It also ordered the freezing of 53 bank accounts of his family members
"We are prepared as a nation to support your government on a variety of issues," Jacobson told Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus during a meeting at the state guest house Jamuna.
Bangladesh Railways (BR) issued a letter today instructing its concerned departments to allocate manpower, locomotives, and coaches for the operation of these trains.
He made these remarks while attending the inauguration of the "Voter List Update Program-2025" at the Upazila Parishad Auditorium in Savar Upazila, Dhaka.
Tajul Islam cited articles 47(3) and 47(ka), stating war crimes accused lack fundamental rights and can't file writ petitions.
Two expatriates were robbed on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Keodala of Narayanganj's Bandar upazila by individuals wearing "Rab jackets"
Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, adviser to the home affairs ministry, disclosed it today after a law and order advisory committee meeting at the secretariat.
Judge Anirban ruled that the case did not meet the criteria for the 'rarest of the rare' category, leading to a life sentence rather than the death penalty
"There will be no significant budgetary issues in implementing these changes"
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the cases with the ACC's integrated district office in Dhaka-1
Mostofa was arrested in Monsurabad Housing Society in Mohammadpur
However, a third ship remains under the control of the Arakan Army
A Myanmar junta air strike killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group said yesterday.
An Indian court on Saturday found a 33-year-old man guilty for the rape and murder of a doctor, a crime that sparked nationwide protests and hospital strikes last year.
The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment on January 20
Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday held phone talks with US president-elect Donald Trump, Chinese state media reported.
Indian security forces shot dead at least 12 Maoist rebels in central India, police said, as New Delhi steps up efforts to quell the long-running insurgency.
India yesterday reiterated that fencing is one of the necessary measures to ensure a crime-free border with Bangladesh.
A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan to 14 years’ imprisonment in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation.
A Pakistan court convicted former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in a graft case on Friday, sentencing Khan to 14 years in prison
The Republican vowed to unleash a blitz of executive orders undoing Joe Biden's legacy upon his return to the White House, and to launch immediate deportations of undocumented migrants
He deliberately drove a small SUV through crowds of people exercising outside a sports complex
Yoon was arrested in a dawn raid last week
Across China, a growing number of people are turning to AI to combat social isolation
Here is a look at his sensational but frequently vague promises for a second term
More than 1,000 other Palestinians taken into Israeli custody since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack
As residents fled for their lives, the army deployed some 5,000 troops to the cocaine-growing Catatumbo region at the center of a fast-escalating territorial war
Trump promised to issue an executive order delaying the ban to allow time to "make a deal."
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Students of Jagannath University (JnU), who went on a hunger strike to press home their three-point demand, called off their protest yesterday evening, 35 hours after authorities assured them of meeting two of their demands.
The interim government has currently set the age limit at 32 years
The HC also scrapped the trial court verdict that in 2007 convicted Mamun and sentenced him to 10 years in prison in the case
Among the successful candidates, 33 are female and 20 are male
Menon, Inu, former IGP Mamun also remanded; Dipu Moni, Palak, Haji Selim shown arrested in various murder cases
The letter claims that Putul's credentials were fabricated and purely formal
Students from Dhaka Medical College and Sir Salimullah Medical College gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar today in protest
The cause of the explosion is yet to be known
In the reconstituted committee, Foreign Affairs Advisor Md Touhid Hossain has been appointed as the convener
Human traffickers took the couple to Gujrat about five and a half years ago promising them work in exchange of cash
Tanzil Ahmed, former assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, and Akram Hossain, former constable, were produced before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) this morning
