Hasina sentenced to five years in prison, Rehana to seven years, and Tulip to two years

DSHE warns of action over exam disruptions or non-compliance

Tourists will be allowed to stay overnight. Six ships were approved to operate, but only three sails today

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar yesterday expressed doubts over the fairness of the upcoming national election

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday pledged justice for members of the army, navy, and air force who were unfairly treated under the previous administration, alongside other deprived government officials and employees.

Syed Wasiful Islam has been appointed the new ameer of Tabligh Jamaat Bangladesh.

Fifteen parties meet as leaders push for a new ‘third force’

The government yesterday issued an ordinance to establish the long-desired Supreme Court secretariat with a view to ensuring full independence of the judiciary.

A special court is set to deliver a verdict today in the case filed over the Dhaka’s Purbachal plot scam against 17 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and niece British MP Tulip Siddiq.

Experts warn justice system ill-equipped to handle digital crimes

Three people were killed and at least nine others injured yesterday in a violent clash over a long-running land dispute in Kurigram’s Nageshwari upazila.

An independent commission has accused former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and several senior Awami League leaders of orchestrating the 2009 Pilkhana massacre.

Criminals shot two people dead in front of the gate of the Khulna Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court yesterday.

Hypertension is the most common disease in Bangladesh, with 78 out of every 1,000 people suffering from the non-communicable condition, according to a government survey.

Along the quiet banks of the Halda in Raozan upazila of Chattogram lies Aburkhil, home to the country’s largest Buddhist community and, in 1971, an undeclared liberated zone. In those months of fire and flight, the village became both haven and stronghold, gathering fleeing families, exhausted soldiers, and an unlikely frontline of care and defiance beneath its canopy of trees.

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman can return to Bangladesh anytime he wants, and the government can issue a one-time travel pass within a day, said Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain yesterday.

Over 1,400 nomination forms sold, but many aspirants skipped interviews

Politics has now become a space for business interests where holding public office almost guarantees the accumulation of wealth, said Badiul Alam Majumdar, secretary of Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik yesterday.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday began the trial of former minister and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal president Hasanul Haq Inu in a case accusing him of committing crimes against humanity during the July uprising.

Survey blames overfishing as pelagic species fall to one-fifth of previous levels