Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh Coast Guard will be strengthened so that they can play a role in helping the government tap the potential of the blue economy.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will deliver its order today on a bail petition of BNP leader and former state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin in a corruption case in which he was sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment.

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.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petitions of former ward-30 councillor of Dhaka South Mohammad Erfan Salim, also son of Dhaka-7

Two people were sent to jail on Saturday for torturing a ten-year-old girl at Nilganj in Bakerganj of Barishal.

Police arrested a man with a consignment of 11,200 pieces of Indian painkiller Tapentadol, which has been considered as a narcotic in Bangladesh for the last six months, in Rajshahi city on Saturday.

For the first time in railways’ 158-year-old history, railway authorities yesterday observed “Rail Day” to mark the installment of rail line in territory of the then Bengal on this day in 1862.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday challenging the government’s move to sell the arms and weapons used during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971

The Dhaka Declaration on Defending Media Freedom, Journalists’ Protection and Citizen’s Rights was launched yesterday, containing signatures of over 140 rights activists, rights organisations, journalists, legal experts and professors.

Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives (LGRD) Minister Tajul Islam yesterday said the bridges around Dhaka which are creating obstacles in plying of water vessels will be demolished and new bridges will be built there.

Police yesterday arrested 15 more people in connection with the cases filed over arson attack on buses and subversive activities in the capital on Tuesday.

A Dhaka court today rejected the bail petitions of former ward-30 councillor of Dhaka South Mohammad Erfan Salim, also son of Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim, and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah, in two arms cases filed with Chawkbazar Police Station.

Two employees of Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital today confessed before a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate to their involvement in the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Anisul Karim on November 9.

The High Court today adjourned for a week the hearing on a writ petition that sought a stay order on Dhaka South City Corporation's (DSCC) move to relocate stray dogs.

A journalist at Rajshahi University (RU) has been sent to jail after he was arrested in a case filed five years ago under the Information and Communication Technology Act.

Mother of Rayhan Ahmed, who died after being tortured in police custody, said the people who helped destroy evidence and helped prime suspect Sub-inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan to flee must be arrested.

Police checkposts stand just before the entrance of Mohammadpur Geneva Camp. A few steps into the camp, it’s the same old sight that used to be seen at the notorious drug den of the capital before the 2018 anti-narcotics crackdown.

The second death anniversary of Akhtar-uzzaman Chowdhury, a retired deputy general manager of Janata Bank, was observed yesterday, said a press release.

A pick-up driver was killed and five were injured in a head-on collision between the pick-up truck and a bus in Bhatar Amtala area in Jashore’s Bagherpara upazila yesterday.

A suspected yaba trader was killed in a so-called gunfight with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Sluice Gate area of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.