The High Court yesterday observed that judges cannot performs their functions independently and therefore, justice will not be established, if their security is not ensured in courts.

Madrasa students performed better than the previous year, as the madrasa board saw rise in the success rate and the number of GPA 5 achievers, according to results published yesterday.

Prof ABM Faroque, director of Biomedical Research Centre, Dhaka University, yesterday called upon Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute (BSTI), Bangladesh Food Safety Authority and Institute of Public Health to carry out regular tests on pasteurised milk from now on.

A chamber judge of the Supreme Court judge yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that asked authorities concerned to conduct dope and vision tests of driving license seekers, frame rules of Road Transport Act 2018 and put them into effect in order to reduce road accidents.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government does not want any children to remain unschooled, as an educated nation is urgently needed to ensure a “Sonar Bangla” dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Bangladesh has made such remarkable progress in fish production in recent years, that the country is now one of the biggest fish producers in the world, State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru said yesterday.

Police recovered the hanging body of a madrasa student from Mirsharai upazila in Chattogram yesterday.

The Supreme Court’s chamber judge has upheld a High Court verdict that asked the authorities concerned to conduct dope and vision tests on driving licence seekers.

A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a petition with the High Court challenging Dhaka South City Corporation’s decision to make three streets of the city off limits to rickshaws.

A mobile court has fined two companies Tk 800,000 for selling sub-standard products at Kodomtoli in Dhaka.

The body of a man is found inside the rubble of a collapsed building at Pathantoli in Old Dhaka.

The High Court comes down heavily on the two Dhaka city corporations for their failure to prevent mosquito menace in the capital even after it passed orders for taking necessary steps to this effect.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the government has a plan to introduce electric and high-speed trains in the country to make the railway services better and faster.

A group of students of Dhaka University blocks the key Shahbagh intersection demanding an end to the university's affiliation with seven colleges.

Two construction workers were electrocuted at an under-construction building on Monday night, at Lohar Gate area of west Rampura in the capital.

Protesting the threat to Dhaka University Prof ABM Faroque by an additional secretary for his study which found antibiotics in packaged milk, students of Chittagong University (CU) formed a human chain yesterday.

A Khulna court yesterday awarded death penalty to five men, for gang-raping and murdering a woman, and killing her father at her house in 2015.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Mizanur Rahman, and suspended ACC director Khandaker Enamul Basir, for a transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.

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The impact of carnage in New Zealand and Sri Lanka raised the risk of terrorist attack in Bangladesh; however, law enforcers have managed to neutralise that, Monirul Islam, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP), claimed yesterday.