Detectives did not include a prime culprit in the charge sheet submitted to a Dhaka court in January in a case filed over the attack on former US ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat’s convoy, the complainant alleged yesterday.

Rownak Rehana routinely dusts the trophies her son had won in different competitions and the books he used to read.

A special High Court bench has observed that confessional statement of an accused child has no legal evidentiary value and such confessions cannot form the basis of finding him guilty.

Investigators have so far been able to trace the whereabouts of Tk 1,150 crore out of about Tk 2,500 crore misappropriated allegedly by PK Halder and his accomplices from International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL).

Seven victims of the Digital Security Act and ICT Act yesterday demanded a judicial probe into the alleged brutal torture on writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore in custody and trial of law enforcers accused of torture.

The government is racing against time to achieve the lofty target of inoculating 70 lakh people in the first month of its Covid vaccination campaign.

Some unscrupulous people in the guise of businessmen conspired with rogues of the financial sector to loot the money of general people, said the High Court in an order on the liquidation of People’s Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (PLFSL).

Bangladesh and India are looking forward to stronger connectivity between the two countries and with South Asia and beyond in the next 20 years.

The five-year tenure of the Anti-Corruption Commission is about to end and a new one is to take charge this month but the fate of the probes into 56 cases filed in connection with the BASIC Bank loan scam remains uncertain.

Targeting users in upscale neighbourhoods, organised syndicates have been smuggling in high-priced crystal meth over the last few years, much to the concern of law enforcers and narcotics control officials.

The Department of Narcotics Control said it seized two kilogrammes of highly addictive crystal methamphetamine, popularly known as Ice, near a Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

Thirty-eight people were killed in Myanmar yesterday as the military tried to quell protests in several towns and cities, the United Nations said, the most violent day since demonstrations against last month’s military coup first broke out.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will arrive in Dhaka today on an official visit ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country on March 26-27 to attend the golden jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh’s independence.

A group of eminent citizens yesterday demanded justice over the custodial death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed and abolition of the Digital Security Act, not any amendments to the controversial law.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said that the decision on relaxing the bail conditions and waiving the sentence of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia would be taken after discussion with the law ministry.

Former Faridpur Awami League leader Sajjad Hossain alias Barkat and his brother Imtiaz Hasan alias Rubel amassed Tk 2,535.11 crore beyond their known sources of income, a CID probe has found.

Cartoonist Ahmed Kishore finally secured bail yesterday after languishing in jail for 10 months in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act.

Bangladesh will get 1.09 crore doses of the Oxford vaccine for free under the Covax facility by May.

Prime minister’s political adviser HT Imam died early today at a city hospital.

The number of people being vaccinated every day has been dropping over the last three days, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) data.