Jamaat-e-Islami calls a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) for tomorrow protesting Supreme Court’s rejection of party secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed’s plea to review its ruling upholding his death penalty for war crimes.

War crimes convict Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed followed in his father Maulana Abdul Ali’s footsteps all along.

The government has ordered blocking popular social networking platform Facebook and online messaging and calling services WhatsApp and Viber this morning.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha’s village home in Moulvibazar is put under beefed up security since this morning ahead of two war trial verdicts.

Supreme Court maintains its previous ruling upholding death penalties for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami's Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 War of Independence.

An Italian doctor is injured in an gun attack by unknown miscreants in Dinajpur town. He receives injuries in his head but is out of danger.

Bangladesh is one of the safest countries in the world, according to a poll carried out by Gallup the Washington DC-based opinion pollster.

The mass probe body formed over alleged question leak of medical and dental admission tests reports to have found proof of leak.

High Court issues a rule asking why BASIC Bank’s former chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu will not be implicated in cases filed over loan scam worth Tk 154 crore.

Bangladesh women defeat Zimbabwe by 35 runs at Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium, Cox’s Bazar today.

In a bid to curb politically and sexually embarrassing posts, Bangladesh government is trying to sign a deal with Facebook authorities soon.

A Dhaka court sentences four persons to death for killing a class nine student, Zakia Akter Chanpa, after raping her in Faridpur in December, 2012.

The Supreme Court has set a fresh date, tomorrow, for the review hearing on war criminal and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s death penalty.

Four policemen are injured as a CNG-run three-wheeler veer off road in Mymensingh.

A 61-year-old “air bomb” weighing around 227 kg is discovered at the terminal of Cox’s Bazar airport.

A Chittagong court today handed down death penalty to four persons for abducting and killing a primary school boy in 2012.

India assures of sharing information on militancy with Bangladesh, says Senior Secretary to the Home Ministry Mozammel Haque Khan. He was talking to reporters following a secretary-level meeting between Bangladesh and its neighbouring India.

Supreme Court fixes tomorrow for passing an order on a petition filed by condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed seeking review of death penalty.

An on-duty traffic constable is crushed under the wheels of a train in Banani area of Dhaka.

The Asian champions and four time World cup playing Australian Football team arrives in Dhaka in their first-ever visit to Bangladesh to play the FIFA World Cup/Asia Cup Qualifiers against Bangladesh.