Five former army men were hanged at Dhaka Central Jail soon after midnight past Wednesday for killing the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and all but two members of his family on August 15, 1975. They were hanged after the special Appellate Division Wednesday morning dismissed their petitions for a review of its verdict, clearing the way for the execution of their death sentences.
   

The government has declared the northwestern Rangpur region as a new administrative division comprising eight districts.

The decision came from a Cabinet Division meeting of the National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reforms (NICAR), chaired by prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday, Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad told reporters in the Secretariat.

Prices of essentials and energy crisis remains in the spot of bother. Bangladesh government to some extent failed to crash market syndicate. The middle men in between growers, genuine traders and consumers off and on create artificial crisis causing sufferings of the people. Government needs to further smarten its market intelligence.

The 38th anniversary of the Bangladesh ’s glorious victory over the Pakistani occupation forces will be celebrated today (Wednesday) with a fresh zeal and a louder cry for bringing the war criminals to book. On the great occasion of glee blended with gory memories of the war, people imbued with the spirit of the Liberation War 1971 will pay homage to the three million martyrs for their supreme sacrifice for the long-cherished independence of the country. On this day in 1971, Bangladesh under the leadership of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman achieved its final victory over the occupation forces.