The report over the death of Hefajat-e-Islam’s former chief Shah Ahmad Shafi will be submitted on time as per the court directive, said Iqbal Hossen, Special Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).

Police arrested a man last night on charges of raping a class five student at her home in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat.

Noted journalist Mizanur Rahman Khan, also Joint Editor of Prothom Alo and among the few journalists in the country who became known for his expertise on writing on judicial matters, was laid to rest today at the Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in the city’s Mirpur.

Three persons drowned as a stone-carrying truck fell into a stream (chhora) after a bailey bridge collapsed in Rangamati Sadar upazila this morning.

A bailey bridge on Kalihati-Dhalapara-Barachaona road in Nondakuri area under Birbasinda union in Kalihati upazila has remained badly damaged for long, causing untold sufferings to its users as well as hampering the movement of traffic.

A teenage boy was killed in Bhaluka upazila early yesterday.

A Patuakhali court yesterday sent a man to jail after police produced him before it in connection with a case for trying to rape his daughter-in-law in Kalapara upazila on Sunday.

Unidentified criminals stabbed a young man to death in front of Chinishpur union parishad in Narsingdi Sadar upazila early yesterday.

Like everywhere else in the country, the hand wash basins, set up in Pirojpur town when the first wave of Covid-19 struck the country last year, are lying in neglect.

A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League men confined Rajshahi University Vice-chancellor Prof M Abdus Sobhan, two pro vice-chancellors and the proctor at the VC’s residence in the university campus tonight, demanding jobs at the university.

As conversations rage on about a recently-released High Court verdict which banned women from being Muslim marriage registrars, it is imperative to remember that it was a woman -- a marriage registrar candidate -- who had challenged the patriarchy.

Twenty-one eminent citizens of the country have expressed their disappointment over the High Court’s verdict that said women cannot become Nikah (Muslim marriage) registrars due to certain "physical conditions" and social as well as practical situations of the country.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed has said parents have to take the responsibility of monitoring their children to ensure their wellbeing.

UNDP, in partnership with the National Human Rights Commission, has launched Low-Value Grants (LVG) to foster small-scale innovative actions to address human rights issues during and after the Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh, engaging civil society organisations and community radios.

A court in Khulna today sentenced a land official to three years in prison in a case filed for embezzling Tk 99,056 of land development tax without depositing it to the government treasury.

Mizanur Rahman Khan, joint editor of Prothom Alo, passed away this evening.

A legal notice was served on the government today requesting it to reopen all the educational institutions including schools and colleges across the country from January 16.

The High Court today wanted to know what steps have been taken to ensure adequate fire safety measures in all the 68 prisons throughout the country and to save the lives of prisoners from fire related accidents.

A Dhaka court will decide on February 8 whether it will accept the probe report submitted by police clearing Mohammad Erfan Salim, son of Awami League lawmaker Haji Md Salim, from an arms case.

The first shipment of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is likely to reach Bangladesh between January 21 and 25.