Jamaat-e-Islam

Jamaat forms all-Hindu union committee in Rangpur

In a first, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam has formed an all-Hindu committee in a Rangpur union yesterday.

Jamaat-Shibir men clash with cops in Rajshahi

Law enforcers open fire on activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir during a clash in Rajshahi.

Jamaat calls hartal for Sunday protesting death penalty to Nizami

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour countrywide hartal (shutdown) for Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld death penalty awarded to the party’s chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his 1971 war crimes.

Verdict on Nizami's review plea May 5

SC will deliver its verdict on May 5 on war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami’s petition seeking review of his death penalty.

Jamaat withdraws hartal after Islam retained as state religion

Jamaat-e-Islami withdraws countrywide hartal after the High Court rejects a writ that challenged legality of Islam as state religion of Bangladesh.

History will judge this verdict: Defence

War criminal Mir Quasem Ali’s lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain says the history will judge this verdict that upheld the death penalty of the Jamaat-e-Islami leader.

Jamaat men clash with cops in Jatrabari, 3 held

Police detain three persons during a clash with activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir at Jatrabari in Dhaka.

The Boat and the BNP-Jamaat

The election symbol of the Awami League is a boat; interestingly, AL now resembles a boat as big as Noah's Ark as it accommodates anybody from any party, irrespective of political colour and ideology.

War crimes: Probe report on Shakhawat, 11 others submitted

Probe report on ex-lawmaker Shakhawat Hossain and 11 others’ alleged war crimes was handed to the prosecution.

April 19, 2015
April 19, 2015

Jamaat man killed in Pabna

Unidentified gunmen today hacked and shot a Jamaat-e-Islami activist to death this evening.

April 13, 2015
April 13, 2015

Trucker burnt in Comilla petrol bomb attack

A trucker burnt when miscreants hurl a petrol bomb at his vehicle on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Daudkandi upazila of Comilla.

April 12, 2015
April 12, 2015

Al Badr organiser Kamaruzzaman executed

On a July morning in 1971, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman marched into Sohagpur, a remote hamlet, and unleashed cold-blooded savagery.

April 6, 2015
April 6, 2015

Jamaat calls 48hr hartal from tomorrow

Jamaat calls 48-hr nationwide hartal from 6:00am tomorrow to protest SC rejection of Kamaruzzaman’ plea seeking review of his death penalty.

April 6, 2015
April 6, 2015

SC upholds Kamaruzzaman’s death penalty

Supreme Court upholds its verdict on Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman rejecting his plea for reviewing death penalty for 1971 war crimes.

March 5, 2015
March 5, 2015

Jamaat lawyer Tajul Islam ‘detained’

Tajul Islam, a top member of the defence team of war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, has been allegedly picked up by law enforcers from his chamber in Dhaka this evening.

February 25, 2015
February 25, 2015

Hartals, blockade eat up Tk 1.20 lakh crore: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the country has incurred a loss of over Tk 1.20 lakh crore in the hartals and nonstop blockade since January 6.

February 21, 2015
February 21, 2015

3 Shibir leaders held for ‘plotting Ctg oil depots’

Chittagong police arrests three leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, on charge of conspiracy to blow up the depots of state-run oil companies -- Padma, Meghna and Jamuna.

February 18, 2015
February 18, 2015

Full SC verdict of Kamaruzzaman likely today

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

February 12, 2015
February 12, 2015

Return campuses to KNOWLEDGE SEEKERS

AMIDST the continuing deadly violence in the country unleashed by BNP-Jamaat to unseat the present government, a significant news seems to have lost its importance.