In a written statement served to media, the New York Based human right watchdog Human Rights Watch on Monday urged Bangladesh government to suspend the death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami with immediate effect.   In the statement HRW said, “The death sentence against Motiur Rahman Nizami, the head of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islaami party, should be suspended…

According to the observation of Bangladeshi police and a bank official, Bangladesh's central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before $81 million cyber heist. Mohammad Shah Alam, the head of the criminal investigation department of the Bangladesh police who is…

The jail authority read out the full verdict of the Supreme Court that rejected the review petition of condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami before him this night at Dhaka Central Jail.   According to the jail sources, DIG (Prisons) Golam Haider, Senior Jail Super of the Dhaka Central Jail Jahangir Kabir, jailer Nesar Alam and deputy jailer Lavlu Miah entered the condemned cell of the jail,…

In bid to foil any untoward situation, security in and around the Dhaka Central Jail has been beefed up after the full verdict of the Supreme Court scraping the review petition of the condemned war criminal reached the jail on Monday evening. Quoting Deputy Commissioner (Lalbagh division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mafiz Uddin UNB said that they strengthened the security in and around the…

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Monday evening has said that the jail authorities can execute the death sentence of convicted war criminal Matiur Rahman Nizami any time if he does not seek presidential mercy.   He came up with this statement while speaking to media at his office.   Once the jail authority gets the copy of the verdict, they can start the process for executing according…

The Bagladesh foreign office today has strongly protested against a statement by the Pakistan foreign ministry on the Supreme Court verdict that rejected the review plea against death penalty for Jamaat leader Motiur Rahman Nizami. Foreign Ministry summoned Pakistan high commissioner to Bangladesh Shuja Alam on Monday afternoon to lodge the protest formally. Foreign secretary (bilateral) Mizanur Rahman…

Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami chief and 1971 war crimes convict Motiur Rahman Nizami has been shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from a suburban prison as his execution seemed imminent. “He (Nizami) has been brought here (Dhaka Jail) last night as part of the process to execute the Supreme Court verdict. We are prepared to carry out the process in Dhaka Central Jail,” a senior prison official…

Dhaka has asked Islamabad to refrain from interfering in Bangladesh's internal affairs like trial of crime against humanity in 1971 and stop misinterpreting 'Bangladesh, India and Pakistan Tripartite Agreement' signed in April 1974. "We never welcome anybody's interference in our internal affairs. But, they (Pakistan) are doing this despite giving them repeated reminders,"…

The wife of a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police was reportedly killed after falling from the rooftop of a building in the city’s Bhatara Thana area on Sunday.   The deceased is Jesmin Ahmed Mallick, 45, wife of DIG (Highway) Fakhrul Islam Mallick.   Police and hospital sources said Jesmin slipped off the rooftop of their six-storey residence building near Apollo Hospitals in…

Another teacher of Rajshahi University (RU) received death threat on Sunday afternoon, only after two weeks into the heinous murder of Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee. Mahbub Alam Pradip, an assistant professor at the RU Public Administration Department, said he received a call from +8177479 number over his mobile phone around 3pm when the caller threatened to kill him very soon, reports UNB. He said…

A Dhaka court on Saturday recorded the confessional statement of Mahfuzur Rashid Ferdous, a teacher of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST), in a case filed over sexual harassment of female students of the university. Metropolitan magistrate Kazi Kamrul Islam recorded the confessional statement of the teacher under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedures (CrPC) in the case.…

Around 10,000 additional police personnel have been deployed in a bid to avoid any kind of untoward incidents in the capital during Jamaat-e-Islami’s countrywide 24-hour hartal from 6:00 am on Sunday. Earlier on Thursday, Jamaat called for the 24-hour countrywide hartal for Sunday protesting the Supreme Court order upholding the death penalty of its ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami. Quoting Deputy…

A total of six people have been killed and over 100 peoples received injuries in the fourth phase of union parishad polls in separate districts in the country on Saturday.   A total of 703 Union Parishads (UPs) in 87 upazilas of the country’s 46 districts polling were held amid stray incidents of violence. Three of the deceased were killed in Rajshahi after the voting, while one each was…