Faisal Mahmud

Dha­ka court pro­nounces ver­dict in the 2004 killing of Hu­mayun Azad by mem­bers of a now-banned Mus­lim group.

Guests can dine like Dha­ka’s old aris­toc­ra­cy, roam the gar­den of a colo­nial home, and dive into Za­min­dar his­to­ry.

Anan­ta Bi­joy Das’s killing was part of a se­ries of mur­ders of blog­gers and sec­u­lar ac­tivists be­tween 2013 and 2016.

Gov­ern­ment is­sues 11-point di­rec­tive, in­clud­ing manda­to­ry COVID pass­es and re­stric­tions on events and trans­port.

Ex­perts be­lieve there are wider im­pli­ca­tions of last week’s sanc­tions against Bangladesh’s no­to­ri­ous para­mil­i­tary force.

Abrar Fa­had, 21, was beat­en to death by fel­low stu­dents at the Bangladesh Uni­ver­si­ty of En­gi­neer­ing and Tech­nol­o­gy.

Op­po­si­tion sup­port­ers stage protests de­mand­ing Khale­da Zia be al­lowed to trav­el abroad for treat­ment.

Schools re­opened af­ter 543 days of clo­sure as coun­try’s virus sit­u­a­tion eas­es and more peo­ple are vac­ci­nat­ed.

Court or­ders the death penal­ty for mem­bers of a banned group for the bru­tal mur­ders five years ago.