The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today ordered authorities concerned to publish notices on two national dailies, asking ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to appear before it within seven days (June 24). The former Prime Minister, her Home Minister Kamal and police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun are accused in a crimes against humanity case filed over the monstrous crimes committed during the July-August mass uprising. Earlier, the ICT-1 on June 1 took the formal charge, filed by the prosecution in the case, into cognizance and set today for passing further order in this connection.…
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The United Nations (UN) today commended the Interim Government of Bangladesh for its significant initiatives in addressing the issue of enforced disappearances, particularly welcoming the country’s accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED). The appreciation came during a meeting between Acting Foreign Secretary Md. Ruhul Alam Siddique and Grazyna Baranowska, Vice-Chairperson, and Ana Lorena Delgadillo Perez, member of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), held at the foreign ministry, said a ministry’s press release here. During the meeting, the WGEID representatives briefed the Acting Foreign Secretary on…
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul today urged the government employees to keep their agitation in abeyance until the high-level committee, formed in this connection, submits its report. The government on June 4 last formed the committee with the law adviser as its convener to make recommendations to the government through discussion with the agitating parties for reviewing the Public Service (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025. “We (the committee) will hold first meeting at 4 pm today. I have the demands raised by the government employees. We will decide which of those demands will be considered and how those…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said press freedom must be ensured to safeguard democracy. “The press freedom must be ensured to defend democracy,” he said in a message issued on the occasion of the Black Day for Newspaper today. Tarique Rahman said, “June 16, 1975, is a black day in the history of Bangladesh. On this day, the then rulers abolished all parties and established an extremely authoritarian one-party BAKSAL, allowing only 4 newspapers loyal to them to be published, leaving the entire nation gagged”. “As a result, a huge number of journalists working in various…
Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain has said the youth development department has taken an initiative to provide skill development training to 9 lakh youths including 5 lakh young women. “The Department of Youth Development has started working to include a total of 9 lakh youths, including 5 lakh young women, who are not in jobs or training, in economic and social activities by 2028,” he wrote in his verified Facebook account. The adviser said the Earn project of the youth department will enhance the skill of youths in work-oriented, suitable and environment-friendly sectors, create long-term employment and…
Indian health officials have begun handing relatives the bodies of their loved ones after one of the world’s worst plane crashes in decades, but most families were still waiting Monday for results of DNA testing. While mourners have held funerals for some of the 279 people killed when the Air India jet crashed in the western city of Ahmedabad, others are facing an anguished wait. “They said it would take 48 hours. But it’s been four days and we haven’t received any response,” said Rinal Christian, 23, whose elder brother was a passenger on the jetliner. There was one survivor…
(BSS) – Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr. Ahsan H. Mansur today said that the United Kingdom (UK) is providing full support to Bangladesh in recovering laundered money linked to individuals associated with the regime of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “The government is in intensive discussion with UK to recover laundered money. Our communication with the UK is deep at the technical level. They are also supporting us in the preparation of documents,” he told a media briefing at his office, following his visit to London from June 10 to June 13 as part of the Chief Adviser’s delegation. Mansur…
In the wake of the emergence of a new COVID strain, health experts have urged the public to remain calm, emphasizing the need for increased awareness and precaution rather than panic. Their appeal came amid growing public concern following the recent deaths of three individuals linked to the new variant of COVID, the first fatalities in Bangladesh in nearly a year and a half. Meanwhile, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has issued 11 precautionary guidelines as one elderly patient passed away on June 5 while another on June 13 in Dhaka and another in Chattogram. Public health experts have…
The Israeli military said early Monday that it was striking surface-to-surface missile sites in Iran, its latest move in three days of escalating conflict between the rival states. “The IDF is currently striking surface-to-surface missile sites in central Iran,” Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Nadav Shoshani wrote on X. “We are operating against this threat in our skies and in Iranian skies.”
DJ Desk US President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Iran and Israel — who are locked in an exchange of military strikes — to “make a deal,” but suggested they might need to “fight it out” first. “I think it’s time for a deal,” Trump told reporters, as Israel and Iran exchanged a fresh barrage of missile strikes and threatened more devastation in a conflict that appeared to be intensifying. “But sometimes they have to fight it out, but we’re going to see what happens,” Trump said, speaking at the White House before heading to Canada to take part in…
