He was actively involved in an act of genocide and crimes against humanity which left 36 people dead in Pirojpur in 1971. He was 39 and a Muslim League leader then.

More than 20 hours after “plainclothes men had picked up” Mahmudur Rahman Manna early yesterday, officials said he was arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion and handed over to the Detective Branch of police.

A tribunal in Dhaka sentences former Jatiya Party lawmaker Abdul Jabbar to jail until death on four charges of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971

Bangladesh Supreme Court asks both state and defence counsels to submit in two weeks the concise statements on an appeal filed by convicted war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami against his death penalty

Bangladesh Supreme Court dismisses two appeals filed by convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam and the government against his verdict and seeking a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami respectively

A tribunal in Dhaka to deliver its verdict tomorrow in the case against fugitive accused Abdul Jabbar for his alleged crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman has 15 days to file a review petition with the Supreme Court to know the final say on its verdict that has upheld his death penalty for war crimes.

War criminal Abdus Subhan had borne the identity of an Islamist party during the Liberation War.

The Supreme Court is set to release the full verdict upholding the death penalty for war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman that has already been signed by the four apex court judges

A drone strike in Afghanistan has killed a militant commander who recently swore allegiance to Islamic State (IS), officials say.

Five BCL men of Jahangirnagar University were handed down death penalty and six others life term yesterday for the killing of a rival faction activist, Zubair Ahmed.

Five expelled activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Jahangirnagar University unit were sentenced to death and six others to life term imprisonment today for killing Zubair Ahmed, a student of the university, in 2012.

A Dhaka court today placed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Mosaddak Ali Falu on a five-day remand in a case filed for torching a bus in Khilgaon area of Dhaka on January 30.

Photograph: A mother and her children at West Bengal refugee camp

NEW DELHI, India Civil war was reported in East Pakistan yesterday and thousands of villagers fought West Pakistani troops in four major cities, even using spears and clubs in the battle , the Press Trust of India news agency (PTI) reported.

Mujib freed from house arrest

Paratroops Near Heart of Dacca

Indians shell Pakistan capital

Surrender bid thwarted

Indian papratroops advance on Dacca