The High Court issued a Rule Nisi today, calling upon the government to show cause as to why laws that allow for marital rape of women and girls aged above 13 should not be declared void and discriminatory.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today approved four development projects, including a Tk 199 crore one to set up a dried fish-processing industry in Cox’s Bazar to produce quality dried fish and increase its production, minimising fish wastage.

The expert committee formed by UGC -- to check whether the software developed for taking the admission tests of public universities -- today said that it will not be wise to conduct the admission tests online, using the software.

Five passengers of an ambulance were killed and another injured in a head-on collision with a truck on the Kushtia-Khulna highway in Sadar upazila of Kushtia this afternoon.

The head of Lalmonirhat district administration’s three-member probe committee today said they too did not find any instance of Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel, who was beaten to death by a mob, demeaning the Holy Quran.

In the last 24-hours, seventeen people have died from Covid-19 in the country and 1,659 new infections were recorded in the meantime, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A Grameen Bank official was burnt to death in a fire caused by a gas leak at a house in Rangamati last night.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against five engineers of Power Division and a businessman on charges of misappropriating around Tk 2.6 crore.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has asked BIWTA additional chief engineer Mohammad Saidur Rahman and three others to submit their wealth statements.

Six more have been arrested in connection with the brutal killing of Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel in Lalmonirhat.

Police recovered the body of a college boy from Madhupur forest area yesterday.

Malta is gradually winning hearts of farmers in Rangamati as a growing number of them are seeing continuing profits from the fruit, which was introduced to them only several years ago.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has said that the indescribable torture of Chattogram-based journalist Golam Sarwar was a bid to threaten independent journalism.

Photos of Buraburi Union Parishad chairman Abu Taleb Sarkar marrying a ninth-grader went viral on social media resulting in much discussion and criticism among locals. He married the girl, a class-nine student of Bakshiganj High School, in Kurigram’s Ulipur upazila on November 1, reports our Lalmonirhat correspondent.

Abdul Kalam Azad brought the bodies of his newborn twins to the High Court premises today seeking justice for their death after failing to get treatment at three different hospitals.

The University Grants Commission has allowed private university students who are in their final semester to attend practical classes and examinations in person.

A human chain was formed today in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram demanding justice for Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel, who was lynched and set on fire in Burimari in the upazila on Thursday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today directed the authorities concerned to strictly implement the "no mask no service" policy at every government and private offices in the wake of the second wave of Covid-19 in many countries in Europe and in America.

In the last two years at least 63 migrants, of them 58 female workers, returned to the country in a “mentally ill” state, according to Brac Migration Programme.

Police Headquarters (PHQ) today asked the country inhabitants for not to pay heed in any propaganda, lies and rumors and suggested to verify the truth by calling on national emergency number 999.