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.

The incident took place yesterday

The case was filed against Hanif on April 4, 2021

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

He also said, "This generation promises a new democratic constitution for Bangladesh."

A man, who was abducted by a group of kidnappers and robbers, was rescued during a joint forces operation in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar last night.

A group of five to six armed assailants carried out the attack

The incident took place last night in Konarpara area of Ward no. 9 under Jaliapalong union

The four were involved in illegally extracting sand from the Padma river

The incident took place yesterday evening

Police this morning recovered the body of a nine-year-old girl from the second floor of a mosque in Brahmanbaria's Sarail upazila

12 arrested so far

While Road 103 in the capital’s Gulshan -- a designated residential area -- already struggles under tremendous traffic pressure, the establishment of a new shopping mall has further strained the situation.

Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman yesterday said mob justice, in any form, is unacceptable and goes against the spirit of the July uprising.

Law enforcers yesterday arrested eight persons in a case filed over the brutal murder of three members of a family in Cumilla’s Muradnagar.

A 28-year-old woman was raped while her one-and-a-half-year-old son was held at knifepoint in Panchagarh Sadar upazila on Friday night, according to a case filed yesterday.

A case was filed with Kotwali Police Station early yesterday, accusing 16 BNP activists and 25-30 unidentified persons of storming Ha-Meem Group Managing Director AK Azad’s residence in Faridpur town’s Jheeltuli on Thursday.

Bangladesh has formally requested the identities of the 36 Bangladeshis arrested by Malaysian authorities for their alleged involvement in a radical militant movement, said the foreign ministry yesterday.

A woman who was gang-raped along with her minor daughter in Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila last year said she has been receiving continuous death threats from the accused in the case she filed.

A local leader of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal was killed yesterday in a clash between two rival factions vying for dominance in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar upazila.