The Supreme Court has acquitted a condemned convict in a case filed over crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

The group led by former Students Against Discrimination leader Abdur  Razzak Riyad, arrested for allegedly extorting a former Awami League  lawmaker’s family in Gulshan, had targeted another ex-AL MP, Abdul Kalam  Azad, a month earlier, said police.

A Rangpur court yesterday sent five people to jail in a case filed over the attacks on Hindu houses, vandalism, and looting of valuables in Rangpur’s Gangachara upazila.

National Citizen Party Convener Nahid Islam yesterday said they will declare the manifesto for a new Bangladesh on August 3 at Central Shaheed Minar.

The judge also handed down two-year jail terms to 17 other accused in the same case

The agreement was signed at the BEPZA Complex in Dhaka by Md Ashraful Kabir, Member (Investment Promotion) of BEPZA, and Heng Zeli, Chairman of Handa (Bangladesh) Garments Co Ltd, representing their respective organisations

At least 70 extortion cases were filed on average every month in the capital in the first six months this year, according to crime statistics shared by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has said that most of the decisions made to suppress the July uprising came from political high-ups, including the prime minister herself.

'This administration exists because of us. If you fail to meet our demands, we'll send you home ourselves,' says a protester

The government is oppressing the very groups it relied upon to come to power, including the labourers, women and other minority groups, said former Jahangirnagar professor Anu Muhammad.

Economist Debapriya Bhattacharya yesterday said the time has come for the interim government to announce its exit strategy, clearly outlining what it hopes to achieve before leaving office and what it will leave behind for the next administration.

A clash erupted between supporters of NCP and BNP during a rally protesting an alleged conspiracy targeting LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud in Cumilla’s Muradnagar yesterday.

The Election Commission yesterday published a draft list of 39 constituencies in 14 districts, including Dhaka, for delimitation.

The deadline set by the consensus commission for finalising the July National Charter expires today, yet several crucial issues remain unresolved.

Any wrong decision by the government could allow fascist forces to be rehabilitated into politics and put the country’s democratic journey at serious risk, said BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman.

At the height of the July uprising, many hospitals turned their backs -- some out of fear, others silenced or forced into complicity. State forces roamed halls of healing, seizing CCTV footage, erasing patient records, and threatening doctors not to treat the wounded.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque on a seven-day remand in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system.

As the sun rose on July 31, 2024, thousands of students, teachers, and citizens across Bangladesh prepared to join the March for Justice, a countrywide programme organised by Students Against Discrimination.

A landlord was beaten to death allegedly by local BNP activists in Narayanganj’s Araihazar yesterday, following a dispute over unpaid rent for a local party office set up on his property.

Two schoolgirls drowned while bathing in the Narsunda river at Karimganj in Kishoreganj yesterday afternoon.