Dhaka flight, customs officials said.

Once their forefathers had ruled a fairly large territory; once they had a royal throne. But all those glories have faded into a distant past.

Successive governments have made many land-related laws over the years but those have failed to establish people's land rights, speakers said at a seminar yesterday.

“It is very difficult for the poor to get justice in our existing judicial system. Litigation cost is high, and a case that should be disposed of in two-three years takes 10-25 years.”

A leaked telephone conversation revealed that Proctor Tapan Kumar Saha of Jahangirnagar University tried to incite Bangladesh Chhatra League men to create unrest on campus last Friday.

A group of human rights organisations has appealed to the US government to allow or arrange emergency relocation of Bangladeshi

He went out of his Mugdapara house in the capital for work around 7:00am yesterday like any other day.

Freedom fighters, war crimes researchers, victim family members, war crimes prosecutors and different pro-liberation organisations

“There are controversies over how many were martyred in the Liberation War.”

The Election Commissioner has sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's intervention to stop the electoral code of conduct violation by ruling Awami League MPs and leaders and thus Election Commissioner Shah Nawaz has made it apparent that the EC is helpless and unable to control the situation.

Although the municipality polls are only eight days away, many returning officers are falling behind with the probes into alleged violations of electoral laws by the ruling Awami League men.

Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority has sent the following protest note to a news item titled “16,000 tea workers face uncertainty” published on 20 December, 2015. It alleged that while publishing this news item, no serious attention was given to the urgency and necessity of setting up Economic Zones to bring about positive change and development in the poorer and less developed areas of the country.

A FIFA ethics tribunal banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for eight years each on Monday, saying they had abused their positions over a 2 million Swiss francs payment made to Platini in 2011 for work as a consultant carried out between 1999 and 2002.