A Dhaka court today told BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's defence lawyers that the hearing of the charge framing in the Niko graft case would proceed with or without their participation on the next scheduled date

"We have noticed from media that some unruly students are participating in the untoward incidents by using their political identities, which are tarnishing the glorious history of student politics"

Phulpori, the first-year student of Kushtia's Islamic University who was tortured by BCL female activists, has moved to file a case against her tormentors. .Phulpori went to Kushtia court yesterday (Tuesday) to consult with lawyers about the legal procedure, reports our Pabna correspondent

The Rab yesterday arrested a 70-year-old fugitive convict of war crimes from a slum in the capital’s Demra area.

A Narail court yesterday sent a man to jail for torturing his infant child over dowry.

Human traffickers are enjoying impunity as victims and witnesses of trafficking are often afraid to speak up due to safety concerns, which obstructs the judiciary process, said speakers at a consultation meeting yesterday, demanding the government ensure security for victims.

The body of a 10-year-old domestic worker, which police recovered from a freezing van in front of a hospital in Moghbazar on Monday night, bore marks of torture, hospital and police sources said.

A total of 232 women and girls faced violence in February this year, found a report prepared by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.

A Narail court yesterday sent a man to jail for allegedly torturing his infant child over dowry.

The High Court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to probe the corruption allegations against Gazipur City Corporation’s acting mayor Asadur Rahman Kiron and submit a report in four months.

A Dhaka court yesterday again asked investigators to submit by March 30 the investigation report into the case filed over the attack on the convoy of former US ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat in Dhaka in August 2018.

Nineteen Bangladeshi nationals were rescued from a house at Kamagugu, South Africa on Monday.

Police have arrested a man on charges of torturing his eight-month-old son for not getting dowry from his wife in Lohagara upazila of Narail. .The arrestee is Mamun Sheikh, 33, of Raghunathpur village in the upazila..Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Lohagara Police Station Nasir Uddin said

A Dhaka court has directed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to take steps to freeze three bank accounts of former Chief Justice SK Sinha and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha and a three-storey house in the US in Ananta's name

The probe committee formed by the deputy commissioner of Kushtia also found serious negligence on the part of authorities of the university and the hall in preventing the incident

A Dhaka court today again asked investigators to submit by March 30 the investigation report into the case filed over the attack on the convoy of former US ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat in Dhaka in August 2018

The Committee to Protect Journalists and rights groups have called upon the Bangladesh authorities to “stop harassing” Prothom Alo journalist Rozina Islam.

Five BCL leaders and activists, including Sanjida Chowdhury, the prime accused in the torture of a female student in Kushtia’s Islamic University, have been asked to leave the dormitory by tomorrow.

A female garment worker was stabbed to death by her former colleague in Gazipur city Sunday night.

A Khulna court yesterday acquitted two local journalists in a 6-year-old ICT case filed back in 2017.