SC upholds death sentence of RU professor

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday published a 68-page verdict upholding the death sentence of a Rajshahi University (RU) professor and another person for killing Dr S Taher Ahmed, a fellow faculty member, in 2006. The verdict has been published after being signed by Chief Justice Hasan

Four to walk the gallows for murder in Khulna

A Khulna court on Thursday sentenced four people to death and five others to life term imprisonment for killing a businessman in 2010. The condemned convicts are Farid Mollah, Misbah Mollah, Mortaza Mollah and Tutul Mollah of Ketenga village in Terokhada upazila. The lifers are Mukta Mollah, Shahidul Shikdar, Selim Shikdar,