Two-year-old Mehreen Akter was seen waiting with her mother in front of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court in Dhaka for more than seven hours yesterday, just to have a glimpse of her father.

Four BNP leaders, including its standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, were sent to jail today on completion of their different terms of remands in connection with three separate cases

Police seized five private cars from different areas of Chattogram city today in a case filed over ‘racing’ inside the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel on October 29

The incident took place in the afternoon when the mathematics department barred certain students from sitting for the 4th year in-course exams for not having at least 50 percent class attendance

The government has removed Supreme Court lawyer Tamanna Ferdous from the post of assistant attorney general for allegedly attacking another AGG in public last month

Receiving the information at 06:43pm, two fire engines rushed to the scene

2 'BNP activists' detained in a separate incident in Moghbazar

A Dhaka court today again asked Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit the probe report in Bangladesh Bank cyber heist case by December 31

The Supreme Court today deferred to November 16 the date to hear a review petition challenging a High Court verdict that scrapped the 16th amendment to the constitution, which empowers parliament to remove its judges for incapacity or misconduct

Unidentified arsonists set fire to a lorry in Gazipur's Sreepur upazila early today, the second day of the two-day countrywide blockade called by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami

A Jashore court yesterday sentenced two siblings to death and two others to life imprisonment for killing two persons in Chougacha upazila last year

Ctg jail finds 13 such cases this year

A man was beaten to death at Fulbari village in Magura’s Mohammapur upazila, for alleged fish theft. However, his family claims Md Riaz Mollah, 30, was a Swechchhasebak  Dal activist and died from injuries he sustained following an attack by a rival group.

The High Court yesterday directed the IGP to take necessary steps to track down BNP leader and former lawmaker Habibur Rahman Habib, and to produce him before the court in connection with a contempt of court rule against him.

A Swechchhasebak League leader and his cohorts  reportedly attacked the residence of a BCL leader with sharp weapons in Pabna’s  Chatiyani village over establishing dominance in the area.

A garment worker was shot dead and 30 people were injured in Gazipur as law enforcers opened fire on workers protesting for a minimum monthly wage of Tk 23,000, a day after it was fixed at Tk 12,500.

Police yesterday claimed the central leaders of BNP, who are in police custody, have accepted responsibility over the attack on the chief justice’s residence and setting fire to a bus in the capital centring the party’s October 28 rally.

Months after an eviction drive that demolished over 200 structures illegally built along the bank of Bakkhali river in Cox’s Bazar town, the area has been grabbed yet again.

A youth was hacked to death allegedly by his neighbours over a Facebook post in Moulvibazar’s Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.

Police are yet to arrest any of the 91 people involved in fraudulence -- proxy candidates and mediators -- in the recruitment test at the Election Commission Secretariat in the last two months.