UK lawmaker and COP26 president Alok Sharma is urging developed countries to step up efforts to mobilise $100 billion annually, as pledged in 2015, to support climate vulnerable countries for climate adaptation and mitigation.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court ruling that Tufan Sarkar, a suspended Sramik League leader of Bogura who is accused of committing corruption, cannot seek bail from any court for six months for resorting to fraudulence.

The parliament yesterday expressed its condolences to Palestinians killed in the recent Israeli airstrikes.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, also the chairman of cabinet committee on law and order, yesterday said that no Hefajat-e-Islam leaders or supporters would be arrested in future without any specific allegations.

With 13 districts, 42 circles and 96 police stations under its jurisdiction, Dhaka range is one of the most important institutions of police that not only ensures safety and security of people but also oversees and monitors services provided by law enforcers.

Law enforcers arrested 19 persons with cash and cards for gambling inside the referees’ association office at Chattogram’s MA Aziz stadium on Tuesday night.

Workers of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) locked into a clash with drivers of battery-powered rickshaws in front of the Nagar Bhaban at Bandarbazar area in the city yesterday.

Popular singer and musician Mainul Ahsan Noble was sued under the Digital Security Act yesterday.

Six rights organisations yesterday served a contempt of court notice on S Alam Group and Chattogram’s Banshkhali police for filing a case under the Digital Security Act against a local engineer in violation of a High Court directive.

Prof Md Imdadul Hoque of the Botany department at Dhaka University has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor (VC) of Jagannath University (JnU).

The High Court is likely to deliver its verdict today on a suo-muto (voluntary) rule over the sensational incident of gang rape on the Murari Chand College campus in Sylhet on September 25 last year.

Pirojpur’s former Awami League lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin have sought High Court directives to scrap a lower court order that asked Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze their bank accounts and seize documents of properties in two corruption cases.

The Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict that granted bail to Rashedul Haque Chishty, son of former chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chisty, in a money laundering case involving Tk 159 crore.

The budget session of the eleventh parliament begins this afternoon amid the ongoing second wave of Covid-19. Scheduled to begin at 5pm, this will be also the thirteenth session of this parliament.

Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, that provides treatment to Covid-19 patients of Rajshahi district and beyond, has been running out of beds and high-flow oxygen facilities, hospital officials say.

Wife of Kamrul Islam Musa, an accused in Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case, has filed a general diary (GD), seeking security after giving testimony against former superintendent of police Babul Akter before a court yesterday.

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With the two city corporations taking charge of canals and drainage system from Wasa around five months back, Dhaka dwellers had high hopes that there will be significant improvement in the waterlogging situation.

Most of the 137 unlawfully recruited staffers, who were recruited by former Rajshahi University vice-chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan on his last day in office on May 6, laid siege to RU administrative building yesterday, pressuring the administration to allow them to join work.

Police recovered body of a doctor from her house in the city’s Kalabagan area yesterday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Kazi Sabira Rahman (47), a physician at Green Life Hospital. Police suspect that she was murdered, as the body bore stab marks with a sharp weapon.