Early morning of May 30, 1981, clouds from the Bay of Bengal lashed Chittagong. Through the heavy pitter-patter of rain on the roof of the Circuit House of Chittagong, President Ziaur Rahman heard ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in the last corruption case against her, paving the way for her to run in elections ...

The move paves the way for Bangladesh’s former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia to run for prime minister (AP) Bangladesh’s supreme court has acquitted ...

The Supreme Court yesterday acquitted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son, BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, and four others of corruption charges in the Zia Orphanage Trust case. With the ...

The trial had sentenced Khaleda to five years' imprisonment and other accused, including BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, to 10 years' jail sentence in the graft case. The HC, in its verdict ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE- Bangladesh’s former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia ...

Thousands of BNP leaders and activists, led by its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, placed wreaths at Zia's Sher-e-Banglanagar grave around 11:15am They later offered fateha following a ...

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The verdict was delivered by a bench led by Chief Justice Dr Syed Refaat Ahmed after reviewing 79-year-old Zia’s appeal against the High Court’s ruling on Wednesday, the Dhaka Tribune reported.