In a legal process spanning nearly five years, Jamaat-e-Islami's secretary general and former minister Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed has been handed the death penalty.

A tribunal in Dhaka asks prosecution to submit on April 13 the formal charges against eight suspected war criminals for their crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.

A tribunal in Dhaka exonerates 14 dignitaries of contempt proceedings after they apologised for their statements on the Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman’s punishment