Poor investigation by police, too many adjournments at courts, witness no show, poor performance by prosecutors are among leading causes for case backlogs, a study has found.

More than three tigers were poached in Bangladesh every year over the last four years, according to a report published by TRAFFIC, a UK-based international non-profit working on trade in wildlife and plants.

The Human Rights Forum Bangladesh yesterday called upon the government to make a time-bound action plan for implementing the recent recommendations of the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) for Bangladesh.

Russia yesterday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station.

Janmashtami, also known simply as Janmashtami or Gokulashtami, the annual festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna, will be celebrated across the country today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the induction of the third Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner into the Biman fleet would enhance its capacity to operate flights to new destinations.

A Texas man convicted of raping and strangling a 19-year-old college student was executed by lethal injection Wednesday, the fourth in the state so far this year.

Notifications for the “War Room” WhatsApp group ping relentlessly as an organiser of Hong Kong’s biggest political rallies in decades explains the challenge of keeping an exhausted, battle-weary protest movement on the streets.

A Netrokona court yesterday sent a man to jail on charge of raping a four-year-old girl in the district’s Atpara upazila on Monday. Mohammad Ali Hossain, officer-in-charge of Atpara Police Station, said the victim’s father filed a case against the accused -- Miz

The High Court yesterday asked the government to take necessary steps for immediate removal of existing ambiguity, contradiction and inconsistency in the Children Act 2013.

Palaniappan Chidambaram, a former finance minister of India and also a senior Congress leader, was arrested last night in New Delhi by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with INX media case of alleged money laundering, officials said.

Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday accused non-governmental organizations of setting wildfires in the Amazon rainforest to damage his government’s image after he cut their funding.

Police yesterday arrested a man for allegedly raping a fifth grader in Mymensingh, while another was sued for attempted rape in Jashore. The arrestee is Zilhaj Mia alias Dilu, 30, of Gafargaon upazila in Mymensingh.

A ward councillor in Khagrachhari filed a case against a reporter of The Daily Star on Tuesday for using the word indigenous in a report.

Zimbabwean police outlawed anti-government protests that had been scheduled to take place on Tuesday in Gweru, the country’s third largest city, the main opposition MDC said.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats display “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” sparking accusations that he is promoting and politicizing anti-Semitism.

An employee of Britain’s consulate in Hong Kong who went missing earlier this month is being held in China, Beijing confirmed yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested a man for allegedly raping a fifth grader in Mymensingh, while another was sued for attempted rape in Jashore.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Saiful Islam, former officer-in-charge of Goalanda Police Station, to fourteen years’ rigorous imprisonment in two graft cases.

A suspected militant and a policeman were killed in the first gun battle since New Delhi stripped Indian Kashmir of its autonomy, police said yesterday after US President Donald Trump offered to mediate the “explosive” situation.