Nothing in a principled defence of Sifat Abdullah requires sanitising his words. His Facebook video clip contains crude and degrading verbal abuse directed at Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and his deceased parents, former President Ziaur Rahman and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia.

About a month and a half has passed since the arrest and detention of leftist student leader Sheikh Tasnim Afroz Emi.

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Mohammad Shafiqur Rahman knew that his son got involved in militancy but remained silent, claimed a top counterterrorism official today.

Another suspected militant killed in Dhaka’s Nakhalpara raid on January 12 has been identified as Nafis Ul Islam.

Law enforcers submits a charge sheet against 28 people including Supreme Court lawyer Shakila Farjana, arrested for funding militants, in a case filed under anti-terrorism act.

A Dhaka court placed five Jamaat-e-Islami men on a 10-day remand each in two separate cases filed over creating anarchy and laundering money.

A Dhaka court places three suspected members of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on a four-day fresh remand in a case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act.

We are shocked, as would every responsible citizen of this country would be, to learn that a large number of terror suspects are going...