A Chattogram court today accepted the charge sheet against six persons, including Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Ward Councillor Jahurul Alam Jasim, in a case filed for attacking Rizwana Hasan, chief executive of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA)

A Cumilla court today sentenced four people to death and another to life time imprisonment for killing a man in Cumilla’s Chandina upazila in 2009

Lawyers for four associates of former managing director of NRB Global Bank Proshanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, today completed their arguments in a case filed over laundering Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassing about Tk 426 crore illegally

The High Court today cleared the lower court concerned to run trial proceedings against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Niko corruption case

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Md Zakir Hossain, an administrative officer of the foreign ministry, to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case filed over amassing Tk 15.88 crore illegally

Hill Women's Federation and the Chittagong Hill Tracts Women's Association will enforce a half-day road and waterway blockade in Rangamati today demanding the cancellation of bail to a rape convict

More than 40 lakh cases are now pending trial in different courts of the country

A college girl was stabbed allegedly by her stalker in broad daylight in Noakhali’s Laxmipur town yesterday.

A Jubo League activist died early yesterday, hours after criminals attacked him with sharp weapons in Mymensingh’s Muktagachha upazila.

A male Chinese national and a local woman were sent to jail Monday in a case filed over raping an 11th-grade college student.

A 33-year-old woman and her four-year-old daughter were found dead at their residence in the port city’s Bank Colony in the EPZ area yesterday.

Kaliganj Nesco executive engineer was assaulted and threatened by a group of men who allegedly identified themselves as members of the ruling party and barged into his office in Lalmonirhat yesterday.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a contempt of court petition with the Appellate Division of the SC against seven pro-BNP lawyers for making “slanderous, derogatory and contemptuous” comments about two apex court judges.

A Dhaka court yesterday set September 24 for hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khakeda Zia and 14 others in the Gatco graft case filed in 2007.

A local Awami League leader has been arrested over the attempted rape of a madrasa girl in Sirajganj's Shahjadpur upazila

An organised syndicate engaged in smuggling electronic devices has set up a laboratory capable of altering IMEI of stolen cell phones

Criminals have hacked to death a Jubo League activist in Mymensingh’s Muktagachha upazila

A Chinese national and a woman were sent to jail yesterday in a case filed over raping an 11th-grader

A Dhaka court today again asked Criminal Investigation Department to submit by October 1 the probe report in a case filed over the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash in November last year

A BCL leader of Chittagong University unit was sued last night on charges of attacking the chief engineer and security officer of the university