The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will deliver its decision today on the meaning and tenure of a convict’s life imprisonment.

A Dhaka court today adjourned till January 7 the hearing on charge framing against expelled Dhaka South Jubo League president Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in two cases filed under the arms and narcotics control acts.

Investigation officer of Sylhet’s Murari Chand College rape case will submit charge sheet soon as the DNA test reports were handed over to him today.

Rab yesterday night arrested a man on charge of raping his sister-in-law for multiple times throughout last three months in Gazipur.

To meet the public’s expectations, there is no alternative to making investigation and prosecution processes as flawless as possible, said Iqbal Mahmood, chairman of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday.

The Election Commission has cancelled the registration of Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) as a political party as it failed to meet the condition of maintaining the registration.

The government has agreed on principle to bring “middlemen” in the labour migration sector under an accountability framework, expatriates’ welfare ministry secretary Ahmed Munirus Saleheen said yesterday.

The 21st death anniversary of Syed Mahbubul Haque (Benu Mia), a prominent freedom fighter in Magura, will be observed today (Monday, November 30).

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday submitted a writ petition before the High Court seeking its directive on the government to form a high powered inquiry committee to probe the violation of fundamental rights of the children in the three child development centres of the country.

Women of coastal and flood-prone areas are already marginalised and now there is added challenge of Amphan, early marriage, the added burden of unpaid care work, destroyed livelihood, and gender-based violence, said speakers at an online roundtable yesterday.

Today marks the third death anniversary of former Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq.

Family members of an alleged human trafficker reportedly launched an attack on the residence of one of the victims right after he was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday at Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh.

In an effort to ease children’s loneliness during the pandemic, International Publishers Association (IPA), World Health Organization (WHO) and

A housewife was possibly beaten and later burnt to death in her flat by unidentified miscreants in Dhaka’s Kafrul area.

Journalists working at Rajshahi University (RU) today issued a 24-hour ultimatum to withdraw a complaint filed against their fellow, Mortuza Noor, RU correspondent of Bangladesh Pratidin.

Twenty-nine people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Police early yesterday arrested an alleged member of a gold smuggling ring with 14 gold bars weighing 2.582 kilogrammes from Station Road area of the port city.

Although people have started wearing face masks on the main thoroughfares in the wake of actions, they are still ignoring the health guideline on the lanes and by-lanes in Chattogram city.

Hundreds of students of Rajshahi’s Shah Makhdum Medical College yesterday protested Friday’s attack on fellow students allegedly by the college’s managerial staff on campus.

A majority of women and girls in six upazilas vulnerable to climate change faced violence by close ones during shutdown enforced amid the coronavirus pandemic, says a Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) report.