With trees and shrubs on the median strip thinning out and truckers parking vehicles on both sides of the road, Tejgaon-Satrasta is once again returning to its old self -- a troublesome thoroughfare for traffic.

State Minister for Information Murad Hasan yesterday said steps will be taken to reinstate media workers who lost their jobs during the coronavirus period.

The High Court yesterday justified the law that has empowered the country’s courts to virtually carry out the judicial proceedings through videoconferences and other digital means.

The prolonged lockdown and transition to online schooling has had an undesired side effect -- its negative impact on students’ mental health.

Rights activists have brought out a torch procession with the slogan “Muktir Michhil” (March for Freedom) in Dhaka protesting the violence against women across the country.

At least 55 shanties and shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at a slum in Dhaka's Kalshi early today.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday refused to grant bail to Abu Naser Chowdhury, a convict in the Commodore Ghulam Rabbani murder case.

Police recovered body of a man from Dhaka’s Badda area yesterday morning.

The High Court yesterday issued an injunction restraining the authorities concerned of the government to sell weapons used during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police have arrested two people and seized two geckos from their possession, while the duo were smuggling them from Bandarban to Dhaka.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that cleared the way for a lower court to resume trial proceedings of a case filed over the attack on motorcade of the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.

The High Court yesterday directed authorities to conduct an inquiry into the reported incident of forced marriage of an 85-year-old man and 11-year-old girl in Jamalpur and to submit the probe report to this court on November 29.

On February 12, 2018, a Tangail court -- in just 14 days -- sentenced four men to death and another to seven years’ imprisonment for raping and murdering law student Rupa Khatun on a moving bus.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday sent letters to three separate agencies to investigate the irregularities and wealth of Monir Hossain, also known as Golden Monir.

Despite LGRD Minister Tajul Islam’s assurance at a press conference last Sunday that Dhaka will be transformed into a modern and liveable city, the proposed Detailed Area Plan (DAP) for the capital is facing severe criticism from architects and urban planners.

Worthy Publications launched their first ever monthly magazine, Quirky, at Prezzie café in the capital’s Dhanmondi on Friday. The publication will be like the Reader’s Digest, with segments devoted to health, advice, lifestyle, entertainment, business, food, travel and literature.

Police yesterday barred the victims of Tazreen Fashions factory fire from going to Gono Bhaban, on the eighth anniversary of the tragedy where at least 113 workers were killed and 172 injured as fire wrecked the garments factory in November 2012.

Sixty shanties were gutted after a fire broke out yesterday at Jahuri Mahalla slum in the capital’s Mohammadpur area.

Barishal District Administration yesterday fined 62 people Tk 11,200 in total for not wearing masks in the city, to check the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today sent three separate letters to CID, BRTA and NBR in connection with Monir Hossain, better known as "Golden Monir"