A Sylhet court yesterday deferred, for the ninth time, the recording of testimonies of witnesses in the former finance

It was at a duck shooting trip in Larkana, the hometown of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who lost in the 1970 election to Bangabandhu, that the seed of the genocide in Bangladesh was sowed. Bhutto and President of Pakistan Yahya Khan met there to discuss how not to hand over power to Mujib. The Larkana Conspiracy, as it is termed, was basically the root of the incidents that followed later including the nine-month genocide and destruction and the bloody War of Independence.

Prosecutors yesterday pressed six specific charges against two alleged Razakars for their alleged involvement in crimes committed in Kishoreganj during the Liberation War in 1971.

The government sacks Dinajpur Sadar municipality mayor Jahangir Alam on charges of irregularities.

Chief Justice SK Sinha stresses the need for introducing Bangla, the mother tongue of the country, in judicial proceedings of the Supreme Court to meet up the expectations of people.

State Minister for ICT Division Junaid Ahmed Palak today said that the ban imposed on Facebook on security grounds would be lifted very soon for ensuring access to those who use the social networking site.

The war crimes case against Obaidul Haque Taher and Ataur Rahman Nani, two alleged Razakars from Netrakona, is set to enter the final stage as International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday fixed January 4 to begin hearing closing arguments.

The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court verdict that had sentenced two convicts to death for killing Mofakkharul Ahmed Sohel, a doctor of Bangladesh Medical College Hospital, in the capital's Dhanmondi in 2008.

Celebrated cultural personality Syed Hasan Imam yesterday urged the government to file a case with International

The Pakistanis had a secret plan -- to fake a political dialogue with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman while its military prepared to mow down the Bangalis, to terrorise them, to exterminate the Hindus who they viewed as Indian agents, to let loose a genocide campaign and teach the "treacherous" Bangalis a lesson.

A primary schoolteacher was stabbed to death by unidentified criminals at Manash village in Barhatta upazila

Six Bangladeshis returned home after serving two years in an Indian jail through Burimari immigration check post in

On this day in 1971, Thakurgaon was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces.

The High Court declares illegal the construction of secondary transfer station (STS), a structure for waste management, at Pantha Kunja park in capital’s Karwan Bazar area.

The government today appointed five acting secretaries to different ministries and divisions to fill the vacant positions.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy, a Washington-based prestigious magazine of global politics, economics and ideas.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members recover the body of a young man on no-man’s land along with Sylhet border.

Rafida Ahmed Banya, the widow of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy, urges the international community to come forward to help save the voices of Bangladeshi journalists, writers, bloggers, and publishers and help them maintain a healthy secular society.

A four-year-old boy dies after a flag stand collapsed on him at Khagrachhari General Hospital this morning.

Two alleged criminals are killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chapainawabganj and Jessore.