(11 Dec 2013) An Islamist opposition leader in Bangladesh has been spared execution after a judge in Dhaka granted him a reprieve shortly before he was due to be hanged. Abdul Quader Mollah was convicted of crimes committed during the nation’s war of independence against Pakistan in 1971. He was due to be executed at…… Read More
(3 May 2016) A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced four men to death for killing, torture, arson and looting during the nation’s 1971 war of independence against Pakistan. Tuesday’s ruling is likely to aggravate the divide between moderates and extremists in the Sunni-majority nation, which is grappling with a wave of deadly…… Read More
(29 Jul 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Sylhet – 26 July 2022 1. Police and other law enforcement personnel entering Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital 2. Police and others standing in front of the intensive care unit (ICU) 3. Doctors coming out of ICU 4. Signboard of ICU 5. Police high officials coming out…… Read More
(20 Mar 1996) Natural Sound The army has been called in to restore law and order in Bangladesh after a violent general strike crippled the country. Fighting has erupted between soldiers and demonstrators in the capital, Dhaka. The government has sent in the army to help restore order in Dhaka and Chittagong, to open blockaded…… Read More
(1 Jun 2015) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY AP TELEVISION – AP CLIENTS ONLY Dhaka – 1 June 2015 1. Various of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) personnel carrying chargesheet documents into court 2. CID lead investigator Bijoy Krishna Kar entering court inspector’s office 3. Various of CID intelligence and prosecution officials working on documents in…… Read More
(7 Jun 2016) A university professor on his way to work in northwestern Bangladesh was hacked to death on April 23rd 2016 in an attack similar to other killings by suspected Muslim militants, police said. A.F.M. Rezaul Karim Siddique was attacked on the way to the state-run university in Rajshahi city, where he taught English,…… Read More
(23 Dec 2021) Indian villagers of Oting remain haunted by events earlier this month, when more than a dozen civilians and a soldier were killed in a series of attacks in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland. Twelve men, most of them coal miners, were from Oting village. The violence, among the deadliest to hit…… Read More