A man was sued yesterday for Tk 500 crore in Thakurgaon for defaming BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul and his wife.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against seven people, including BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, in a case filed in connection with an arson attack that killed a policeman in 2015.

A union parishad member was stabbed to death allegedly by a youth in Cumilla’s Laksham upazila today

A three-day-old newborn baby has reportedly gone missing from Dhaka Medical College Hospital, according to family members

Rocky Chandra Das, executive engineer of Northern Electricity Supply Company (Nesco) office in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat, who was assaulted and threatened by a group of men allegedly identifying themselves as members of the ruling party, has been suspended

A Dhaka court today framed charges against seven people, including BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed in a murder case filed in connection with an arson attack that left a policeman dead in 2015.

Usually, one sees the families of the victims of enforced disappearances demanding their loved ones be returned. But in a rare occurrence, the survivors came to the fore at a programme yesterday to narrate the ordeals they went through.

BGB members recovered 10 gold bars, weighing over 1kg, from Bakher Ali village of Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

Police recovered the body of a man from a ditch of Jamalpur’s Madarganj upazila yesterday, three days after he went missing.

The two-finger test or virginity test in rape cases was a violation of fundamental rights of the survivours, the High Court observed in the full text of a verdict.

The High Court yesterday cleared the lower court concerned to run trial proceedings against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Niko graft case.

A decade has passed since  Hridi’s father, Parvej Reza, the then president of Paltan Thana Chhatra Dal, went missing without a trace. Year after year, on the occasion of International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the 12-year old participates in various events, demanding the return of her father.

The apex court judge, earlier on April 5 this year, delivered the highest 208 orders

A Chattogram court today accepted the charge sheet against six persons, including Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Ward Councillor Jahurul Alam Jasim, in a case filed for attacking Rizwana Hasan, chief executive of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA)

A Cumilla court today sentenced four people to death and another to life time imprisonment for killing a man in Cumilla’s Chandina upazila in 2009

Lawyers for four associates of former managing director of NRB Global Bank Proshanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, today completed their arguments in a case filed over laundering Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassing about Tk 426 crore illegally

The High Court today cleared the lower court concerned to run trial proceedings against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Niko corruption case

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Md Zakir Hossain, an administrative officer of the foreign ministry, to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case filed over amassing Tk 15.88 crore illegally

Hill Women's Federation and the Chittagong Hill Tracts Women's Association will enforce a half-day road and waterway blockade in Rangamati today demanding the cancellation of bail to a rape convict

More than 40 lakh cases are now pending trial in different courts of the country