Mehedi Hasan was in Kuwait when Jatrabari police filed a case on July 30 over political violence in the area the day before.  Police named 99 people, mostly BNP leaders and activists, in the case, and Mehedi was not among them.

The phone number of Sirajum Munira, the elder sister of Khadijatul Kubra, a Jagannath University student who was in jail for over 14 months in DSA cases, flashed on the screen of this correspondent’s mobile.

The Supreme Court has summoned Inspector General of Prisons ASM Anisul Haque and Home Secretary (Security Service Division) Abdullah Al Masud Chowdhury for violating its directive to promote six prison officials to the posts of senior jail superintendent.

Authorities of Dhaka University yesterday suspended four students from academic activities, as they allegedly assaulted a private university student on November 8 at Suhrawardy Udyan.

Unidentified miscreants today blasted a crude bomb on the premises of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in Old Dhaka

A judge today walked out of a Dhaka courtroom following an altercation between the prosecution and defence

The High Court yesterday today stayed for six months a government decision that suspended Asaduzzaman Chowdhury from the post of acting managing director (MD) of Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL)

The Election Commission has asked the Ministry of Public Administration to take steps to appoint executive magistrates to enforce electoral code of conduct

A mob beat a 17-year-old to death suspecting him for stealing in Kazi Nuril village under Sadar upazila of Bogura last night

A Gazipur court today sent garment workers' union leader Babul Hossain to jail after a 24-hour remand

The Supreme Court administration has issued a notification prohibiting all from entering the court premises without necessity

The Supreme Court today summoned Inspector General of Prisons ASM Anisul Haque and Home Secretary (Security Service Division) Abdullah Al Masud Chowdhury for not promoting six prison officials violating its order

Picketers allegedly set fire to a goods-laden truck on the Dhaka-Rajshahi Highway under Bangabandhu Bridge West Zone in Sirajganj early today

Khadijatul Kubra says after walking out of jail on bail

Rapid Action Battalion detained two persons along with "a huge number of crude bombs and bomb making materials" from an abandoned house in Dhaka's Demra this evening

5 BNP members were sentenced to 10 years in prison today for their involvement in a 2013 bus arson attack

Arsonists posing as passengers torched another bus in Dhaka this evening

The Supreme Court today summoned Inspector General of Prisons AMM Anisul Haque and Home Secretary (Safety Division) Abdullah Al Masud Chowdhury on charge of violating its order for promoting six prison officials to the posts of senior jail superintendent.

A Dhaka court today sentenced 14 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations to 18 months' imprisonment in a case filed over assaulting policemen and preventing them from discharging their duties in Dhaka's New Market area in 2015

A Rohingya man was killed in a clash between ARSA and RSO at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya of Cox's Bazar last night, police said