Bangladesh remains calm a day after tribunal issues death sentence for ousted PM Sheikh HasinaFormer Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death in absentia for her role in suppressing a student uprising last year. Despite a ...
19 Nov, 2025, 08.12 AM IST
Global rights groups, think tanks question fairness of Bangladesh's ex-PM Hasina's trialInternational rights groups are questioning the fairness of Sheikh Hasina's death sentence. The former Bangladesh prime minister was senten...
18 Nov, 2025, 03.44 PM IST
India must ensure Sheikh Hasina's safety at any cost: Congress' Abhishek SinghviSinghvi has expressed concern, stating that the sentence is a "chilling red flag" and emphasised that India must ensure her safety at any c...
18 Nov, 2025, 11.38 AM IST
UN says verdict against Hasina 'important' step for victims but regrets death penaltyIn a watershed moment, a Bangladeshi court has pronounced a death sentence against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in absentia, for he...
18 Nov, 2025, 09.36 AM IST
Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death: Implications for Bangladesh's political landscapeFormer Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death. The International Crimes Tribunal delivered the verdict for vio...
17 Nov, 2025, 11.53 PM IST
Bangladesh seeks Sheikh Hasina handover; India breaks silence on verdictBangladesh has requested India to hand over former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and ex-Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. Both were ...
17 Nov, 2025, 08.27 PM IST
Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death: What are the charges against ousted Bangladesh PM? Explained in 10 pointsBangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in abstentia by a court in Dhaka for crimes against humanity o...
17 Nov, 2025, 04.56 PM IST
Ex-Bangladesh minister acquitted in arms smuggling caseThe Dhaka High Court acquitted six individuals, including former minister Lutfozzaman Babar, in the 2004 Chittagong arms smuggling case. Ul...
19 Dec, 2024, 12.01 AM IST
20 Bangladesh students sentenced to death for political murderAll those given death sentences were between 20 and 22 years old at the time of the murder and attended the elite Bangladesh University of ...
08 Dec, 2021, 04.25 PM IST
Bangladesh court upholds death sentence of 139 BDR soldiersThe judgement comes four years after a lower court in Dhaka handed down capital punishment to 152 and life term to 158 soldiers of the BDR.
27 Nov, 2017, 05.52 PM IST
10 sentenced to death for attempting to assassinate Sheikh HasinaTwenty-five suspects had been accused in the Special Powers Act case. Nine received 20 years in prison and were fined 20,000 taka each, whi...
20 Aug, 2017, 03.14 PM IST
Four Bangladesh war crimes convicts get death sentencesBangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) in the capital also awarded "imprisonment until death" to a fifth war criminal for carr...
03 May, 2016, 05.47 PM IST
Bangladesh top court upholds Jamaat leader's death sentenceBangladesh's SC today upheld the death sentence of a top Islamist leader for war crimes during the country's independence struggle against ...
08 Mar, 2016, 12.04 PM IST
HuJI leader Abu Bakar arrested in BangladeshIn June 2014, court sentenced Bakar & Hannan to death & 6 others of HuJI were sentenced to life for the blasts during Bangla New Year celeb...
06 Nov, 2014, 09.42 PM IST
Bangladesh's Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Jamaat stalwartQuamruzzaman, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat, is the third war crimes convict whose appeal was disposed off in the Supreme Court.
03 Nov, 2014, 11.29 AM IST
Bangladeshi media doyen Mir Quasem Ali gets death for 1971 war crimes"He (Ali) shall be hanged by neck until he is dead," pronounced chairman of the three-member tribunal as the 62-year-old Jamaat leader look...
02 Nov, 2014, 01.38 PM IST
Bangladesh war crimes trial an internal matter: IndiaIndia today termed as "internal matter" the decision by the Bangladesh Supreme Court to give death sentence to fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Isla...
18 Sep, 2013, 08.47 PM IST