The Supreme Court chamber judge yesterday granted protection for 72 hours to Transcom Group’s Chairman Shahnaz Rahman and two other high-ups upon their return home from abroad and until their surrender before a lower court in connection with the cases filed over property disputes.

Members of a “teen gang” entered a house and stabbed a woman in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur on Wednesday night.   

A Tangail court yesterday sent a union parishad chairman to prison on charges of beating up a woman over a “trifling matter”.

Negotiations with the pirates who hijacked Bangladeshi bulk carrier MV Abdullah were yet to start, said the ship’s owning firm.

The Traffic Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police today, in an attempt to prevent traffic congestion, said no traders will be allowed to conduct business on roads during Ramadan

An old prisoner, sentenced to life-term imprisonment in a robbery case, died in Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur today

A birth registration certificate has been found on the national server in the name of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, issued from Ahmedpur union parishad in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna

The High Court today ordered the government to probe the renting of 7,580sqft space for only Tk 1,000 per month to run a staff canteen at Uttara Depot of MRT Line-6

A court in Tangail today sent a local union parishad (UP) chairman to jail on charges of beating up a female neighbour over a trifling matter

Bangladesh authorities must immediately drop all charges against journalist Shofiuzzaman Rana and investigate the harassment of five journalists in Lalmonirhat, the Committee to Protect Journalists said yesterday

Water seeped through the ceiling of the Supreme Court building and fell on the judges' seats this morning, disrupting judicial proceedings of the Appellate Division for around 20 minutes

Nine days after the hijacking of Bangladeshi bulk career MV Abdullah, pirates yesterday made first contact with the ship’s owning firm KSRM Group through a third party.

A Jagannath University student yesterday appealed to the president to ensure exemplary punishment to the teachers and their accomplices who allegedly sexually harassed her, threatened her and then failed her in an exam for filing a complaint in this regard.

Jagannath University’s suspended student Raihan Siddique Amman was sent to jail yesterday by a Cumilla court after his two-day remand in a case filed over the instigation of law student Fairuz Sadaf Abontika’s suicide.

A Barguna court today placed seven accused, who are journalists, on remand for different periods in connection with a case filed over the murder of another journalist Talukdar Masood in Barguna

The Supreme Court today issued status quo on cancelation of 169 first graders’ admissions into Viqarunnisa Noon School and College and on fresh admission in the seats, which felt vacant after cancellation of their admissions, for two months

A mobile court today sentenced and fined 39 brokers for scamming patients at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH)

The husband of a woman who died at Ibn Sina Medical College Hospital in the capital’s Kalyanpur following two surgeries, including a C-section, alleged today that her death was due to medical negligence

A Dhaka court today accepted the charges brought against Abzal Hossain, a suspended accountant of the medical education department under Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), and his wife Rubina Khanam in two money laundering cases. .Judge Mohammad Ash-Shams Joglul Hossain of Dhak

The High Court today questioned the legality of BTRC’s directive on mobile companies to create a separate database with information contained in subscribers' National Identity (NID) cards