Bangladesh’s apex court upheld Delwar Hossain Sayeedi’s life sentence for crimes against humanity during the 1971 war while siding with Pakistani troops
2 min read15 May 2017Mir Quasem Ali, a key financier of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed for murder, confinement, torture and incitement to religious hatred during the war
2 min read4 Sep 2016Jamaat-e-Islami, which has said the charges against Nizami were baseless, called for a nationwide strike on Wednesday in protest
2 min read11 May 2016Nizami’s execution would exacerbate tensions in Bangladesh after a string of killings of secular and liberal activists by suspected Islamist militants
2 min read10 May 2016Mohammad Shahidullah had been missing since leaving home on Friday morning before villagers last night found his body in a pool of blood in a mango grove in Rajshahi
2 min read7 May 2016The court, accused by rights groups of holding flawed proceedings, said the four were involved in the deaths of nine people
1 min read3 May 2016Amnesty International noted that Bangladesh sees homosexual relations as a crime, making it harder for LGBT activists to report threats against them
3 min read26 Apr 2016The unidentified student is a member of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist opposition party the Jamaat-e-Islami
2 min read24 Apr 2016The spread and cultivated fury of extremism in Bangladesh is a subject that Dhaka liberals and Awami Leaguesnot always the same speciesstalwarts prefer to downplay
4 min read14 Jan 2016Jamaat calls a nationwide ’prayer day’ for Sunday and a strike on Monday in protest at Kamaruzzaman’s execution
3 min read12 Apr 2015The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared