Bangladesh Conflict & Tragedy News

A suspected leader of outlawed extremist outfit Purba Bangla Communist Party was killed in a shootout with law enforcers at Santhia in Pabna early Friday, police said...He said a police squad went to the spot at around 1:15am. "The criminals...

Kerala leader of opposition Oommen Chandy Sunday said arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative T. Nazeer had reportedly come under the state police scanner twice but had been let off...Nazeer was allegedly involved in the 2005 terror attack on the Indian Institute...

Around November 22, 2008, six days after Tahawwur Rana, 48, one of two Pakistan origin US citizens at the centre of a FBI terror investigation, visited Kochi, ostensibly as an immigration consultant, a Muscat-based LeT intermediary received a call from...

A Narsingdi district court on Monday handed down death sentences to seven men convicted of the murder of college student Mahbubur Rahman last year. Additional district and sessions judge AKM Abul Kashem also gave two other accused life sentences. Student...

The government has shuffled three district judges and nine additional district judges, while 11 joint district judges and additional chief magistrates were promoted to additional district judge rank. A law ministry notice issued Monday said the changes were made after...

The Bangladesh Supreme Court rejected Thursday an appeal by the convicted killers of the nation's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, paving the way for their execution after a 13-year trial. The country's highest court dismissed the five men's appeal, upholding...

The Supreme Court will deliver the final verdict on Bangabandhu murder appeals at 11am on Thursday. The five-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Justice Mohammed Tafazzal Islam, will hand down the verdict at the court room-1, the room...

Police recovered two "bomb-like" packages from Chandpur Railway Station Wednesday. An official said they could not be sure if they were bombs, but security had been beefed at the station and the town after the event. Chandpur police super Krishnapad...

Dhaka, Nov 14 (bdnews24.com)�Bangladesh Chhatra League activists reportedly beat up Shahbag flower traders and vandalised their shops on Saturday after being refused extortion money. Local traders alleged a gang of residential students from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall, led by...

Chittagong, Nov 13 (bdnews24.com)�Seven people were killed when a microbus collided with a truck at Patia on Friday. The microbus was carrying people to Gairala village in Patia after a wedding party in Lohagara Upazila. Patia Police Station sub-inspector Mizanur...