The High Court upholds a lower court order that allowed the government and Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to confiscate the Hong Kong bank accounts and shares of former foreign minister M Morshed Khan and his son Faisal Morshed Khan.

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Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on November 18, 2019

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam says the Myanmar government is not out of the jurisdiction of International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC).

The authorities of Chittagong University (CU) are celebrating its 53th founding anniversary amid festivity and enthusiasm.

The High Court summons Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Magistrate Mohammad Sarowar Alam for not providing the certified copy of an order of the mobile court, which he conducted while convicting a person in July.

Film actor Shakib Khan has been fined Tk 10 lakh for constructing his house in Dhaka’s Niketon area violating the Rajuk-approved design.

Two people, who were injured when a train rammed into another in Brahmanbaria on November 12, die in Dhaka and Sylhet, rising the death toll to 18.

The Supreme Court grants bail to three accused of 23-storey FR Tower design forgery case, clearing the way for their walk out of jail.

Six mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority file a total of 88 cases under Road Transport Act-2018 in Dhaka city, on the first day of their operation.

Police arrest a staff of the Election Commission (EC) in Chattogram in connection with a case filed over National Identity (NID) scam involving Rohingyas.

A local leader of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) has been killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Harinakundo upazila of Jhenidah.

Four people were shot dead and six others wounded while watching a football game in the backyard of a central California home on Sunday, police said.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has urged the transport owners and workers to refrain from calling strikes. The new transport law will be implemented despite all difficulties, he said.

Two Bangladeshis are shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Babelakona bordering area of Sreebardi upazila in Sherpur.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought both public and private investment from UAE in larger volume in potential sectors such as RMG, IT, agriculture and special economic zones in Bangladesh for mutual trade benefit of the country.

A Dhaka court accepts the charge sheet against 25 accused in connection with a case filed over the killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad.

Transport workers go on indefinite strike in eight southern and northern districts protesting the Road Transport Act-2018.

The Supreme Court has deferred its order until November 24 on a petition filed by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) seeking a stay on the High Court order that issued an injunction on its move to realise Tk 12,580 crore due from Grameenphone.