The law ministry yesterday gave its opinion for extending the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence for six more months.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to immediately take necessary steps to stop online and print news media and electronic media from publishing and broadcasting identities and photographs of rape and sexual assault victims in line with the relevant law.

Her voice on TV was bold and confident.

All major political parties have failed to meet the 2020 deadline of reserving at least 33 percent of all committee positions at local and national levels for women while the Election Commission is doing nothing about it.

One year into the detection of the first cases of coronavirus in the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque thinks the tumultuous year of the pandemic exposed some of the weaknesses in the healthcare services.

Six out of seven leftist student leaders and activists who were arrested following the protests over writer Mushtaq Ahmed’s death in custody got bail yesterday.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said yesterday that a list of freedom fighters that is not “debatable” will be released on Independence Day on March 26, when the country will start celebrations of its golden jubilee of independence.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday warned about posting abusive and indecent comments on social media and asked how educated people could do such things.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the historic March 7, 1971, speech of the Father of the Nation was the actual declaration of the country’s independence as it contained the directives on taking preparation for the Liberation War.

Foreigners in Bangladesh can start registration for Covid-19 vaccination from March 17, the birthday of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as the government planned inoculation of all eligible people.

The government has enacted the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act in 2010 that ensures the victims’ rights to law enforcement officers’ assistance, required medical facilities, and legal services.

One year on, Bangladesh is well and truly on the recovery trail from the deep impacts the coronavirus pandemic has inflicted on life and livelihood.

When I entered the hospital room, the bed was empty. Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore Kishore had gone to get his eyes checked. When he returned to the cabin in about 20 minutes, I was flabbergasted that he was on a wheelchair.

About 49,924 female migrant workers returned home from 21 countries amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Brac Migration Programme.

Journalists and free speech advocates are constantly being harassed and tortured by the execution of the Digital Security Act, Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) said in a statement yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named among the top three inspirational women leaders who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Commonwealth, Bangladesh High Commission in London said in a statement yesterday.

Ansar al Islam is far from over.

It was the afternoon of March 7, 1971, the day Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made the historic speech that would resonate throughout the annals of history, changing its course forever.

Three forest officials in Chattogram’s Rangunia staged a fake gunfight allegedly to give back a boat, seized earlier with logs, to its owner in exchange for a bribe.

Thousands of poor Bangladeshi workers who faced physical, mental and financial exploitation over the years due to Kazi Papul’s crimes have so far been denied justice.