President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed the hope that the visit of Pope Francis to Bangladesh would further strengthen the country's relationship with Vatican City, reports BSS.  They expressed the hope in separate messages on the eve of the three-day apostolic…

International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday termed the BDR carnage trial, which saw the high court sentencing 139 to death and 146 to life imprisonment on Monday, as flawed and said families of the mutiny victims deserve better answers than ‘this mass roundup’. Families…

A Catholic priest has disappeared in Bangladesh, police said yesterday, as the Muslim-majority country stepped up security ahead of a landmark visit by Pope Francis that follows a rise in Islamist attacks on religious minorities, reports AFP in Dhaka. Walter William Rosario, a 40-year-old priest and…

Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, the convicted killer of Scholastica student Shazneen Tasnim Rahman,was hanged at Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur yesterday, reports UNB. The verdict was executed around 9:45pm, said Senior Jail Super Mizanur Rahman. On August 2 last year, the Supreme Court…