In this December 5 Focus Bangla photo, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka waves to party activists while being taken to a Dhaka court.
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
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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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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Abdur Razzak, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, is pictured briefing journalists at a city hotel today. Photo: TV grab.
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.
...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.
Hundreds came to pay their respects outside Mr Mandela's home in the suburb of Houghton
Mandela with Hasina and Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed at Bangabhaban in 1997 during the silver jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh's independence. Photo: File
A man was shot dead by extortionists at the capital's Mirpur this evening.
Qamruzzaman Sumon, 30, a caretaker of construction agency, was declared dead around 9:00pm when he was rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
A gang of three criminal riding a motorbike fired shots at Sumon, around 8:30pm, his father told The Daily Star at the hospital.
Police arrested Mohammad Sohag, who used to work for Sumon as a driver, said Kamal Hossain, assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Pallabi zone).
