A Dhaka court yesterday placed Tureen Afroz, former senior prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), on a four-day remand in an attempted murder case.

At least seven people, including a man and his son, were killed and 29 others injured when a bus veered of the road and plunged into a roadside ditch on the Dhaka-Barishal highway in Faridpur Sadar yesterday.

The BNP will meet Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus again and ask for a roadmap to the next election, according to the top leaders of the party.

Detective Branch of police arrested Bengal Group Chairman Morshed Alam in the capital last night.

Protest programmes were held across the country yesterday against the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza and in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Police have yet to launch an investigation even 15 days after a general diary was filed over three lemurs being stolen from Gazipur Safari Park.

At least three people were killed and four injured in separate road accidents in Brahmanbaria and Barguna districts yesterday.

Around 1.4 million people living in 435 low-income communities (LICs) across the 41 wards of Chattogram City Corporation lack access to proper water and sanitation facilities, researchers said at a programme yesterday.

Bangladesh is engaging with both the Myanmar government and the Arakan Army to ensure the safe and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya refugees to their homeland in Rakhine, officials said yesterday.

The upcoming national election is expected to be held in line with the July Charter, which will soon be published by the National Consensus Commission (NCC) based on input from political parties and public opinion, said the commission’s vice chairman Prof Ali Riaz yesterday.

A Jashore court sent a man to jail after he was arrested early today on charges of drugging and raping a girl in Jashore town

The victim is a person with physical disabilities who begs for a living

The accused Takbir Aman, 24, is the senior joint chief organiser of SAD's Narayanganj city unit

The incident took place yesterday night and this morning, in two phases

Police say it was for SSC exams

More than 300 forest officers and staff participated

This is the seventh such incident in this border area since January

NSTU holds human chain, rally; JnU to march towards US ; DU students to march with 70-foot Palestine flag

Chhatra Dal has organised demonstrations in DU, RU, and JU

A Dhaka court today issued a travel ban on former NBR Chairman Md Nazibur Rahman, his wife Nazma Rahman and their sons Fuad Rahman and Farabi Rahman in connection with corruption allegations brought against them.