Judge KM Nurul Islam delivered the verdict yesterday afternoon in his absentia and also issued an arrest warrant against him

The Supreme Court today deferred the date to February 20 the hearing of the review petition filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, challenging the verdict that upheld his death sentence in a war crimes case

Police claim to have foiled a robbery plot and arrested four suspects, including two army members, near Banani Star Kabab restaurant early yesterday.

The man found hanging from a tree in the Dhaka University area yesterday has been identified as Abu Saleh from Keraniganj upazila.

A forex dealer and his cousin have been stabbed and the attackers allegedly made off with Tk 1 crore in the city’s Gulshan.

The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday rejected a petition challenging the tribunal’s jurisdiction to hold the trial of Maj Gen Ziaul Ahsan, who is accused of keeping people in secret prisons after abducting them.

The Supreme Court chamber judge has stayed a High Court order that granted bail to Shakil Ahmed, former head of news at Ekattor Television, and Farzana Rupa, its principal correspondent, in the garment worker Rubel murder case during the uprising.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to confiscate a three-bedroom flat and a five-bedroom villa in Dubai belonging to former Padma Bank chairman Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat.

Miscreants stole a hundred-year-old black stone idol and gold ornaments from a temple in Harirampur upazila of Manikganj early today

A Cumilla court has acquitted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 35 others in a sabotage case filed with Chauddagram Police Station in 2015

A court in Chattogram today placed former Awami League (AL) MP of Chattogram-15 (Satkania) Abu Reza Nazimuddin Nadwi on a four-day remand in two separate cases filed over the explosives act

The other accused his family members and associates

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed separate cases against former LGRD minister Tajul Islam and his wife Fouzia Islam on charges of amassing illegal wealth and engaging in suspicious financial transactions

A DB police team took custody of Habib and transported him back to Joypurhat today

Sarafat took control of Padma Bank allegedly with assistance from top police and intelligence officials during the AL regime

Khaleda has been undergoing treatment at the London Clinic since January 8

Two people were killed after a truck hit a motorcycle in Jhikargachha upazila of Jashore this morning

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate GM Farhan Ishtiaque also granted two-day remands for former Awami League lawmaker Sadek Khan and former North City Ward Councillor Salimullah Salu, who were accused in the same case.

Judge Md Rabiul Alam of the Special Judge's Court-4 of Dhaka set the new date as the defence lawyer placed further arguments, said the bench assistant.

Among the injured, three were admitted to Faridpur Medical College Hospital, while two received first aid.