A Dhaka court yesterday sent Salman F Rahman, private industry and investment adviser to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to jail on completion of his three-day remand in connection with an attempted murder case.

A Narayanganj court yesterday acquitted Mamunul Haque, former joint secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam and secretary general of Khelafat Majlish, in a rape case filed with Sonargaon Police Station in 2021.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, former mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation, over allegations of amassing wealth worth crores of takas through corruption and irregularities.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police's detective branch arrested a member of the central committee of Swechchhasebak League, who is also a journalist, in Dhaka's Moghbazar early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday constituted a three-member committee, led by retired HC judge Justice Miftah Uddin Choudhury, to probe allegations of irregularities in allocation of plots in Purbachal to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her family members.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was relieved from two more cases yesterday.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today deferred to November 17 the hearing on three separate review petitions challenging its 2011 verdict that scrapped the non-party caretaker government system

Around 200 Awami League (AL) men including former minister SM Rezaul Karim and his two brothers were sued over allegation of vandalising BNP office, attacking its men and blasting bombs two years ago

Police arrested Zakir Hossain, the former state minister for primary and mass education, from Dhaka this evening

The detective branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Iyaz Al Riad, vice-president of the central committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) last night.

He has to appear at 9:30pm on October 31

The court also relieved them from the charges of the case

Of the 54 students detained yesterday after entering the secretariat and staging a protest demanding re-evaluation of their HSC results, 26 were arrested today, while 28 were released under the custody of their guardians

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today deferred to November 17 the hearing on three separate review petitions challenging its 2011 verdict that scrapped the non-party caretaker government system

Three women garment workers got shot and another was assaulted in a clash between police and workers in Dhaka’s Ashulia yesterday morning.

The arrest warrants issued for former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others over crimes against humanity during the July-August uprising have been sent to the inspector general of police.

The High Court yesterday scrapped four extortion cases filed against BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman during the regime of the military-backed caretaker government in 2007.

With an arrest warrant out for ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s interim government should amend the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Act to ensure a fair and impartial judicial process, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

A BNP activist was killed in an attack carried out by Awami League leaders and activists in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore today

An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League, who was seen in photos published in media brandishing a gun and firing shots at student protesters on July 18 in Muradpur area of Chattogram city, was arrested by police yesterday..Habibur Rahman Ahnaf, an activist of Omat Gani MES College unit of