The High Court has sentenced BNP leader and former lawmaker Habibur Rahman Habib to five months' imprisonment for committing contempt of court by making derogatory comments about a judge.

A Dhaka court today denied the bail of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed over the vandalism of the chief justice's residence during the BNP-police clash on October 28

A student of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) was injured in a crude bomb attack in AHM Qamaruzzaman square area of Rajshahi city last evening

A local was arrested after a Swechchhasebak League leader was killed at Mithadighi in Satkania upazila of Chattogram last night

A Pakistani citizen has been illegally working at a private university in Chattogram for nearly two and a half years after being appointed by a local ruling-party lawmaker, who is also chairman of the board of trustees of the institution

BNP's Savar thana unit president Saiful Islam alias Saifuddin has been arrested in a sabotage case, police said today

The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court order that dismissed the case filed by former superintendent of police (SP) Babul Akhter against PBI chief Banaj Kumar Majumdar and five others on charges of torturing him in custody

The Supreme Court is set to pronounce its verdict today in a much-discussed writ petition involving the legality of Ashiyan City’s housing project in the capital’s Dakkhinkhan area.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 149 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir, in a case filed over assaulting policemen and preventing them from performing their duties in front of Kakrail Super Market in September 2011.

The High Court yesterday stayed for a month the government’s suspension of Dinajpur municipality Mayor Syed Jahangir Alam, who served time in jail following an order from the Appellate Division for committing contempt of court.

A Chhatra League activist was stabbed to death allegedly by his rivals in Sylhet city’s Baluchar TB gate area early yesterday.

Detectives arrested a Benapole municipality councillor and his two relatives in Ashulia today, in a case filed over the killing of one Omar Faruq following a dispute over smuggled gold

A Narayanganj court today accepted the charge sheet in the murder case filed over the July 2021 fire at Hashem Foods Ltd in Narayanganj, which killed 54 people..The court also rejected a naraji (no-confidence) petition filed by victims families’ challenging the charge sheet, which earlier

Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Ainjibi Forum (BJAF), a body of pro-BNP lawyers, today demanded the removal of trial jurisdictions of the courts concerned that sentenced political opponents, who have died or become victims of enforced disappearance, in false cases, and to rescind their judgments

A woman died last night, hours after she suffered burn injuries after her house was set on fire over a land dispute in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj

A Dhaka court today framed charges against 149 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir, in a case filed over assaulting policemen and preventing them from performing their duties in front of Kakrail Super Market in September 2011

Sajedul Islam Sumon, a BNP leader from Shahinbagh who has been missing since December 2013 and is believed to be a victim of enforced disappearance, was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment yesterday in an arson case

Another BNP chairperson's advisor has been arrested from Dhaka's Basila area this afternoon

The Mirpur area in Dhaka witnessed highest number of arson attacks between October 28 and November 20, according to statistics of Fire Service and Civil Defence

The High Court today stayed for a month the government's suspension of Dinajpur municipality Mayor Syed Jahangir Alam, who served in jail following an order from the Appellate Division for committing contempt of court.