The cause of death of Sultana Jasmine, the Naogaon union land office employee who died in Rab custody on March 24, was given as "shock due to intracranial haemorrhage" in her final autopsy report.

"We filed a bail petition with the court. It can be learned after 12:00pm when the hearing on it will be held," Prashanta Kumar Karmoker, a lawyer for Shams, told The Daily Star this morning

Patients across the country are forced to pay almost double the usual fares for ambulances because of a cartel of ambulance owners at public hospitals.    

The High Court yesterday said the Prothom Alo has the right to get justice because it had corrected the mistake it made in an online report on March 26.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said if a report like the one published in the daily Prothom Alo appeared anywhere in the world, licence of that media would have been revoked.

More than 800 BNP leaders and activists were sued yesterday over Saturday’s clash with police during the party’s sit-in protest in Khulna city’s KD Ghosh Road area.

A Bangladeshi man was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force along the border in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila on Saturday night.

The bullet-hit body of a Rohingya man, who also had his throat slit, was found at Balukhai refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, six hours after he was abducted by a group of criminals.

Two fugitive murder convicts have been arrested in Tangail’s Kalihati and Ghatail upazilas.

The bullet-hit body of a Rohingya man, who also had his throat slit, was found at Balukhai refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today, six hours after he was abducted by a group of criminals.

The High Court today granted a six-week anticipatory bail to Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman in a case filed against him under the Digital Security Act

A Bangladeshi man was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the border in Lalmonirhat's Patgram upazila last night

Prothom Alo editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman today sought anticipatory bail from the High Court in a case filed against him under the Digital Security Act.

Another 700 to 800 people have been made unnamed accused in the case

No case has been filed yet for the death of Sultana Jasmine, which may delay justice for the victim’s family, said a group of eminent citizens in Rajshahi yesterday.

Karimon Nesa, mother of Prothom Alo reporter Samsuzzaman Shams, came all the way to Dhamrai from her Manikganj home to attend a human chain demanding the release of her son and scrapping of the controversial Digital Security Act.

At least 27 people were injured in three separate clashes yesterday involving members of the BNP, the Awami League, and the police in Natore, Khulna, and Pirojpur.

An activist of the Awami League was stabbed to death by his rivals following factional clashes in Jhenidah’s Harinakunda upazila on Friday.

A man was shot dead and another suffered bullet wounds when Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) fired on a “gang of smugglers” along the Baromari border in Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila on Friday night.

A 60-old Rohingya national was shot dead during a clash between two terrorist groups at a camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.