In this December 5 Focus Bangla photo, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka waves to party activists while being taken to a Dhaka court.
“Reduce my pain,” human haulier driver Mozammel screamed to his doctors at the intensive care unit of DMCH yesterday. He died around 12:30am today. Opposition activists hurled a petrol bomb at...
The Criminal Investigation Department today pressed charges against 13 members of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan for bomb blasts on a CPB rally at Paltan in the capital 12 years back.
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Picketers set a CNG on fire in Wari area in the capital on the second day of the opposition called countrywide blockade. Photo: Focus Bangla
Protesters are seen marching on Bangkok's streets for a fourth day, in the biggest demonstrations for over three years. Photo: Reuters
From right, Dr Jamilur Reza Choudhury, Badiul Alam Majumder, Dr Shahdeen Malik, Sultana Kamal, Dr Akbar Ali Khan, and Dr Kamal Hossain meet President Abdul Hamid, far left, at the...
Without the participation of all political parties, the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) will not join the forthcoming 10th parliamentary election scheduled for January 5.
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A woman was critically injured as a cocktail hits her on the head in Shantipur in the capital today around 3:30pm in the afternoon.
Identified as Anowara Begum, 42, a cocktail thrown from a rally landed squarely on her head, exploding her skull.
Anowara was walking past the rally, on her way home from work.
She is a cook at the Malibagh branch of National Bank, and a resident of Khilgaon.
The victim was brought into Dhaka Medical College Hospital by her nephew Ronny.
DMCH sources termed her state as critical.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked seven of her 11 advisers to resign.
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ASM Hannan Shah. Star file photo
Law enforcers detained BNP standing committee member Brig (retd) ASM Hannan Shah from Baridhara in the capital this evening, minutes after the opposition alliance rejected polls schedule.
Abu Yousuf, assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), told The Daily Star that the detectives picked up the BNP leader at Badda around 9:00pm.
He however did not give any reason behind the arrest.
Son of a BNP lawmaker sustained a bullet injury in a clash with ruling Awami League activists in Sandwip upazila of Chittagong today.
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