All the three Supreme Court (SC) lawyers, who were arrested for allegedly financing Shaheed Hamza Brigade, an Islamist organisation, gave ‘confessional’ statements before Banskhali court of Chittagong yesterday. Banskhali senior judicial magistrate Sazzad Hossain recorded the statement of…

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday said that the government would file a review petition with the Supreme Court seeking death sentence for war crimes…

Malaysian police have found 24 human skeletons - all believed to be victims of human trafficking - in newly discovered graves along the Thai border in the northern Malaysian state of Perlis, report agencies. "Following on from the operation in which we found ... bodies of illegal immigrants, 24…

Amid concern and criticisms over section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu yesterday said the section is not contrary to human rights and the constitution, reports UNB. “Those who raised questions about section 57 of ICT Act didn’t…

The Editors’ Council yester­day strongly demanded the scrapping of section 57 of the Information and Commu­nication Technology Act. At a meeting, the Editors’ Council also condemned the misuse of the section, saying that the implementation of such laws bars free journalism. Criticising…

Iyad Ameen Madani, visiting secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), yesterday came down heavily on the government of Myanmar, accusing it of obstructing all the avenues to reach some sort of agreement to address the protracted Rohingya issue. Speaking to journalists after…

Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque yesterday justified the recent ‘gunfight’ saying law enforcers have the right to protect themselves. “The police (personnel) open fire in self-defence when they come under attack,” said the police chief while talking to newsmen…

Awami League (AL) presidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim yesterday said that the then Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) had paved the path for the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members in 1975. “Anti-liberation forces would not have dared to attack Bangabandhu…