A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking its directives on the authorities concerned to give Tk 1 crore as compensation to the family of small-screen actor Asha Chowdhury who died in a road accident in Dhaka on January 5 this year.

The High Court today directed United Hospital authorities to pay Tk 30 lakh to each of the families of four victims, who were killed in a fire at its isolation unit on May 27 last year, within 15 days.

Expressing concern and resentment over the growing tendency of blaming victims of rape, torture and murder in real life and on social media, Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) today demanded that such acts be brought under the law.

Two separate cases were filed against former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon for making “defamatory remarks” against the current mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.

A housewife was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband in Dhaka’s Pallabi area this morning.

Police today picked up a security guard of the building in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area, where a 17-year-old O-level student was raped before her death on Thursday, for interrogation.

A Dhaka court yesterday could not take cognisance of charges against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a case filed for siphoning off around Tk 222 crore, as he was not produced before it due to illness.

Burma Campaign UK, a Rohingya advocacy group, has called for Facebook to stop the Myanmar military from using the social media platform to recruit members and promote its businesses -- profits from which help fund genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned four high-ups of Peoples Leasing and Financial Services Limited to quiz over misappropriation of Tk 3,500 crore allegedly by Prashanta Kumar Halder, known better as PK Halder.

The inspector general of police (IGP) has filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court verdict that

At a time of increasing need to protect reserve forests, a local lawmaker has put forward a proposal to change the status of nearly 600 acres of reserve forests and wildlife sanctuary in Cox’s Bazar into khas land for leasing them out to people living there.

The historic Homecoming Day of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was observed yesterday across the country in a befitting manner.

Myanmar will take back the Rohingya refugees and the issue will be resolved through discussion, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

To make access to citizen services easier, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday introduced an app -- “Sobar Dhaka”.

Khaledur Rahman Tito, a veteran politician and former state minister of Jatiya Party, died at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Jashore yesterday. He was 75.

Rab claimed to have arrested four members of a fraud gang from Ashulia area on charge of deceiving job seekers with promise of employment in their name-only company.

The Department of Environment yesterday demolished two illegal brick kilns set up on the banks of Turag river in Savar and fined one of them Tk 20 lakh.

A Dhaka court yesterday set January 17 for the judgment over the murders of Shamsun Nahar and her 17-year-old son Sajjadul Karim Shaon in Dhaka’s Kakrail in 2017.

The railways ministry has changed the project director of the Akhaura-Laksham Dual Gauge Double Line Project.

The mother of the O-level student, who was raped before her death on Thursday, today alleged that the investigation into the case was partial towards the accused, Fardin Iftekhar Dihan.