The High Court in Malaysia has granted an interim order against the immigration department from deporting former Bangladeshi ambassador Mohammed Khairuzzaman to Dhaka.

The High Court yesterday questioned the rules of a customary law that deprives Hindu females or daughters of inheriting their deceased father’s properties.

On January 27, 1952, Khwaja Nazimuddin, addressing an open session of the Muslim League Council, said only Urdu would be the state language of Pakistan.

The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances at its recently concluded session scrutinised 17 cases from nine countries, including Bangladesh.

The Amar Ekushey Boi Mela begins today with preparations still unfinished till yesterday afternoon.

Two Dhaka University teachers have been relieved for three years from all examination activities of the Persian Language and Literature department due to irregularities in semester exam results.

Rapid Action Battalion last night arrested three members of a gang for trafficking women to Dubai with false promises of jobs and later sold them there, forcing them into indecent work.

Thirty days since the anti-VC protests by students at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) began, its Vice-Chancellor Professor Farid Uddin Ahmed participated in an official programme through celebrating the 31st founding anniversary of the university.

A Narail court today sentenced a woman to life term imprisonment for smuggling heroin in 2015.

At least 4,692 new infections were recorded and 19 people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The gas shortage is a result of negligence towards gas exploration and the reliance on imported LNG something to be wary of, experts told a discussion yesterday

A Rohingya leader commonly known as sub-majhi of a refugee camp was killed in an attack carried out by a group of Rohingya criminals at a camp in Cox’s Bazar today.

Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy today said she will compromise with the people of Narayanganj but not with extortionists.

The Bangladesh Bank today asked banks to submit the required data of inland letters of credit (LCs) to the online import monitoring system (OIMS) appropriately.

Some Dhaka city residents today demanded cancelation of Dhaka Wasa’s attempts to raise water tariff.

Despite criticism from environmentalists, amidst deaths of animals in Gazipur safari park, the government is moving forward with the project of third Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park at Lathitila forest in Juri, Moulvibazar.

The Search Committee will publish all the names that the political parties and individuals submitted to the Cabinet Division.

Stocks ended flat today and investors’ participation was also almost the same compared to the previous day as people have adopted a wait-and-see policy amid rising Covid-19 infections.

Since the government had committed to paying private entrepreneurs even for unproduced power, the Power Development Board is now incurring huge losses, economists and sector analysists said yesterday.

The medical college hostel was the de facto control room of the language movement from February 21-24, 1952. Gaziul Haque, Shahidullah Kaiser, Oli Ahad, Kazi Golam Mahbub joined several meetings at the hostel.