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  The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), will be observed today with due religious fervour    and solemnity. On this day in the Hijri year of 61, Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), along with his family members and 72 of his followers sacrificed their lives in the hands of Yazid's soldiers at Karbala desert. He stood for the supremacy of justice and righteousness. The day is a public holiday. Various religious and social organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the day. Shia community members will bring out tazia processions in the capital, marking the day. Meanwhile, President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia have issued separate messages on the occasio...

© DPA Facebook Facebook users continue to fall for the same old scams, according to new research, with even well-educated people giving themselves up to inappropriate and even dangerous behaviour on the social network.In a two-year study of over 850,000 Facebook scams by Bitdefender, the internet security company revealed that scammers have infected millions of users with the same repackaged tricks.Almost half of social media threats prey on users’ curiosity to check who has viewed their profile. The most popular Facebook scam offers users the chance to see if ex-boyfriends or girlfriends have stalked them online. Around one in three scams attract victims with features that Facebook doesn’t even have – such as dislike buttons and different timeline colours, appealing to users' desire to...

News Desk: Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has said there is no chance to file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict which upheld the tribunal's verdict giving death penalty to Kamaruzzaman.   "There is no scope to file a review petition according to the International Crimes (Tribunal) Act, 1973", he said. He also said, “Although in the case of Abdul Quader Mollah the defence had filed a review petition, the High Court rejected it." The defence, however, said they would file a petition to review the verdict of the Appellate Division (AD).

This undated photo shows law enforcers taking war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to a police van in the capital. Photo taken from Facebook/ Muhammad Kamaruzzaman The Supreme Court today upheld the death penalty to war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman for one charge but commuted the highest penalty to life term imprisonment for another charge. A four-member SC bench headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict at 9:10am upholding the death of Kamaruzzaman for killing 164 people at Sohagpur village in Sherpur during the Liberation War in 1971 by majority view. The apex court commuted his death penalty to life term imprisonment for killing Golam Mostafa at Gridda Narayanpur village in Sherpur. The Jamaat senior assistant secretary general’s exe...

Death for Quasem 10 out of 14 charges proved; defence to appeal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali shows V-sign on Sunday from a prison van at Dhaka Central Jail gate. He has been taken to jail after International Crimes Tribunal-2 awarded him death penalty for his crimes against humanity committed during the country's Liberation War in 1971. Photo: Palash Khan A special tribunal in Dhaka today handed death penalty to Mir Quasem Ali, infamous for leading Al-Badr force in torturing freedom fighters at a hotel in Chittagong, to death for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. Ten out of 14 charges have been proved against the 62-year-old, International Crimes Tribunal-2 announced while delivering the verdict. As the third most powerful man of the Al-Badr f...

The country suffered power outages on Saurday as the Bangladesh-India power interconnection line at Bheramara in Kushtia tripped. After the disaster, the whole power transmission and distribution collapsed, plunging the country into blackout.

Key share price index in the country’s twin bourses—Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – returned  to black yesterday, the last trading day of the week, report agencies. Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) saw a sharp rebound yesterday upward with all market indicators substantially recovering the past two sessions’ losses. DSEX, the broader price index, regained 63.80 points to finish the week at 5173.2. The two selective indices - the blue-chip DS30 and the Shariah DSES - returned to the positive zone with 30.15 points and 17.20 points gain respectively. The DS30 ended the week at 1949.47 when the DSES closed at 1220.04. The market activities shoot up with nearly 33 per cent rise in the trade value and over 44 per cent in volume when 17.92 crore shares worth Taka 72...

The 10 highest-paid jobs you can do from home Fed up with the daily grind? These are the skills you need if you want to work from home  Yahoo Finance UK/Fotolia - (Photo Yahoo Finance/Fotolia) Financial writing and contract drafting are some of the best paid jobs you can do from home Moneywise - Thu, Jul 31, 2014 11:50 BST The number of people working from home has surged in recent years. The economic downturn, coupled with changes in work patterns, means that freelancers have become the fastest growing group in the UK labour market.There are now 4.2m home workers - a rise of 30pc from 1998, according to the Office for National Statistics.Elance-oDesk, a jobs website which businesses use to hire freelancers across the world, says that 2.7m jobs are posted each ...

The United States has reiterated its support for trial to bringing to justice those who committed atrocities in the 1971 Liberation War but reminded that trials should be fair and transparent maintaining the international standards. “We understand the importance of this process in closing a painful chapter in Bangladesh’s…Bangladeshi history,” said Jen Psaki, spokesperson of the US Department of Sate. She made the remark when a questioner at the regular briefing in Washington on Wednesday wanted to know whether the US believes that the trial was fair and transparent as the top Jamaat leader and war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami was awarded death penalty. The US spokesperson referred to US Ambassador-at-Large Stephen Rapp who has said countries that impose a death penalty must do so wi...

Motiur Rahman Nizami News Desk: The head of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party has been sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971. Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, faced 16 charges including genocide, murder, torture and rape. A state prosecutor said the sentence reflected the "gravity of the crimes". There are different estimates for the number of people killed in the nine-month Bangladeshi war of secession. Government figures suggest as many as three million people died, while some say that figure is too high and unverifiable. A war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh with a three-judge panel announced the verdict to a packed courtroom in Dhaka. Nizami, who was head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was accused of acting as supreme commander ...