13 Jamaat-Shibir men charged for Chittagong blast
Police have submitted charge sheet against 13 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir for their involvement in exploding crude bombs that left a school girl severely injured last year.
Investigation Officer in the case Sub-inspector Kamruzzaman placed the charge sheet before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Moshiur Rahman's court on Thursday afternoon.
CPB rally blast: 13 including Mufti Hannan indicted
A Dhaka court has framed charges against 13 accused including Huji leader Mufti Hannan in connection with the blast in a rally of Communist Party of Bangladesh.
Dhaka’s Third Additional Metropolitan Session’s Judge KM Imrul Kayes framed the charges in presence of the accused on Thursday afternoon.
4 killed in Kishoreganj road crash
Four people have been killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Baradia area under Pakundia upazila of Kishoregang on Thursday noon.
Pakundia police station Officer-in-Charge Zakir Rabbani has confirmed about the deaths to the Dhaka Tribune.
BCL clash leaves 10 injured at JU
At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Maulana Bhashani Hall unit of Jahangirnagar University over establishing supremacy on the campus on Thursday morning.
University sources said a group of activists of the Maulana Bhashani Hall unit BCL led by Aninda, its general secretary, stormed the rooms of Humayun Kabir, organising secretary of the university unit BCL, Shakil Ahmed, president of the hall unit, and Raknuzzaman Shabuj, member of the unit, chopped three of them and injured their seven room mates around 4:30am.
Bodies of 3 Bangladeshis arrive in Dhaka
The bodies of three Bangladeshi construction workers who were killed when a concrete span collapsed at the Mass Rapid Transit work site in Sungai Buloh, Malaysia have arrived in Dhaka on Thursday morning.
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the bodies of Mohamad Faruk Khan, Mohammad Elahi Hossain and Mohammad Alauddin Mollik landed at the Shahjalal International Airport at 6:30am.
Thai junta leader appointed PM
Thailand's coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha was appointed prime minister on Thursday by a legislature he hand-picked, giving the army chief a veneer of legitimacy even while the military presses on with efforts to silence its critics.
The army seized power on May 22 in a bloodless coup following six months of sometimes deadly street protests that contributed to the ousting of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose populist government was opposed by the Bangkok royalist establishment.
Hamas: Airstrike kills 3 military leaders in Gaza
The Islamic militant group Hamas says three of its senior military leaders have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas says in a text message sent to media that the three — Mohammed Abu Shamaleh, Mohammed Barhoum and Raed al-Attar — were killed in the Israeli airstrike near the southern town of Rafah early on Thursday.
