As his name was called out, Ahad Ali stepped inside the courtroom and stood in the dock with both hands pressed together in a gesture of mercy, staring at the judge with pleading eyes.

The Supreme Court has prohibited all courts from directing the government to absorb contractual employees or officers of projects as permanent employees unless there is a statutory provision to this effect.

Two ruling Awami League men were shot allegedly by Liberal Democratic Party’s General Secretary Redwan Ahmed in Cumilla’s Chandina upazila yesterday.

The draft data protection act empowers certain government actors with unbridled power to control the personal data of citizens, said TIB.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought support from the Asian Development Bank to implement Delta Plan 2100.

After 10 long years, a third airlines -- Saudi Arabian budget carrier Flynas -- has been granted permission to transport Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims to and from the kingdom.

The Supreme Court’s chamber judge yesterday stayed a High Court order that granted bail to Monir Hossain, known as Golden Monir, in a money laundering case.

A man was killed after being caught in a dispute over land between two stepbrothers in Tangail’s Nagarpur upazila yesterday.

Edible oil prices see the biggest increase in Bangladesh’s history as the government moves to put an end to the unprecedented crunch of the essential cooking item.

A woman says her family cannot trace her husband after law enforcers in plainclothes picked him up from their home in the capital’s Shewrapara on April 19.

Indonesia is prepared to widen its ban on exports of refined palm olein if it faces domestic shortages of derivatives used in the production of cooking oil, according to details presented at a meeting between government and industry officials.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday sought to unite a deeply divided nation after winning re-election in a battle against rival Marine Le Pen that saw the far right come its closest yet to taking power.

Unbridled white clay extraction in Dhobaura upazila of Mymensingh district has put the ethnic community in danger as it devoured their homestead and way of livelihood, said the civil society platform Nagorik Uddog.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday said the government would start administering oral cholera vaccines in the capital from next month.

Today is the 24th death anniversary of Shazneen Tasnim Rahman.

The Bangladesh cricket community was shocked by the demise of two former national cricketers yesterday. In the morning, news broke about Samiur Rahman Sami’s before Mosharraf Hossain Rubel’s passing in the afternoon.

The Krishibid Institute of Bangladesh in the capital’s Farmgate was decked out in a riot of colours from February 28-March 2, when the

A youth has been arrested in Bagerhat for “hurting religious sentiment” hours after an unruly mob destroyed his house and vandalised a nearby Hindu temple.

The BNP has demanded that the Anti-Corruption Commission probe a leaked conversation allegedly between the law minister and an adviser to the prime minister over a government project.

The government’s move to ensure uninterrupted traffic movement on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway is facing a setback as bus operators are not using the designated bus bays and service lanes built under a Tk 696 crore project.