A court in Chattogram yesterday placed three activists of Awami League’s Lal Khan Bazar ward on one-day remand in connection with a case filed over vandalising an AL leader’s office during a factional clash on June 28.

The High Court directs the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to finish the investigation into an 11-year-old corruption case against former BNP communications minister Nazmul Huda and his wife Sigma Huda in next four months.

The incident of violence against women, particularly rape, has increased significantly in the recent months comparing to that of the previous year, says a report of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.

Most of the areas in the port city of Chattogram go under knee-to-waist deep water due to incessant downpour since Sunday night causing immense sufferings for the city dwellers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses her government’s firm stance against sexual violence including rape and called upon males of the country to be more vocal, preventing the epidemic of such incidents in the society.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says people should accept the gas price hike for the sake of the country's economic progress as the government has to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) at a higher cost.

Harun Or Rashid, the prime suspect in a case filed over killing Samia Afrin Saima after rape, has confessed that he murdered the seven-year-old girl after rape so that she cannot disclose his identity.

A Bangladeshi national has been shot dead by allegedly members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Kiranganj border in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj.

The results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on July 17.

Untreated furnace oil has been allegedly released to a nearby water body that connects the Halda river from a power plant in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila.

The Supreme Court (SC) extends for two months its stay on a High Court order that halted Bangladesh Bank circular allowing defaulters to reschedule their loans with a repayment period of up to 10 years.

A day after a ban was imposed on rickshaw on three major roads in Dhaka, hundreds of rickshaw-pullers take positions at several points from Uttara to Sayedabad in the capital to protest the restriction.

The Supreme Court today upheld a High Court verdict that granted bail to former Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a murder case, clearing the way of his walk out of jail.

The daughter-in-law of Jatiya Party lawmaker Kazi Feroz Rashid is hospitalised with a bullet wound in her abdomen.

Mohammadpur-Motijheel route will be brought under bus ticketing system within this month, said Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon yesterday.

The High Court yesterday ordered the district and sessions judge of Narail to explain why his judicial powers should not be curtailed for exempting the main accused of a sensational murder case.

Chattogram District Administration (CDA) knocked down at least 34 makeshift houses from hill slopes to avoid casualties from landslide following incessant rain for the last two days at Khulshi area of the port city yesterday.

Two people died and two children went missing in two separate incidents of boats capsizing in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet yesterday.

Protesting the recent rape incidents across the country

The government has appointed 105 Supreme Court lawyers as new assistant attorney generals (AAGs).