A Jubo Dal leader was shot dead inside a shop in the capital’s Pallabi area last evening.

Crude bombs go off at Kotalipara Upazila Parishad

The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) yesterday signed two agreements to outsource the operations of Laldia Container Terminal and the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal to two foreign companies, a move it says will bring world-class technology, efficiency, and global best practices to Bangladesh’s port system.

Directing the deputy commissioners to perform their duties with utmost honesty, neutrality, and dedication in the upcoming polls and referendum, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday said this election is not a conventional one; rather, it is an election to save the country.

From the early hours, the air inside the courtroom of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 felt thick with anticipation and grief.

The next legal recourse for ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina is to file an appeal against the tribunal’s verdict, but she must surrender before she can do that, legal experts have said.

Major political parties yesterday welcomed the International Crimes Tribunal’s decision to sentence ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death.

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday said sentencing of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her associates shows that no one is above the law, as the government intensified its push to bring her back from India.

One must distinguish between two separate issues: the evidence presented by the prosecution against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and the fairness of the process and procedure of the trial itself.

Law enforcers clashed with demonstrators yesterday in and around Dhanmondi-32 in the capital, as the latter attempted to demolish the remaining parts of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s house with diggers.

ICT also hands down capital punishment to ex-home boss Asaduzzaman; ex-IGP Mamun, who turned a state witness, given 5yrs

A mother and her son were stabbed to death in Cumilla’s Adarsha Sadar upazila yesterday.

The Russian Navy ship Gremyashchy yesterday arrived at Chattogram Port on a five-day goodwill visit to Bangladesh.

Jafar Howlader, 55, a former union parishad chairman and local Awami League leader, died at Patuakhali General Hospital yesterday after suddenly falling ill inside the Patuakhali District Jail, prison authorities said.

At least 21 leaders and activists of the Awami League, currently banned from political activities, were arrested in special drives across Narayanganj over the past 36 hours, as of 6:00am yesterday.

Chittagong University, one of the country’s leading institutions for higher education, marks its 60th founding anniversary today.

The United Nations said yesterday that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s sentencing for crimes against humanity marked “an important moment for victims”, but stressed that she should not have been given the death penalty.

A mother and her son were stabbed to death in Cumilla’s Adarsha Sadar upazila yesterday.

With the onset of winter, advance room bookings in resorts and cottages have increased in the Sajek tourist centre of Rangamati’s Baghaichari upazila.

At least three dengue patients died, while 1,007 others were hospitalised, in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.