A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced wife of a former accounts officer of Rajuk to four years' in jail in a case filed for amassing wealth illegally and concealing wealth information to the Anti-Corruption Commission.

The High Court in the full text of a verdict has observed that children’s welfare should be considered first, and law should not be applied in relevant cases without their welfare and wellbeing.

The trial court rightly found BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid guilty and sentenced him correctly in the case filed over evading tax while importing a car, said the High Court in the full text of a verdict.

Mohammad Shah Ali, brother of Ataullah Abu Amar Jununi, a commander of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), was arrested yesterday.

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology was closed for an indefinite period after 30 students were injured in a clash between them and police yesterday.

The High Court yesterday allowed the controversial e-commerce platform Evaly to withdraw Tk 2.35 crore from its accounts with Southeast Bank and City Bank for running the company, including paying remuneration for the board formed by the court.

A rape case has been filed with a Manikganj court against a youth on charges of raping a physically challenged girl in Manikganj’s Saturia upazila.

Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association (BELA) today served a legal notice to two secretaries and ten others to take immediate action to stop encroachment and destruction of mangrove forests along Bakkhali River in Cox's Bazar.

Brother of Ataullah Abu Amar Jununi, commander of banned militant organisation of Myanmar -- Arakan Rohingya Solidarity Army (ARSA) -- was arrested today.

The High Court in the full text of a verdict has upheld five years jail sentence of BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid in a case filed for evading tax while importing a luxury car, observing that the trial court has rightly found him guilty and convicted and sentenced him correctly.

The High Court today allowed beleaguered e-commerce platform Evaly to withdraw Tk 2.35 crore -- deposited at Southeast Bank and City Bank -- for running the company, including paying salaries of its board of directors formed by the court.

A Dhaka court today again asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit -- by February 2 -- the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka's Gulshan.

The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances should be allowed to visit Bangladesh to conduct an impartial investigation into the state of enforced disappearances, said victims’ families.

A Gazipur court yesterday placed the key accused on a three-day remand in the Sayeda Ghaffar Khaleque murder case.

Police recovered the body of a woman, aged around 21, at a house in Kathgora area of Ashulia in Savar today.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested an accused in half a dozen criminal cases from Rangunia upazila of Chattogram.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said that a circuit bench of High Court division will be set up in Chattogram city within this year as the chief justice has taken it to his consideration.

Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Prof Akhtaruzzaman has condemned the murder of the university's retired professor Sayeda Ghaffar Khaleque and demanded justice for her.

“MP-ministers make fun of our tears. They say our husbands married again and moved away and that there is no enforced disappearance in the country.”

The abandoned staff quarters of the Deputy Post Master General’s Office in Tangail has turned into a den for criminals and drug abusers, ruining the environment of the area.