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A case was filed against Barrister Sayedul Haque Suman yesterday on the charge of making derogatory remarks about the Hindu religion and the community.

Suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission Khandaker Enamul Basir is arrested in a bribery case filed by the commission.

No cattle markets will be allowed to sit outside of areas specifically designated by the city corporations ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia says.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) asks Special Branch (SB) of police to take steps to prevent former chairman and two former directors of now liquidated People’s Leasing and Financial Services (PLFS) to leave the country.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will conduct mobile court to find out Aedes mosquito breeding ground or larva inside the under-construction buildings in the city.

A Barguna court rejects two petitions of Aysha Siddiqa Minni, who is now in jail in connection with the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

A Dhaka court has sentenced four former officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines to different terms in jail in a case filed for misappropriating of Tk 28.58 lakh by making forged bills and vouchers in 2001.

The High Court summons the chief health officials of the two Dhaka city corporations to appear before it to inform about the steps taken by the authorities in preventing outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya, and eliminating the breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes in the capital.

Agitating drivers and staff of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation have withdrawn their demonstration after the BRTC chairman agreed to meet their demands.

A group of students of Dhaka University put the academic and the administrative buildings under lock and key demanding an end to the university’s affiliation with seven colleges.

With an aim to battle radicalisation and extremism in the context of Bangladesh, Manusher Jonno Foundation’s (MJF) Sampreeti project will organise a solidarity festival on July 25-26.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday slapped Tk 15.66 lakh as fine on eight business entities in five districts for polluting the environment.

North South University (NSU) and North South University ACM-W Student Chapter jointly held Inter-University Women’s Programming Competition (Season 2) at NSU on July 19, says a press release.

Rapid Action Battalion has detained 14 youths from Uttara, claiming that they are members of a “teen gang”.

The government has appointed 70 Supreme Court lawyers as new deputy attorney generals (DAG), for representing the state in cases before the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court.

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Forty-three convicts filed three separate appeals with the High Court yesterday, seeking acquittal of charges in the case over attacking a train carrying Sheikh Hasina in Ishwardi 25 years ago.

The shipping ministry yesterday urged all authorities concerned to take necessary steps to ensure safe journey of homebound people ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

The ground breaking ceremony of the permanent campus of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Maritime University, country’s lone public university for maritime education, was held in Chattogram yesterday.