They said any attempt to decentralise the High Court Division would weaken the judiciary

The arrestee is Mirza Alison Azam, 45, a resident of Momin Khan Hat area under Char Madhabdia union of Sadar upazila

Shamim Ahmad, former chief of correspondents of UNB, passed away at a hospital in the capital yesterday morning.

The body of a nine-year-old girl was found on the second floor of a mosque in Brahmanbaria’s Sarail upazila on Sunday morning.

Police yesterday used water cannons and fired sound grenades to disperse dismissed members of Bangladesh Rifles, now Border Guard Bangladesh, and their family members after they blocked the road in front of Kakrail Mosque.

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday stressed the need to present the true history of the Liberation War impartially through the activities of the Ministry of Liberation War.

For the second consecutive day, the Bangla Blockade grips the capital, with thousands of students and jobseekers bringing traffic to a standstill at key intersections across Dhaka.

Bangladesh expects a tariff rate of 20 percent or less in high-stakes trade talks with the US, after Washington fixed the same rate for Vietnam, a close competitor in global garment trade, officials familiar with the negotiations said.

Leading foreign investors in Bangladesh’s telecommunications sector have urged the government to reconsider proposed restrictions on foreign ownership in the upcoming Telecommunications Network and Licensing Reform Policy 2025.

Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, the chief adviser’s special assistant for Posts, Telecommunications and ICT, yesterday said neither he nor any current officials overseeing the ministry are involved in any form of corruption.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday replaced Mujibul Haque Chunnu with Shameem Haider Patwary as secretary general.

Political parties agreed to have lower courts at the upazila level and changes to conditions for declaring a state of emergency.

Terming the country’s human rights situation in the first half of 2025 “disappointing”, rights group Human Rights Support Society said the interim government has largely failed to meet the public’s hopes for “genuine freedom” following last year’s uprising.

Police yesterday said they were trying to identify and arrest the killers of a local Jubo Dal leader who was shot dead in broad daylight a day earlier in Kadalpur Union of Chattogram’s Raozan upazila.

The Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday said a level playing field for the next general election is still absent, and the party will not accept polls in such a situation.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday warned against delaying the upcoming election, saying the fight for democracy is far from over.

The state-appointed defence counsel for ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday pleaded to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 to discharge his clients, saying that they are innocent and the charges brought against them are politically motivated.

National Citizen Party does not want to delay election, but those who want to delay reforms are delaying the polls, said its Convener Nahid Islam.

Leaders of the Jatiya Press Club yesterday said incidents of threats to the media and the trend of filing cases against media workers on charges of attempted murder go against the spirit of the July uprising.

The 35-kilometre regional road connecting Barguna’s two remote upazilas -- Amatali and Taltali -- has fallen into severe disrepair due to a lack of maintenance, causing immense suffering to thousands of commuters every day.