The High Court yesterday granted permanent bail to contractor Asif Hossain in a case filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

Almost a week has passed since the brutal murder of Swechchasebak League leader Masudur Rahman Shuvra. His wife, Tahrima Akter Chumki, is still in shock and cannot stop wailing for her late husband.

At least 37,170 people were killed and 82,758 injured in 26,902 road accidents in last five years since 2015, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit yesterday claimed to have arrested a close aide of a Bangladeshi expat in Saudi Arabia, Mustaq Mohammad Arman Khan, who had been spreading provocative messages on social media through misinterpreting religion.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against eight engineers of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and three others for misappropriating Tk 34.42 crore.

According to the National Mental Health Survey in Bangladesh (2018-19), some 17 percent of Bangladeshi adults are undergoing mental health problems.

The government has made the decision to reimburse a portion of the application fees that were collected for this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalents exams.

Incorporating general people’s understanding while setting definition of “victim” and “witness” in relevant law is essential to ensure their protections, former chairman of National Human Rights Commission Prof Mizanur Rahman said yesterday.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday convened the special session of parliament on November 8, marking Mujib Borsho.

A sub-inspector has been suspended for helping the then in-charge of Sylhet city’s Bandarbazar police outpost Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan flee after the death and alleged torture of Rayhan Ahmed while in police custody on October 11.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) today organised a virtual conference as part of preparation for a draft law on victims and witnesses’ protection.

Men in plainclothes allegedly picked up a leader of Bangladesh Juba Odhikar Parishad from the capital’s Roy Shaheb Bazar intersection area in a microbus this afternoon.

Four more prosecution witnesses, including a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate, today gave their depositions before a Dhaka tribunal in connection with the case filed over the rape of a DU student in Dhaka's Kurmitola earlier this year.

The High Court today refused to grant anticipatory bail to four accused in a case filed on charges of killing Supreme Court lawyer Asif Imtiaz Khan Jisad.

Anti-rape protesters today blocked Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka for two hours demanding implementation of their nine-point demand and protesting the attack on Dhaka to Noakhali anti-rape long-march on October 17.

A traffic sergeant was killed after a pick-up van hit his motorcycle in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area last night.

A Dhaka court yesterday took cognisance of charges against expelled Dhaka South Jubo League president Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in two cases filed under the arms and narcotics control acts.

Jagannath University (JnU) authorities yesterday unveiled its 16-storey Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall for female students.

Syed Rafiqul Islam, an accused in the murder case of local Swecchasebak League leader Shuvra, was temporarily suspended from his post of Awami League municipal unit president yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against suspended DIG Mizanur Rahman and three others in a graft case.