A rights organisation today (Thursday) served a legal notice on the government, requesting it to give Tk 1 crore as compensation -- in three days -- to each of the families of the victims, who died after falling sick due to heat on two overcrowded ferries on Padma River in Madaripur on Wednesday.

Minu Akhter, who has been serving in prison for three years instead of the convicted Kulsuma Akhter in a case filed over the killing of one Kohinur Begum in Chattogram in 2006, awaits a High Court ruling on her unjust circumstances.

Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mufti Harun Izhar has given his confessional statement over the mayhem in Chattogram.

Khulna journalist Abu Tyeb, who was arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act, was freed on bail today.

A Dhaka court today again rejected the bail petition of the man, who publicly assaulted a rickshaw-puller in Dhaka's Bangshal area on May 4.

A Narayanganj court today placed Mamunul Haque, joint general secretary of Hefajat-e Islam’s former central committee, on a 15-day remand in connection with five cases.

The High Court asked Attorney General AM Amin Uddin today to take necessary steps so no trees at Suhrawardy Udyan are felled till May 20.

Hefajat-e-Islam's former joint secretary general Mamunul Haque and Rafiqul Islam Madani, widely known as "Shishu Bokta", were sent to jail today on completion of their remand. They were produced before a Dhaka court in three cases filed with Motijheel and Paltan police stations over the recent violence in the capital.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has decided to operate necessary number of courts -- at all tiers -- during the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday so that people can move cases to get remedy from courts.

A court in Narayanganj today deferred the petition to take Hefajat-e-Islam's Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque on remand in two cases filed over rape and violence in the district’s Sonargaon.

The Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks the High Court orders that granted bail to three Hefajat-e-Islam activists in three separate vandalism and arson cases.

Two Supreme Court lawyers filed a contempt of court petition with the High Court against the government today on charge of cutting down trees to implement a mega project at the site, ignoring the court’s 2009 verdict.

Two Hefajat-e-Islam leaders were sent to jail today after they were produced before a Dhaka court in a case filed with Paltan Police Station.

A Supreme Court lawyer today served a legal notice on three concerned government officials asking them to stop cutting down trees and building concrete structures in Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan in 48 hours.

A total of 1,01,520 under-trial prisoners, including 1,257 minors, were released from jail after securing bail from virtual courts across the country in two phases over 75 working days.

The High Court today stayed the process for appointing around 54,000 teachers to private schools, colleges and madrasas across the country for violating its earlier directives.

Two Hefajat leaders were placed on different terms of remand today in two separate cases filed with Motijheel and Paltan police stations over the 2013 mayhem in the capital's Shapla Chatter and Paltan areas.

Pro-BNP faction of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) today protested against declaring Attorney General AM Amin Uddin as the new president of the organisation without an election.

The High Court imposed Tk 10,000 fine on Supreme Court lawyer Md Eunus Ali Akond today for not appearing before it, after filing a writ petition challenging the legality of the ongoing “lockdown”.

The High Court today directed S Alam Group, owner of SS Power I Plant of Banshkhali in Chattogram, to give Tk 5 lakh as initial cost to the family of each victim -- killed in police firing on April 17 this year.