A High Court bench today refused to hold hearings on two separate bail petitions of four Supreme Court lawyers including Nahid Sultana Juthi, wife of Juba League Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash, in a case filed over the violence centring the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election

The law ministry is likely to decide tomorrow whether BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be allowed to go abroad for treatment

Jahangirnagar University (JU) Proctor ASM Firoz Ul Hasan, also associate professor of government and politics department, today resigned from his post amid widespread protests

A Dhaka court today denied bail to pro-BNP lawyer Ruhul Quddus Kazal in connection with a case filed over the violence during Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election on March 8

The High Court today scrapped the Labour Appellate Tribunal’s order which stayed conviction and sentences of Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and three other top officials of Grameen Telecom in a labour law violation case

A Cumilla court today placed Jagannath University student Raihan Siddique Amman and Assistant Proctor Din Islam on two-day and one-day remand respectively in the case filed over instigating the death by suicide of law student Fairuz Abantika

Four suspected robbers were killed and another was injured in a mob beating in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj early today, police said

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company has disconnected over 11,300 illegal household and other connections in three days in Munshiganj district.

Six days have passed since the hijacking of the Bangladesh-flagged cargo ship MV Abdullah, yet no contact has been made by the suspected Somali pirates till yesterday.

The authority or owning firm of the ship, which has been hijacked by Somali pirates, needs to exercise caution while making comments to the media, said a former captain of a vessel who went through the same ordeal.

Police yesterday arrested two men on charges of stabbing a 25-year-old man to death and assaulting another in the capital’s Pallabi on Saturday night.

A teacher at Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) has remained suspended for around 10 months for the “crime” of speaking out against the university authorities regarding irregularities in teachers’ appointments.

Police have found evidence of partial involvement of Jagannath University student Raihan Siddique Amman and Assistant Proctor Din Islam in instigating the suicide of law student Fairuz Sadaf Abontika.

Rab members allegedly picked up two sepoys of Railway Nirapatta Bahini (RNB) from Natore Railway Station on Saturday and tortured them for checking the ticket of a Rab member travelling in a train in plainclothes.

A man was hacked to death and another was injured in a clash in Dhaka’s Mirpur area on Saturday.

The NSI yesterday detained a passenger with 451 grams of gold, including 235 grams of gold powder, at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram.

Residents of Kuakata Municipality in Patuakhali district have expressed concerns over construction of a new structure that they allege is encroaching on a vital canal. The structure, a large tin-shed house, is reportedly being built by an individual named Ali Haider on a newly-constructed box-culvert at Kuakata canal, potentially restricting water flow.

Police today arrested two people over the killing of a man in Mirpur's Pallabi yesterday

Two schoolboys were injured in an attack by a juvenile gang in Savar tonight

After recovering the body of a 22-year-old man on March 13 from Pabna's Soyghoria village, police today said he was murdered by his close friend over money-related issues