Student organisations reject verdict, calling it inadequate

Speaker says he would review the rules of procedure

LGRD minister says government committed to media independence, warns of efforts to destabilise law and order

Says incident should not affect future bilateral relations

Prof Jamalunnessa to replace Sheikh Mohiuddin; foundation says it is undertaking major reforms

Bangladesh’s much-discussed former inspector general of police, Benazir Ahmed, has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates.

Protesters call for justice, communal harmony and completion project

Vehicular movement on both sides of Tejgaon Love Road remains suspended

Members of the NSI yesterday seized around 3,00,000 fish fry in 13 plastic drums while allegedly being trafficked illegally from Barishal.

The government plans to form an independent media commission with quasi-judicial authority, similar to the UK’s Ofcom or the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), by uniting all mass media outlets.

Police arrested one person early yesterday over the murder of a woman and her daughter in Poraikora union under Anwara upazila of Chattogram.

The government will resume the nationwide Vitamin A plus campaign after a suspension of more than a year, a gap experts say may have worsened the measles outbreak.

The High Court yesterday sought a report from the prison authorities on the number and age profile of children living in prisons with their incarcerated mothers across the country.

The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has taken back at least 24 people who had been stranded in no-man’s-land along borders in three districts.

Police have identified five persons in the murder of Jubo Dal leader Masudul Haque Masud, who was shot dead in broad daylight at a market in Raozan upazila on Saturday.

What immediately catches a visitor’s eye in Shariatpur’s Nalta village is colourful, multi-storey buildings standing out against the rural surroundings.

Residents have been facing severe commuting problems since a 100-foot section of a busy road in Chattogram city collapsed into an adjacent canal on Saturday night.

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday called for immediate reforms in policing and freeing the police from political patronage.

The 11-party alliance led by Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded “visible and strict” action from the government to stop illegal push-ins, border killings, and torture along the Bangladesh-India border.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday set June 28 for delivering its verdict against five former police officers in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of two people and the shooting of two others in Rampura during the July 2024 uprising.