Jamaat goes berserk
The Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday struck terror in the capital and elsewhere, and called a daylong countrywide hartal for today, hours after International Crimes Tribunal-1 set today for a delivery of the...
View Article7 journos among 15 hurt in Shibir-cop clash
At least 15 people including seven photojournalists and television cameramen were injured when activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir clashed with law enforcers at Jatrabari during Jamaat-enforced daylong...
View Article2 Shibir pickets beaten dead in Kushtia
Locals beat dead two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir while they were trying to block Kushtia-Chuadanga road in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia just an hour before the beginning of Jamaat-e-Islami-called...
View Article90-yr for Ghulam Azam
Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam has been handed 90-year jail for his role in the murder and genocide of the independence-seeking people of the land who were fighting occupation Pakistani army...
View ArticleCharges Ghulam Azam facing
Ghulam Azam is facing five charges including involvement in murder and torture of unarmed people, conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity in genocide, and crimes against humanity during the...
View ArticleThousands protest Zimmerman verdict across US
Thousands of demonstrators demanding “Justice for Trayvon” marched in major cities across the United States on Sunday to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed black...
View Article18 killed in stampede at boxing match in Indonesia
At least 18 people were killed in a stadium stampede after spectators rioted to protest a local boxer’s loss in a championship match in eastern Indonesia, police said Monday. The victims, mostly women,...
View ArticleClash, arson, blasts mark district-level hartal
Clash, arson, blasts and vandalism are the key features the district dwellers experienced during the early hours of Jamaat-e-Islami-enforced daylong hartal (shutdown) on Monday. More than 14 people...
View ArticleObama calls for calm after Zimmerman acquittal
President Barack Obama called for calm on Sunday after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, as thousands of civil rights demonstrators...
View ArticleStocks return to the green
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse gained on Monday after witnessing downtrend for the last two days. DGEN, the general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose 132 points...
View ArticleDozens of Greenpeace activists enter French EDF nuclear plant
Dozens of Greenpeace activists entered an EDF nuclear power plant in Tricastin, southern France on Monday, demanding the government shut it down, the environmental campaign group said. EDF could not...
View Article2 outlaws killed in Pabna mob beating
Two activists of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) Janajudhha faction were beaten to death by a mob in Santhia upazila of Pabna early Monday. One of the victims was identified as Biplob Hossain, 28,...
View ArticleGreenwald: Snowden docs contain NSA ‘blueprint’
Edward Snowden has very sensitive “blueprints” detailing how the National Security Agency operates that would allow someone who read them to evade or even duplicate NSA surveillance, a journalist close...
View ArticleJamaat-Shibir men kill AL leader in Satkhira
The activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, beat dead a local leader of ruling Awami League (AL) in Debhata upazila of Satkhira during the hartal (shutdown) hours on...
View ArticleShahbagh erupts in protest
Minutes after a Dhaka tribunal handed down 90-year jail to former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam on Monday, Gonojagoron Mancha rejected the verdict and started demonstration taking position at...
View ArticleDefence to challenge verdict
Ghulam Azam’s counsels expressed dissatisfaction over the 90-year jail awarded to the Jamaat leader for war crimes. Terming the judgement “not appropriate”, Saifur Rahman, one of Azam’s lawyers, said:...
View ArticleAL happy over trial
Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif has expressed satisfaction over the trial of former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam. Ghulam Azam was handed 90-year jail on Monday for his...
View ArticleAggrieved, not surprised, says Azmi
Terming the 90-year jail term for Ghulam Azam “unjust”, his son Abdullahil Aman Azmi still maintains that the charges are “false, fabricated and baseless”. “The judgement has made us aggrieved. But we...
View ArticleTrade unionism set free
The parliament Monday passed an amended labour law that allows full freedom for trade unionism in the industries. Labour and Employment Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju placed the Labour Law (amendment...
View ArticleShafique, Qamrul express satisfaction
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed and State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam have expressed satisfaction over Ghulam Azam’s conviction. “The verdict has been passed based on international standards and with...
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