A Bangladesh national and employee of Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata reportedly committed suicide yesterday, UNB reports. The victim, identified as Azizul Islam, 50, was the personal assistant of first secretary (press) of the mission Md Mofakkharul Iqbal, a source in Kolkata said. Contacted,…

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is scheduled to hold a press conference today on the country’s latest political situation and voice her party’s strong stance against Rampal power plant, reports UNB. The news conference will be held at 4:30pm at her Gulshan office, her media wing member Sayrul…

Minister for Liberation War affairs AKM Mozammel Haque yesterday said the state would be freed from an age-old stigma by banning the politics of Jamaat soon, reports BSS. “Besides, all the properties of Jamaat would be confiscated for distribution among the families of the martyred freedom fighters,”…

War crimes convict and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali yesterday filed another petition with the Supreme Court seeking a three-week deferment of hearing on his review petition filed seeking reconsideration of his death penalty in war crimes case. A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed…