Bangladesh's main opposition BNP and its ally Jamaat-E-Islami have once again called for nationwide bandh and protest on Sunday, demanding death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in 1971. However, normalcy prevailed in Dhaka barring few pockets. ...
12:40 PM, Mar 10, 2013
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, and a furious Pyongyang threatened a nuclear strike against the United States. ...
02:50 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Bangladesh's main opposition BNP called for a nationwide shutdown on Thursday after police fired tear gas shells and rubber bullets to break up anti-government protests, injuring scores. Police fired rubber bullets and teargas shells at a BNP demonstration after being attacked by activists of Jamaat-e-Islami at Nayapaltan. ...
11:40 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Army on Tuesday night ordered a time-bound Court of Inquiry (CoI) into the firing incident in Baramulla district of Kashmir in which a youth was killed. ...
03:07 AM, Mar 06, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the current political turbulence in Bangladesh was an "internal political issue" and the rival factions of that country need to resolve it in a manner that is acceptable to all. ...
02:27 AM, Mar 06, 2013
A 25-year-old man was killed and four were injured in firing allegedly by security forces during protests in Baramulla town of north Kashmir on Tuesday. ...
11:12 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Main opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday said it would bring an adjournment motion in the state assembly on Wednesday to discuss the Baramulla firing incident. The adjournment motion would seek suspension of normal business to discuss the situation arising out of the killing of a youth in Baramulla, a PDP spokesman said here. ...
10:53 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah broke down in the Assembly on Tuesday evening after opposition PDP confronted him over the killing of a youth in Baramulla during protests earlier in the day. Baramulla witnessed protests on Tuesday over the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and the killing of a youth in Pulwama. ...
05:59 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Students protesting the death of a second year BCA student went on a rampage at their private institute, smashing window panes of five cars besides blocking an arterial road in Ghaziabad. ...
03:06 AM, Mar 05, 2013
As Bangladesh reeled under a violent political stand-off between ruling Awami League and opposition BNP and its fundamentalist ally Jamaat-e-Islami, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday sent a strong message to the country's political parties to stick to democratic values and rule of law. ...
09:49 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Violence continued unabated on the second day of the 48-hour nationwide strike in Bangladesh on Monday as the death toll rose to 83 in clashes that erupted after the conviction of three top Islamist leaders for 1971 war crimes. ...
08:35 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Twenty one more people have been killed in clashes between Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) supporters and police taking the toll to about 80 after a tribunal awarded death penalty to Islamist leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee for 1971 war crimes. A two-day strike called by JI that started on Sunday coincided with President Pranab Mukherjee's maiden visit to the country. ...
09:20 AM, Mar 04, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee is visiting Bangladesh on March 3-5, 2013 in a trip that is expected to take bilateral relations between the two neighbours to new heights. ...
07:22 AM, Mar 03, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Portuguese poured into the streets of Lisbon and other cities on Saturday to demand an end to austerity measures dictated by an international bailout and for the centre-right government to resign. ...
04:28 AM, Mar 03, 2013
The mother of three minor girls, who were raped and murdered in Maharashtra's Bhandara district in February, has threatened to return the compensation amount of Rs 10 lakh she received from the government and hit the street in protest if police failed to arrest the culprits in the next two days. ...
05:56 PM, Mar 02, 2013
The interrogation of four MNS workers has revealed that the car which was set on fire by MNS workers belonged to them. This new development comes following the police probe on four MNS workers. ...
03:22 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Expressing concern over eruption of violence in the country that has killed more than 46 people, the US has asked Bangladesh to help calm the ongoing situation and demanded citizens to engage in peaceful protest. ...
10:46 AM, Mar 02, 2013
The police claim to have recovered vital clues saying they are close to a breakthrough and have ruled out the role of an outsider in connection with the rape of a seven-year-old girl inside an MCD school in Mangolpuri on Friday. Four people including two teachers were questioned on Friday. ...
10:08 AM, Mar 02, 2013
Protesters clashed with police for the second day on Friday as the death toll rose to at least 44 from violence triggered by a death sentence given to an Islamic party leader for crimes linked to Bangladesh's 1971 independence war, police said. ...
08:00 AM, Mar 02, 2013
Bangladesh on Friday deployed paramilitary border guards to beef up security after a top Islamist opposition leader was sentenced to death, sparking nationwide riots that killed at least 42 people. "Our troops were deployed in 15 troubled districts in aide of civil administration... BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) has been kept alert so it could move immediately wherever they are required," BGB chief major General Aziz Ahmed told reporters. ...
03:35 PM, Mar 01, 2013
