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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina posing for photograph at her official residence Ganobhaban

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina posing for photograph at her official residence Ganobhaban in the city on Wednesday after handing over cheques for expenses of medical treatment of ailing Rabindra Sangeet singer Mita Haque, noted photojournalist Jalal Uddin Haider and six others — PID photo

BNP announces protest programmes

The BNP will stage protests today (Thursday) and bring out a black-flag procession on Sunday to condemn the jailing of its acting chief Tarique Rahman in the 2004 grenade attack, reports bdnews24.com.A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Tarique to life in prison for plotting to assassinate Sheikh Hasina when she...

Grenade attack was designed to 'annihilate' AL, says judge

In his landmark verdict on the 2004 grenade attack, Judge Shahed Nuruddin said a conspiracy was underway to 'annihilate' the Awami League, the main opposition party at that time, reports bdnews24.com.Nuruddin linked the 2004 attack as part of a conspiracy that led to the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...

BCL demands capital punishment for Tarique

Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Wednesday demanded death penalty for Tarique Rahman who was awarded life-term imprisonment in the 2004 grenade attack case, reports UNB.BCL members came up with the demand after the verdict of the case which sentenced 19 people, including former state minister for...

Tight security everywhere during verdict

Strict security measures were taken in and around a special court in old Dhaka on Wednesday centering the verdicts in two cases filed over the grenade attack on an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004. Additional number of law enforcers remained deployed in different strategic points of the city,...

Tarique deserves death penalty as mastermind behind attack: Anisul

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Wednesday said BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman should have been awarded death penalty as he is the mastermind of August 21 grenade attack incident, report agencies. "We're happy with the verdicts, but the mastermind of the incident was Tarique Rahman...he should've been awarded death sentence,"...