The High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to an engineer, Md Shafiqul Islam, in three cases filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for the officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

For the second consecutive day, a group of North South University students staged a sit-in in front of their campus yesterday, demanding 30 percent waiver of fees for the upcoming fall semester.

Residents of ward-33 in Rangpur city have been suffering immensely since part of a clay road connecting Damdama bridge was washed away following a record-breaking downpour on September 26.

Brac Bank Ltd yesterday filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking a stay on its High Court verdict that directed the bank to give Tk 15 lakh in compensation to jute mill worker Jaha Alam, who had suffered in jail for three years instead of the real accused in several corruption cases.

Following a report published in The Daily Star, a Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice on the government to form a committee in three days to probe the negligence in renovating two-century-old twin temples at Muktagachha in Mymensingh and to take appropriate action against the officials responsible for the negligence.

The Detective Branch of police in a raid at Noorjahan Road in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area yesterday claimed to have busted a fake currency manufacturing mini-factory, owned by one Humayun Kabir who had previously been arrested six times for the same offence.

Upon receiving complaints from child pornography victims and different international law enforcement agencies, the digital forensic team of the cybercrime unit of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) has arrested three Bangladeshi youths from different areas of Dhaka under the Pornography Control Act.

Department of Environment (DoE) of Chattogram region today fined 10 businesses Tk 13,60,000 for hill cutting, violating the terms of clearance certificates and not renewing them.

Rapid Action Battalion detained seven members of a gang that the elite force says is involved in illegal drugs from Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area.

A man and his father-in-law were arrested today by Rab. The duo had been “cheating patients”, pretending to be dentists.

Detective Branch of police claimed to have busted a “fake currency manufacturing mini-factory” on Nurjahan Road in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area last night.

A man and his son were killed when the motorcycle they were on lost control and hit an electric pole in Dhaka's Jatrabari last night.

With less than a week left to go for Durga Puja, idol artisans are putting the finishing touches to their figures of Goddess Durga and her sons and daughters -- Kartik, Ganesh, Sharashwati and Laxmi.

Family members of Rayhan Ahmed -- who died after being taken into police custody in Sylhet on October 11 -- yesterday demanded judicial probe into the incident, while a second post-mortem of the body reportedly found 111 injuries inflicted hours before his death.

In proper garbage management, waste should be disposed of in a protected landfill area first to minimise pollution of surface and ground water, soil and air. Later, those have to be gradually recycled, reused and incinerated.

Just like traditional education’s pivot online, performing arts classes too have taken a similar virtual route in the wake of the Covid-19.

Former state minister and BNP leader AKM Mosharraf Hossain was laid to rest at his family graveyard at Kandigaon village in Mymensingh yesterday.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller and Acting Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Bangladesh, John Allelo, yesterday inaugurated an e-mentoring initiative for doctors fighting on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The High Court yesterday rejected a writ petition that challenged legality of the process for reappointing Taqsem A Khan as managing director (MD) of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa).

BNP yesterday alleged that the Election Commission has “deceived people once again with its inactive and subservient role” during Saturday’s by-polls to Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 constituencies.