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  The human rights situation in Bangladesh was alarming in 2014, says an annual report published by Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) today. At least 88 people became victims of forced disappearance this year. Twelve of them returned while bodies of 23 were found later, Ain o Salish Kendra Executive Director Sultana Kamal said while placing the report on human rights situation of the country. Two people were sent to jail on different charges while the rests’ whereabouts were not known, she told reporters at Dhaka Reporters Unity. According to the report, 128 people were killed in “gunfights” with the law enforcers across the country this year which numbered at 72 in 2013. “This year, we have seen a tendency of law enforcers to shoot the victims in their legs during the gunfights,” Sult...

    Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam was awarded death penalty on three charges of genocide, mass killing and crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. The Al-Badr commander of Rangpur was also sentenced to 25 and five years imprisonment on two other charges as the International Crimes Tribunal-1 found him guilty for five out of six charges.   Azharul, the assistant secretary general of Jamaat, was president of Rangpur district unit Islami Chhatra Sangha in 1971. 5 out of 6 charges proved Death penalty on charges of genocide, mass killing and crimes against humanity 25 years imprisonment for rape 5 years imprisonment for torture While reading out the summary of the 158-page verdict, Chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-1 Justice...

  At least six people including a woman were killed and 24 injured as a freight lorry rammed a train at Inland Container Terminal of Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka this afternoon. Death toll may rise Railway minister apologises Probe committee formed Two died on the spot while the four others succumbed to their injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Of the deceased, three were identified as Majibur Rahman, 60, of Mirpur in the capital, Alamgir Hossain, 45, and Nayem while identities of the three others could not be known immediately. The incident took place around 12:45pm, Abdul Mazid, officer-in-charge of Dhaka Railway Police Station told The Daily Star Online. As the passenger train from Narayanganj, 219-Narayangaj Local, was coming to Dhaka, the lorry of ...

  Four-year-old Jihad who fell hundreds of feet down into an unsealed abandoned deep tube well in Dhaka’s Shahjahanpur area died of drowning, doctors said today. After performing autopsy, Professor Dr Habibuzzaman Chowdhury, head of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s forensic department, made the revelation this morning. “The death is due to drowning. We performed tests and ascertained that Jihad had all symptoms of drowning” he told reporters at a press conference at the hospital premises. “Jihad had marks on his head. But he drowned before the head injury could prove fatal.” According to the doctor, the boy survived in the depths of the well, more than 250 feet, for about an hour after he fell down the well around 4:00pm on Friday. “Jihad died around 5:00pm-5:30pm on Friday,” ...

  There was no Bangladeshi citizen on board the missing Air Asia flight carrying 155 people from Indonesia, which lost contact with air traffic control today. Flight QZ 8501, an Airbus 320-200, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 am (2317 GMT), Indonesian Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa told media. Indonesian media said 156 Indonesians, three people from Korea, and one each from Singapore, Franch and Malaysia were on board, according to BBC.

Habiganj Municipality Mayor Golam Kibria Gaus sent to jail hours after he surrendered before a court in connection with former finance minister SAMS Kibria murder case. Gaus, general secretary of district BNP, surrendered before the Court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Rokeya Akter of Habiganj in the morning. Earlier on December 21, a Habiganj court issued arrest warrants against 11 people, including BNP leaders Gaus, Harris Chowdhury, and Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury in the case. SAMS Kibria, then an opposition lawmaker, was assassinated in a grenade attack while addressing a rally in Habiganj on January 27, 2005. The blast also killed Kibria's nephew Shah Manzur Huda, local AL leader Abdur Rahim and two others. Apart from Ariful and former premier Khaleda Zia...

They left the port with an entire vessel without sufficient knowledge of sea navigation and suffered the consequences with the cost of three lives and the cargo-laden ship! The captain and the chief engineer, both from Bangladesh, of the sunken Cambodian cargo vessel “Ming Guang” were taken to Tokyo after they were rescued from northern Japan coast where the ship capsized with scrap metals on its way to South Korea. Mostofa Kamal, the captain, hailing from Bagerhat, was a labourer in Mongla port. His academic education is extended up to grade three in a primary school, Mohammed Nore-Alam, the counsellor at Bangladesh embassy in Tokyo, told The Daily Star over phone. Meanwhile, the “chief engineer” of the ship, Moniruzzaman, passed intermediate examinations and was also a labourer of t...

    Twenty-three hours into his fall, body of four-year-old boy Jihad was recovered from a deep well shaft at Shahjahanpur in Dhaka despite the authorities' repeated expression of doubt that there was anyone inside. Doctors to Dhaka Medical College Hospital confirmed the child was "brought dead" around 3:30pm. Three volunteers made the recovery over 12 hours into announcement by State Minister for Home Asaduzaman Khan Kamal and Director General of Fire Service that no human being was found in the shaft. The volunteers, who worked at the collapsed Rana Plaza, used a locally developed metal-rod cage to pull the child. There are marks of injury in his body and the child was not moving when he was pulled out of the well shaft, our correspondent reports from the spot. Angry o...

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Gazipur district administration today imposed Section 144 in the district as both BNP and Bangladesh Chhatra League, student front of ruling Awami League, have crossed swords centring Saturday’s rally at Bhawal Bodr-E-Alam Government College ground in the Sadar upazila. The section 144 was imposed banning all sorts of political activities like rally, demonstration and mass gathering  in the district and it will remain active until farther direction, our Gazipur Correspondent reports quoting Harun-ur-Rashid, superintendent of police in Gazipur. He was talking to reporters at a press briefing held at the meeting venue of Bhawal Bodr-E-Alam Government College ground this afternoon. The Gazipur district administration came up with the decision after a closed-door meeting held between i...