A Dhaka court yesterday appointed administrators to look after some of the immovable properties of Benazir Ahmed and his family members.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Bangladeshis were found to be the highest number of irregular migrants reaching the shores of Italy in the first six months of this year.
Police in Manikganj are trying to arrest five men accused of raping a schoolgirl.
A 25-year-old tourist drowned and two others were injured while bathing in the Nikli haor in Kishoreganj yesterday morning.
Two patients with Covid-19 died and at least 620 new Covid-19 cases were recorded by the health directorate in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared the main protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early yesterday, fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in.
Newly elected President Abdul Hamid, left, takes oath administered by Jatiya Sangsad Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali, right, in Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban in the capital yesterday. Photo: BSS
A boy was killed and at least 55 people including seven cops were injured in clashes between pro-hartal activists and police and ruling party men across the country during the last day of the 36-hour hartal yesterday.
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War crimes accused Abdul Alim had urged people to help capture the freedom fighters and assist the Pakistani army at a meeting in Joypurhat during the Liberation War, a prosecution witness testified yesterday.
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The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday asked the prosecution to submit formal charges against war crimes suspect Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quashem Ali by May 9.
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A self-proclaimed leader of the LulzSec international hacker group has been arrested in Australia, police said yesterday, after charging him with attacking and defacing a government website.
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A Singaporean cartoonist has been arrested for alleged sedition over a satirical comic strip on his Facebook page that appeared to accuse the government of racism, police and his lawyer said yesterday.
Leslie Chew, 37, was released on bail following his arrest Friday, two days after a complaint was filed about his cartoon strip that lampooned the government for being "racist" toward minority Malays, his lawyer Choo Zheng Xi told AFP.
The strip was posted on Chew's "Demon-cratic Singapore" Facebook page on March 27.
"Police confirm that a 37-year-old man was arrested on 19 April 2013 for an offence under Section 4 (c) of the Sedition Act," police said in a statement.
Hefajat-e Islam has requested female journalists not to cover its April 27 rally in Jessore.
Leaders of the Islamist group made the call at a press conference in Jessore Press Club yesterday morning.
Earlier on April 6, Hefajat supporters assaulted ETV journalist Nadia Sharmin while she was covering its Motijheel rally in the capital.
The April 27 rally is to be held at Eidgah Maidan in Jessore city to press home the Islamist group's 13-point demand.
People from Jessore, Magura, Narail and Jhenidah will join the rally where Hefajat Secretary General Maulana Junaed Ahmad will be present, Hefajat leaders told the press conference.
Maulana Anwarul Karim Jessori, Maulana Abdul Mannan, Rafiqul Islam, Harun-or-Rashid were present at the conference.
Two foreign nationals arrested on suspicion of what police say was an al-Qaeda-backed plot to derail a Canadian passenger train rejected the charges as they made their first court appearances Tuesday.
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France promised that those behind Tuesday's devastating car bomb attack on its embassy in Libya -- which wounded a girl living nearby and two guards -- would pay for the attack.
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Darfur rebel leader Saleh Jerbo, charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court, has been killed in the western Sudanese region, his defence team said.
"The defence of Mr Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus hereby notifies the trial chamber, with great sadness... that Mr Jerbo died in North Darfur, Sudan on the afternoon of 19 April 2013, and was buried the same day," said an ICC document published late Tuesday.
Jerbo, along with fellow Darfur rebel leader Abdallah Banda, faced three war crimes charges for allegedly leading an attack on African Union peacekeepers in northern Darfur in September 2007, killing 12.
The two had been due to go on trial at The Hague-based ICC in May 2014.
