CHAPAINAWABGANJ, June 20 (UNB): Nine people were sentenced to death on Thursday for murdering Jubo League leader Monirul Islam, who was also the treasurer of Sonamasjid Land Port C&F Agents Association.District and Sessions Judge Md Sawkat Ali also sentenced two others to life imprisonment and acquitted four others.Convicts who got...
Read moreInformation Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said Ziaur Rahman never claimed himself as proclaimer of independence contrary to what BNP claims, as Awami League leader MA Hannan was the first man to read out the proclamation of Independence on Bangabandhu's behalf, reports BSS."Zia never claimed that he declared the...
Read moreBOGURA, June 20 (UNB): A court here on Thursday sent former Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui to jail after rejecting his bail plea in a corruption case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).Bogura District and Senior Special Judge Naresh Chandra Sarkar passed the order when Latif Siddiqui appeared before...
Read moreMentioning that the upazila parishad elections were lopsided ones as opposition parties did not participate in the polls, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder on Wednesday said no one-sided election is good for democracy, reports UNB.He made the remarks in a statement after the fifth and final phase of the local government...
Read moreA Dhaka court on Thursday set July 2 for holding hearing of a case lodged over the murder of blogger Wasikur Rahman Babu, reports BSS. Dhaka 3rd Metropolitan Magistrate Robiul Alam passed the order as the defence continued cross-examining the last investigation officer Shah Moshiur Rahman and failed to wrap...
Read moreThe Appellate Division on Thursday stayed till July 1 the permanent bail granted by the High Court to former Awami League MP from Tangail-3 (Ghatail) Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a case filed over killing of two Jubo League leaders.Chamber judge Justice Md Nuruzzaman passed the order after hearing on...
Read moreDifferent organisations formed a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the city on Thursday, to press for budgetary allocation with special focus on the marginilised section of people — Focus Bangla
Read moreRuling Awami League (AL) will hold a meeting of its Local Government Election Nomination Board at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's official residence Ganabhaban on Wednesday (June 26), reports BSS.With AL President and its nomination board President Sheikh Hasina in the chair, the meeting will be held at 11am ," said...
Read moreRANGPUR, June 20 (BSS): Election Commissioner Begum Kabita Khanam said on Thursday Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) have earned confidence of voters for ensuring hundred percent transparent election as there is no scope of vote rigging using the system."In the coming elections, EVMs will be used in most of the polling...
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