DHAKA: The parliamentary special committee for constitutional amendment has already done the preparatory work and will hold brainstorming meetings early September to finalise the amendment proposals incorporating major changes in the country’s basic laws and principles.Competent sources

DHAKA: In a major reversal of the post-1/11 actions of the emergency regime, the High Court Tuesday asked the government to return a hefty amount of Tk 297 crore seized from two big businesses amid a massive anti-graft drive. An HC bench comprising Justice Mamnun Rahman and Justice Sayeda

DHAKA: Two working brothers fell off the 18th floor of a building in the capital’s Motijheel area while painting the high-rise Tuesday and died a terrible death.   The deceased are identified as Mohammad Abbas, 30, and Mohammad Swapan, 28, the two poor brothers hailed from a backwater

DHAKA: Detained Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee will be produced before the international crimes tribunal (ICT) on September 21 when the war-crime-trial proceedings will resume.“The tribunal again directed the prison authorities to produce the detained Sayedee

DHAKA: No war-crime suspects would be allowed to perform Hajj this year, Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun said Tuesday following a government decision, as the trial of war criminals is now underway in the country. “The persons allegedly involved in crimes against humanity during

DHAKA: The Supreme Court set October 11 as the next date of hearing on a contempt of court charge against detained acting editor of the Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman.A six-member full bench, headed by chief justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim adjourned the hearing till the date Tuesday as Mahmudur

DHAKA: The sixth death anniversary of Awami League leader Ivy Rahman will be observed Tuesday.Ivy Rahman, wife of President Zillur Rahman, was severely injured in the August 21 gruesome grenade attack on an AL rally in 2004 and died on August 24. Ivy Rahman served as the Awami League

DHAKA: The High Court asked the authorities concerned to submit by September 27 all documents on opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s leasehold Dhaka cantonment residence which has come under eviction notice served by the present government. A High Court bench comprising Justice Najmun Ara

DHAKA: A High Court order for constituting food court and recruiting public analyst or food expert in the districts to prevent food adulteration is yet to be implemented even after the lapse of a year. Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed was unaware of such an HC order.“I don’t know

KISHOREGANJ: A Kishoreganj court Monday sent ULFA leader Major Ranjan Chowdhury and his associate Pradip Marak to jail.  Magistrate Md Ali Ahsan of Senior Judicial Court of Kishoreganj passed the order as they were produced before the court.The magistrate also asked police to submit

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was learnt to have asked her ministers and party MPs to be sincere in discharging their duties or else none would be spared if found guilty.“I won’t spare anybody if found guilty,” she was quoted as saying in a note of warning during Monday’s

DHAKA: The cabinet Monday approved the proposed Dhaka Elevated Expressway from the airport to the Dhaka-Chittagong-highway point under a gigantic scheme for resolving the nagging traffic congestions in the capital city. As approved, the elevated expressway runs through Hazrat Shahjalal

COMILLA: A bus carrying the students of Comilla University ran over a passerby in Mogoltuli area in the district town on Monday morning.Witnesses, said the bus ran over the man at about 9am, killing him on the spot. After the accident, the bus driver, helper and the students left the

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi University Chhatra League activist Nasirullah allies Nasim, sustained severe injuries during an intra-party clash on the campus on August 15, died at Dhaka Medical Collage Hospital (DMCH) Monday. RU proctor Prof Dr Chowdhury Mohammad Zakaria confirmed about the death of

DHAKA: The High Court Monday exonerated former minister and Chairman of Jatiya Party (Manju) Anwar Hossain Manju from conviction on charges of corruption overturning the judgment handed down by a special court during the emergency times.An HC bench of Justice Sayed Mohammad Dastagir

DHAKA: Amid some significant developments on the national front, the High Court Monday opened a process of review of the execution of military officer-turned-revolutionary Colonel Taher back during the days of political turmoil following the August 15, 1975 coup. The High Court issued

DHAKA:  The High Court Monday reprimanded Moulvibazar’s Deputy Commissioner Md Mostafizur Rahman as the defiant DC eventually stood in the dock on a contempt charge.An HC bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh Mohammah Zakir Hossain kept the district

DHAKA: The administration imposed an indefinite ban on street rallies and processions in the capital without prior permission, incidentally, a day before opposition BNP stages demonstrations under a two-day protest programme. “This order takes effect from Monday and lasts until further

DHAKA: The High Court Monday rejected a writ petition filed by two detained Jamaat leaders challenging the legality of some provisions of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Act and the first amendment to the constitution.  An HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad Abdul Wahhub Mia and

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday granted bail to Fazlul Haq Amini, former lawmaker and Chairman of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ), and another six accused in a house-grabbing case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court’s judge Abdur Rahim passed the order as the accused surrendered before the court