Testimony in the crimes against humanity case filed over disappearances and torture at the Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC) against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 13 others has been deferred by a day. The tribunal set a new date for testimony on Wednesday, August 12, as a witness was ill.
A delegation from the American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh (AmCham) has paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.
The High Court has granted bail to former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque in an attempted murder case filed with Banani Police Station in Dhaka. Following the bail in this case, there is no longer any legal bar to his release, lawyers said.
Parag Jain, chief of India's external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has arrived in Dhaka. His visit, leading a four-member high-level delegation amid efforts to normalise Bangladesh-India relations, is being seen as significant by diplomatic and security analysts.
The High Court has granted eight weeks of anticipatory bail to Gazi Nazrul Islam, the expelled Jamaat-e-Islami leader and MP from Satkhira-4, in an attempted murder case filed with Pallabi Police Station in the capital.
A court has rejected the bail applications of six individuals, including Notundhara Bangladesh Chairman Momin Mehedi and Senior Vice Chairman Shanta Farzana, in an anti-terrorism case filed with Shahbagh Police Station in the capital.