The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today issued death warrant against convicted war criminal Mir Quasem Ali, paving the way for executing the Al Badr commander, notoriously known as Bengali Khan in 1971.   "After getting the full text of the Appellate Division verdict, the three judges signed on the death warrant," news agency BSS quoted an official of the tribunal.   Earlier…

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is likely to provide the full report of the DNA test, conducted on the body of slain Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu, to the medical board formed for her 2nd autopsy.   The DNA report reached the CID’s Comilla office from its Dhaka forensic department on Monday night, UNB quoted sources at the local CID office as saying.   Sub-inspector…

American business magazine Forbes on Monday ranked Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the 36th most powerful woman in the world, 23 places up from the last year. Hasina was ranked 59th last year.   The magazine published its 2016 ranking on The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women on Monday.   German Chancellor Angela Merkel retained the top spot while US presidential candidate…

Awami League won 2,625 chairman posts while its archrival BNP won 373 and independent candidates captured 883 in the sixth-phase Union Parishad (UP) election completed Saturday beginning in March last.   Among the winners, 207 chairman candidates –-204 AL and 3 independent contestants-- were elected uncontested finding no rival against their respective posts in the 9th countrywide UP election.…

A meeting of National Moon Sighting Committee will be held at the Islamic Foundation Baitul Mukkaram conference room at 7.30 pm tomorrow (Monday).   The meeting will review the news of moon sighting for the holy month of Ramadan of 1437 Hijri and take decision in this regard, BSS reports.   Religious Affairs Minister and Chairman of the committee Principal Matiur Rahman will preside over…

CNG refilling stations across the country will remain closed for seven hours from 3pm to 10 pm every day during Ramadan until July 1.   The decision was taken at a meeting held at Power Division with State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid in the chair on Sunday, UNB reports quoting sources close to the meeting.   However, the decision was not formally announced.   CNG refilling…

A Comilla court on Sunday ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to provide the full report of the DNA test, conducted on the body of slain college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu, to the medical board formed for her 2nd autopsy.   Additional Senior Judicial Magistrate of Comilla Joynab Begum passed the order asking the DNA analyst Special Superintendent of Police Nasima Begum to provide…

The Supreme Court on Sunday upheld a bail granted to Barrister Shakila Farzana by the High Court in a case over terror financing. A three-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice SK Sinha, passed the order after a hearing petition filed by the state, said Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, lawyer for Barrister Shakila. On February 22, the HC granted bail to Barrister Shakila in the terror…

Police Super (SP) Babul Akter’s wife was shot dead by unidentified miscreants  in Chittagong this morning.   The deceased was identified as Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, 33, wife of Babul Akhter.   Mohiuddin Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Panchlaish Police Station, said a gang of miscreants numbering three riding a motorcycle hit Mahmuda by the bike as she had been there to get her…

An incediary was broke out in a garments factory at Chandara in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur district on Saturday noon.   Station officer of Kaliakoir Fire Service Apurba Bal said the fire broke out at the factory of Nur Group in the area around 12 noon.   On information, four fire-fighting units rushed in and brought the blaze under control.   However, the reason behind the fire could…

At least ten people were killed and 25 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Bogra highway at Dhankundi in Sherpur upazila of Bogra district on Friday. Five of the deceased were identified as Parvez Alam, 37, son of Abdul Aziz of Dinajpur district; Bhola Mia, 42, son of Abdul Malek of Tangail district; Shamim, 40, bus driver and son of Hafiz Uddin; Nazmul Sarkar,…

Mobile-phone operators in the country have already imposed a hiked tariff a day after the new FY 2016-17 budget proposed an increase in the supplementary duty on SIM-card-related services.   Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, in his budget presented in Parliament on Thursday, suggested an increase from the present 3 percent to 5 percent.   The operators began charging the new tariff…

A total of Tk 18,727.36 crore has been allocated for eight mega projects for the next fiscal year 2016-17. While unveiling national budget in parliament on Thursday, Finance Minister AMA Muhith set out the allocation in a budget document titled: 'Kathamo Rupantore Brihot Prokolpo: Probiddhi Shonchare Nuton Matra'. Of the projects, Padma Multi-Purpose Bridge has got Tk 6026.48 crore while Padma…