A lawyer turned in his own clients when they brought a forged bail order before him.

Venezuela braced for new protests yesterday after a controversial election for an assembly to rewrite the constitution unleashed a wave of unrest that left 10 people dead.

The rapist strangled four-year-old Tanha Akter as he failed to stop her screaming and saw her bleeding.

Moscow yesterday sought to justify its decision to purge US diplomatic personnel in the country, as the Kremlin appeared to give up on hopes of improving ties anytime soon under Donald Trump.

A court in Cox's Bazar has sent former deputy commissioner and additional deputy commissioner of the district to jail in a case filed over misappropriating Tk 23 crore from Matarbari coal-based power plant project in Maheshkhali.

Four men accused of plotting to bring down a plane planned to use poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer, reports said yesterday, with Australian officials calling preparations "advanced".

Students of Satkhira Govt Children's Family on Sunday beat up four officials and employees over allegations of sexual abuses, providing inadequate food and physical torture.

Students of Brac University yesterday took to the streets to protest assault on a teacher of the law department allegedly by the registrar of the private university.

Model and actress Risila Binte Wazer allegedly committed suicide keeping her husband on a video call at her residence in the capital's Badda yesterday.

Unidentified criminals shot dead the son of a former BNP lawmaker in Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur last night.

Former Bangladesh cricket team captain Khaled Mahmud Sujon, who is currently a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) director, suffered a stroke and is in the Intensive Care Unit of United Hospital, BCB media committee chairman Jalal Yunus said yesterday.

Stating that Bangladesh believes in maintaining good relations with neighbouring countries, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that while there may be disputes among neighbours, those need to be resolved through discussions.

A first-year student of philosophy at Chapainawabganj Government College, Farida Khatun believes that in Bangladeshi culture, females are too readily thought of as representatives of the moral values held by their family. “If I do anything contrary to social norms,” says the

The ruling Awami League yesterday decided to issue a show-cause notice upon lawmaker Enamur Rahman of Dhaka-19 for his recent remarks on “crossfire”.

Prosecutions over human trafficking related cases in the country have been reducing each year and came down alarmingly last year mainly because of faulty case filings, inappropriate victim identification and lack of allegations raised by victims.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday cancelled another hajj flight thanks to failure of private hajj tour operators for not confirming visas and air tickets of the pilgrims.

An alleged robber was killed in a "gunfight" with the Rapid Action Battalion at Arbania in the Sundarbans yesterday morning.

Australia has foiled an Islamist-inspired terrorist plot to bring down an aircraft with an improvised explosive device, authorities said yesterday, after four people were arrested in raids across Sydney.

Diaz Irfan Chowdhury, assistant secretary of Chhatra League central committee, whose body was found hanging in his house near Chittagong University on November 20 last year, was "strangled to death".

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has come to the aid of the family of Jharna Rani, who was killed in a militant attack at Sholakia in Kishoreganj last year, by giving her son a job in a private bank.