Dhaka: The son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and 29 others were on Sunday indicted by a special court for a grenade attack in 2004 that killed 24 people. The special court framed the charges against 30 people, including Zia's son Tarique Rahman, who is currently in Britain, Xinhua reported. The court set March 28 for the next hearing in the case. Twenty-four people, including Awami League leader...
08:01 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Dhaka: Former premier and leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia on Thursday became the first ex-Bangladeshi Prime Minister to appear before a court, which granted her eight weeks of interim bail in connection with a graft case. Court officials said the former premier appeared this afternoon before a two-member bench headed by Judge Syed M Dastagir Husain, who granted her the bail in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. The...
08:14 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court on Sunday issued arrest warrants for the fugitive eldest son of former premier Khaleda Zia and 17 others over a 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally that killed 24 people and injured some 300 people, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Forty six year old Tarique Rahman, who is now in London on a government parole for treatment since 2008, has been indicted for abetting...
08:36 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Dhaka: A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, to six years in prison for illegally acquiring $2.7 million in corrupt payments, court officials said. The verdict could fuel street protests by Khaleda's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its Islamist allies who say the charges against Koko were politically motivated and pushed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government. Khaleda...
03:48 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Pacts with India a sellout: ex-Bangladesh PM ...
06:36 PM, Jan 17, 2010
Hasina is scheduled to travel to India later this month. ...
10:23 PM, Jan 02, 2010
Three million unarmed people were killed during Bangladesh's war. ...
10:57 PM, Apr 05, 2009
Indian intelligence officials say salary grievance could not result in mutiny. ...
11:41 PM, Feb 26, 2009
At least 50 killed since Wednesday as troops fight among themselves. ...
11:13 AM, Feb 26, 2009
She claims voting was rigged at more than 200 polling stations all across the country. ...
07:55 PM, Dec 31, 2008
Hasina's alliance wins 258 seats in B'desh parliamentary polls. ...
10:46 AM, Dec 30, 2008
Sheikh Hasina is racing to a landslide victory in Bangladesh elections. ...
08:32 AM, Dec 30, 2008
The vote was a return to democracy after two years of emergency rule. ...
08:07 PM, Dec 29, 2008
Zia was jailed on Sep 3 last year, she received bail in all the four graft cases. ...
02:26 PM, Sep 11, 2008
Khaleda Zia was the prime minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996. ...
11:02 AM, Jul 18, 2008
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