The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday informed the tribunal that the investigation report on the killing of Abu Sayed, a student of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, during the July uprising, may be submitted within two weeks.

A delegation of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances yesterday began a four-day visit to Bangladesh.

Home Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday said law enforcement agencies are fully prepared to assist the Election Commission (EC) in holding the next general election, whenever it takes place.

A student drowned while bathing in the Ruposhi Jharna, a waterfall in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram, yesterday.

The recent meeting between Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus and BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, while instrumental in easing certain political tensions

At least 10 convicts in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case have so far filed 10 separate appeals with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court challenging the High Court verdict on them.

At least two persons were hacked to death in Pabna and Jashore yesterday and the day before, according to reports from our correspondents.

The Election Commission will understand the government’s stance on election timing after holding formal discussions with it, Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin said yesterday.

Women representatives should be elected through direct voting rather than relying on party nominations, as only direct electoral mandates can ensure meaningful empowerment, accountability, and connection with constituencies, said speakers at an event yesterday.

He was around 15 when he was picked up, a ninth grader.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Mehedi Hasan passed the order when police produced the accused before the court with a seven-day remand prayer, said Court Inspector Mossadek Hossain

At least 10 people were killed and several others injured in separate road crashes in Bogura, Madaripur, Nilphamari, Sirajganj, Sherpur, Narsingdi, Brahmanbaria, Faridpur, and Gopalganj yesterday.

A ninth-grade schoolgirl remains hospitalised for a week after she was allegedly raped by a middle-aged local man in Brahmanbaria’s Bijoynagar upazila.

More than 90 percent of all Covid-19 tests are now being conducted at private hospitals as many government hospitals remain unprepared to carry out the task amid a rising infection rate in Bangladesh and neighbouring nations.

The fallen Sheikh Hasina government abused the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009 the most to prosecute victims of enforced disappearance, found the commission investigating enforced disappearances.

A former union parishad chairman of Savar, who drew widespread attention during last year’s mass uprising for allegedly opening fire on protesters, was found hanging in his cell at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj yesterday, according to prison authorities.

Mostafa Mohsin Montu, a veteran politician, freedom fighter, passed away yesterday while undergoing treatment at a city hospital. He was 80.

Bad loans in Bangladesh’s banking sector hit a record Tk 420,335 crore at the end of March as a clearer picture of the toxic loan is coming to light following the political changeover in August last year.

Local residents of Rupospur village under Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar have stepped in to repair a vital rural road that has long been in a deplorable state, causing suffering to thousands of people.

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