Australia’s immigration minister says a group of asylum seekers whoreached the country’s Cocos Islands territory last week has been sent back to Sri Lanka. The vessel, carrying 12 people, came within 500m of Home Island. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the asylum seekers, all Sri Lankans, were returned on 6 May. He also announced that Australia had intercepted three asylum boats…

The star power of owner Shah Rukh Khan and consistent on-field performance in recent years have catapulted Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders into the profit zone even as most other franchises of the popular twenty20 tournament are yet to hit pay dirt. Kolkata Knight Riders, or KKR, posted the highest revenues among all IPL teams in 2014-15, the last year for which data was available,…

In a written statement served to media, the New York Based human right watchdog Human Rights Watch on Monday urged Bangladesh government to suspend the death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami with immediate effect.   In the statement HRW said, “The death sentence against Motiur Rahman Nizami, the head of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islaami party, should be suspended…

According to the observation of Bangladeshi police and a bank official, Bangladesh's central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before $81 million cyber heist. Mohammad Shah Alam, the head of the criminal investigation department of the Bangladesh police who is…

The jail authority read out the full verdict of the Supreme Court that rejected the review petition of condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami before him this night at Dhaka Central Jail.   According to the jail sources, DIG (Prisons) Golam Haider, Senior Jail Super of the Dhaka Central Jail Jahangir Kabir, jailer Nesar Alam and deputy jailer Lavlu Miah entered the condemned cell of the jail,…

In bid to foil any untoward situation, security in and around the Dhaka Central Jail has been beefed up after the full verdict of the Supreme Court scraping the review petition of the condemned war criminal reached the jail on Monday evening. Quoting Deputy Commissioner (Lalbagh division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mafiz Uddin UNB said that they strengthened the security in and around the…

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Monday evening has said that the jail authorities can execute the death sentence of convicted war criminal Matiur Rahman Nizami any time if he does not seek presidential mercy.   He came up with this statement while speaking to media at his office.   Once the jail authority gets the copy of the verdict, they can start the process for executing according…

The Bagladesh foreign office today has strongly protested against a statement by the Pakistan foreign ministry on the Supreme Court verdict that rejected the review plea against death penalty for Jamaat leader Motiur Rahman Nizami. Foreign Ministry summoned Pakistan high commissioner to Bangladesh Shuja Alam on Monday afternoon to lodge the protest formally. Foreign secretary (bilateral) Mizanur Rahman…

Supreme Court today sent the copy of verdict to the International Crimes Tribunal after publishing full verdict on death row convict war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami that scrapped his review plea against death for war crimes committed in 1971.   The full judgement was released after the judges concerned signed on it, said Additional Registrar General of the High Court division Sabbir Faiz.  …

Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami chief and 1971 war crimes convict Motiur Rahman Nizami has been shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from a suburban prison as his execution seemed imminent. “He (Nizami) has been brought here (Dhaka Jail) last night as part of the process to execute the Supreme Court verdict. We are prepared to carry out the process in Dhaka Central Jail,” a senior prison official…

The man, whom police did not identify, accidentally toppled Dom Sebastiao's statue after climbing up to its pedestal outside the ornate Rossio railway station in central Lisbon just before midnight on Tuesday. He tried to flee the scene but police caught him. He will appear before a judge at a later date. The child-sized statue of the sad-eyed, sword-wielding king stood in a niche between two…

Bollywood actress Prachi Desai, who will be again seen in a girl next door image in her next film “Azhar”, agrees that she has been victim of her own image. The actress, who previously played the sweet girl image role in films like “Rock On!!”, “Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai”, will once again be seen in somewhat similar character in Emran Hashmi starrer film. The…

Dhaka has asked Islamabad to refrain from interfering in Bangladesh's internal affairs like trial of crime against humanity in 1971 and stop misinterpreting 'Bangladesh, India and Pakistan Tripartite Agreement' signed in April 1974. "We never welcome anybody's interference in our internal affairs. But, they (Pakistan) are doing this despite giving them repeated reminders,"…

Mighty Abahani Limited will face spirited Usha Krira Chakra in the final match of the Club Cup Hockey to be played on Monday afternoon at the Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium. Both of the team hopes that they will be able to clinch the title if they can play their normal play. The final will kick off at 3 pm. Private television channel ATN Bangla will beam the match live from the hockey stadium.…

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday slammed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad for his remark that the fourth phase of the Union Parishad (UP) election was fair. Terming his statements and activities sound like of a clown, he also alleged that the UP polls have been marred by huge casualties and violence as the CEC has indulged in anti-constitutional…