High Court (HC) has stayed bail of three accused in a case filed for forgery over the design of 23-storey FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani.

Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen AKM Mostafa Kamal Pasha submits a report to the High Court saying that there are only 10 physicians for the total 68 prisons across the country while 131 posts of doctors are now lying vacant.

The ninth edition of Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF), an internationally recognised literary festival, will be held at Bangla Academy in the capital from November 7 to 9.

The HC refuses to grant bail to two accused including a minor in sensational Rifat Sharif murder case in Barguna.

Forest Department officials detain 60 suspected deer poachers while entering the Sundarbans with hunting equipment in three trawlers in Joymoni area of Chandpai Range.

Rejecting authorities’ announcement of closing Jahangirnagar University for an indefinite period, the protesting students of the university take a fresh vow to carry out their movement until Vice Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam resigns.

A dengue patient died at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH).

Three members of a family, including an elderly woman, died from electrocution in Barguna’s Patharghata upazila yesterday.

Two people, including a housewife, were found dead in different upazilas of the district on Sunday and the day before.

An elderly woman was killed by rivals over a dispute land at Uttar Rauha village in Saturia upazila of the district on Sunday.

A court here yesterday fixed December 23 for the next hearing on no-confidence petition against the charge sheet in connection with the killing of Santal men and torching and looting of Santal houses during an eviction drive at Shahebganj cane farm in Gobindaganj upazila in 2016.

The second wife of deceased freedom fighter Ismail Hossain at a press conference yesterday claimed that he was deprived of state honour after death due to a letter falsely attributed to him.

Two ruling party men cut earth illegally from the Shibbaria river with excavators, leaving the flood control dyke and a number of riverside croplands and dwelling houses in Kalapara upazila under threat of erosion.

After a bout of loss over Boro paddy, farmers in two northers districts are now counting losses with Aman too as existing market price of the early varieties are not even close to what they spent during production.

The High Court directs Chevron Bangladesh, the US oil and gas company, to give Tk 620 crore due to its employees.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has criticised Centre Policy Dialogue (CPD) for its remarks that the ratio of private investment to GDP has been hovering around 23 per cent for the last few years.

An inspector of Digital Forensic Department of Police Bureau of Investigation tells a Dhaka tribunal that suspended Sonagazi OC Moazzem Hossain filmed Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s statement on his own mobile at his office.

The government will extend all-out cooperation in bringing back the body of valiant freedom fighter Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who passed away in New York today.

A section of students confines Jahangirnagar University Vice Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam at her residence demanding her resignation for corruption and irregularities in development projects.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the government is providing all the necessary support to bring back home the body of Sadeque Hossain Khoka from the USA.