The Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that granted bail to daily Sangram Editor Abul Asad in a case filed under Digital Security Act.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today told animal rights activists that he is willing to work towards an integrated, realistic and long-term solution for stray dog population management in the city.

Hathazari upazila administration of Chattogram seized 1,000 meters of illegal fishing net and destroyed four mechanised boats for illegally lifting sand from Halda river today.

The first consignment of 58 tonnes of Myanmar onions were unloaded at the port on Monday night after Chattogram Seaport Plant Quarantine Center issued the clearance.

Violence against “indigenous” women keeps increasing due to culture of impunity in the country, speakers said at a human chain programme in the capital today.

A Dhaka court today summarily dismissed the lawsuit filed against Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote president and former state minister for post and telecommunications Tarana Halim and four others for “negatively portraying” Bangladesh Nationalist Party founder and late president Ziaur Rahman in a drama titled “Indemnity”.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members today claimed to have arrested 10 members of a fraud gang for allegedly swindling a large sum of money from people in the name of providing government jobs.

Flooding in Gaibandha and Bogura is deteriorating as water levels of both Karatoa and Bangali rivers has been rising for the last seven days.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today approved four projects involving Tk 796 crore, including a Tk 338 crore to make mouza and plot-based national digital land zoning.

The High Court today questioned a lower court order that granted bail to AKM Shamim and Gazi Salahuddin, two co-accused in a Tk 4 crore money laundering case against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

The 6th Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting began this afternoon with a special focus on water sharing, projects under India-financed LoC, connectivity, trade and energy cooperation, officials said.

A woman was raped while she was searching for her missing husband and sister in Siddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj yesterday, police said.

Twenty-six people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The verdict of Rifat Sharif murder case will be delivered tomorrow.

The High Court will deliver its verdict tomorrow on the suo moto (voluntary) rule issued by this court over compensating Jaha Alam who suffered in jail for three years instead of the real accused in several corruption cases.

A team of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd Chairman Md Abdur Razzak in a case filed on charges of supplying fake N95 masks to the Central Medical Store Depot (CMSD), the government body that sources medical supplies.

A total of 892 incidents of rape happened in Bangladesh in the last eight months since January, a report has said.

An accused of a murder case was allegedly killed in the custody of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) at Bagerhat, his family has claimed.

Kuwait police have arrested a Bangladeshi expat for taking bribe from people in exchange of illegally allowing them to renew car licence with the ministry of interior of the country.

A Bangladeshi man shot himself after killing his wife in Phoenix City under Arizona of USA on Sunday night, according to a US-based news portal The Weekly Bangladesh.