Armed Police Battalion to get criminal investigation powers
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Similar shirts worn by Rangpur police officer, murder accused raise questions
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Case filed against Chattogram-15 MP’s PA over Tk 20 lakh extortion allegation
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Ex-UP member hacked to death in Bogura
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Businessman hacked to death near home in Sylhet
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Bangladeshi-origin restaurant worker 'shot' dead in New York
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It's all because of war trial, says intel

A certain group has been planning subversive and terror activities to “free war criminals now under trial”, said a recent intelligence report.
12 November 2015

Conspirators won’t be allowed to make country a terrorist state: PM

Renewing her allegation that Khaleda Zia wants to tarnish Bangladesh’s image by killing foreigners, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says people will not allow conspirators to make the country a terrorist state.
12 November 2015

36th BCS preliminary exam on Jan 8

The 36th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary examination will be held on January 8.
12 November 2015

Oishee to hang for killing parents

Dhaka court hands Oishee Rahman death penalty for killing her father – a Special Branch inspector – and mother at their house at the capital's Segunbagicha area in 2013. Her friend Roni is given two-year jail for sheltering her while another friend – Johnny – acquitted of the charges.
12 November 2015

HC's verdict on Fakhrul's bail plea Nov 16

The High Court yesterday fixed November 16 for delivering a judgment on three petitions filed by BNP acting secretary
11 November 2015

149 BNP-Jamaat men among 224 arrested in 5 districts

At least 224 people, including 149 BNP and Jamaat-Shibir men, were held in Gaibandha, Chapainawabganj, Satkhira, Jhenidah and Jessore districts yesterday and the day before.
11 November 2015

DoE fines 4 factories Tk 41 lakh

The Department of Environment (DoE) fined two dyeing and two washing factories in Dhaka, Narayanganj and Gazipur
11 November 2015

Writ challenging Maya’s JS membership sent to new bench

The acting chief justice has assigned a High Court bench for final hearing of a writ petition that challenged Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya's holding offices of minister and lawmaker after the Supreme Court had scrapped his acquittal in a corruption case.
11 November 2015

Pabna's changed farming traditions

In Pabna's Ishwardi, winter, by tradition, means beans. Every year in Muladuli village, hundreds of bighas of land are dedicated to bean
10 November 2015

Shawkat gets bail in 3 more cases

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to BNP chairperson's adviser Shawkat Mahmud for six months in
10 November 2015

3 remanded

A Sylhet court yesterday placed three accused in blogger Ananta Bijoy Das killing case on seven-day remand each.
10 November 2015

HC gets death references

The death references in two sensational cases filed for killing 13-year-old boys Sheikh Md Samiul Alam Rajon and
10 November 2015

Occupiers get 10 days to remove illegal Karwan Bazar structures

Dhaka North City Corporation yesterday gave occupiers a 10-day ultimatum to remove all of their illegal
10 November 2015

Verdict on Nov 25

The judgment in the case filed over violating a class-X girl of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, Bashundhara branch in 2011, will be delivered on November 25.
10 November 2015

TIB hails JS talk on ‘Parliament Watch’

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) considers the Jatiya Sangsad’s discussion on its report ‘Parliament Watch’ as positive and recognition of its works.
10 November 2015

Worker killed, 4 hurt in Munshiganj boiler explosion

A worker is killed and four are injured in a boiler explosion in a current net-manufacturing factory in Munshiganj.
10 November 2015

Shawkat bailed, but not released

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to BNP chairperson's adviser Shawkat Mahmud for six months in three arson cases filed on January 10, 30 and February 3 on charge of torching vehicles during BNP-led alliance's anti-government agitation.
9 November 2015

Gazipur mayor shown arrested again

Suspended Gazipur city mayor MA Mannan was shown arrested in another violence case yesterday.
9 November 2015

Witness narrates father's killing by 2

A sixth prosecution witness in a war crimes case yesterday told International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he saw two of the five accused “Razakars” tie his father to a seedbed east of their house in Kishoreganj's Ayla village and that one shot him dead on November 12,
9 November 2015

Death penalty for 2 killers of Rakib

Two persons have been handed down the death penalty for killing 13-year-old Rakib by pumping air into his rectum in Khulna, an incident that sparked outrage all over the country three months ago.
8 November 2015