22nd Anniversary 2013 - Infrastructure, Food Security, Climate Change and Extremism
Khoka denied bail, sent to jail again
In this December 5 Focus Bangla photo, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka waves to party activists while being taken to a Dhaka court.
Additional forces deployed in Ctg
Jamaat-Shibir activists torch a microbus at Andarkillah area in Chittagong city today protesting the Supreme Court rejection of the Jamaat leader Quader Mollah's petition to review death sentence. By rejecting the petition the SC has cleared the way for executing war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah. Photo: Focus Bangla
Another Shahbagh arson victim dies
This November 28 photo shows burn victims sharing the seven beds at the burn unit emergency of DMCH after pickets burnt the people inside a bus near Shishu Park.
Justice SK Sinha's Moulvibazar residence set on fire
Miscreants set fire to residence of Supreme Court Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha at Ranirbazar village in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar around 5:30am Wednesday. Photo: STAR
Burn victims in despair
As the victims of recent political violence are gradually improving at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, the uncertainty ahead is gripping them tight, plunging them in utter despair.
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Resigned or not?
Confusion reigned yesterday over the resignation of Jatiya Party ministers from the “polls-time cabinet” as there were different versions from the party and the government on the issue.
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Jamaat wants to join JS polls
Abdur Razzak, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, is pictured briefing journalists at a city hotel today. Photo: TV grab.
BCL man killed in Sunamganj clash
A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader was killed in a clash between the activists of BCL and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj today.
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Nanak, Azam cleared of 2004 arson charges
A Dhaka court today cleared Awami League lawmakers Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Mirza Azam and 16 others of charges of an arson attack that killed 11 people in 2004.
Metropolitan Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury passed the order after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted the probe report stating that charges brought against the defendants were found to be false.
A double-decker bus was torched near Sheraton Hotel on 4 June 2004 during an AL-called 24-hour hartal killing 11 people while the party was in opposition.
A case was filed on the next day with Ramna Police Station where it was mentioned the attack was carried out in a well-organised plan to kill people and thus create panic.
Crowds celebrate Mandela's life
Hundreds came to pay their respects outside Mr Mandela's home in the suburb of Houghton