A Magura court yesterday started hearing testimonies of the witnesses in a case filed over the rape and murder of a child in Magura.

Gono Forum President Emeritus Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday urged all to remain alert so that no evil forces or conspiracies can create obstacles to rebuilding Bangladesh as dreamt of in the Liberation War.

He made the comments while holding meetings with the senior leaders of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi and Cardinal Jacob Koovakad, shortly after the funeral mass of Pope Francis in Rome

The victims have been admitted to the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka for treatment

The Bogura Municipality is on track to become Bangladesh’s 13th city corporation.

Family, lighterage workers suspect foul play

Over 300 health workers under a government project staged a sit-in yesterday at the Directorate General of Health Services in Mohakhali, demanding payment of their arrears and confirmation of their jobs.

The High Court yesterday issued a set of directives in order to save Mogra river in Netrokona from encroachment and pollution.

Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 407 others have been sued over the killing of BNP activist Mahfuz Alam Shraban in the capital’s Mirpur during the mass uprising last year.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday acquitted five leaders of the BNP and its front organisations, including Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, in a case filed under the Special Powers Act over a leaked phone conversation during the 2018 student protests for road safety.

Lamia, a 18-year-old girl and the eldest daughter of a July martyr, vowed to rebuild her family’s life for her grieving mother. Following the death of her father, she would often say, “We will stand again, Ma. I will take care of everything.”

The situation worsened after the launch of "Operation Devil Hunt" in early February

The Public Service Commission (PSC) yesterday decided to postpone the 46th BCS written examinations following discussions with protesting jobseekers.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed two separate cases against four engineers and two contractors of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) on charges of corruption and embezzlement in the construction of two separate road development projects in Tangail's Nagarpur upazila

The HC bench of Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque and Justice Aynun Nahar Siddiqua issued the rule after hearing a writ petition

An SSC examinee was run over by a truck in Uttara yesterday, shortly after he came out of the examination centre.

Sylhet’s Osmani International Airport sent off its first-ever cargo flight to Spain last night, becoming the second airport in the country, after Dhaka, to currently offer freighter services.

The Election Commission has issued an amended gazette notification declaring BNP-nominated candidate Mohammad Ishraque Hossain as the mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation.

Three years after the seven-murder incident in Narayanganj, a lower court sentenced 26 people, including a former city councillor and three former Rab officials, to death. The following year, the High Court upheld the death penalty for 15 of them and commuted the sentences for the rest.

BNP senior leader Amir Khasru yesterday urged the interim government to promptly unveil an election roadmap to reassure people that the country is moving towards elections and the restoration of democracy.