Bangladesh Law Commission, in a recent report, has suggested that some lacunae exist in the Mobile Court Act 2009 which may render it susceptible to violation of human rights. According to the commission, the Act, which empowers executive magistrates to hold trials, contains provisions that can be repressive such as, sending offenders to jail for failing to instantly pay the monetary fine imposed by mobile courts.

A recent study by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) of public examination question leaks revealed some interesting insights.

A city councillor has reportedly put up iron gates in the capital's Arambagh, Fakirapool and adjoining areas for over a month purportedly as a security measure against petty theft and restricting entry of unwanted personnel.

We are appalled and outraged at the barbaric killing of a thirteen-year-old boy named Rakib in Khulna. The perpetrators inserted a high-pressure air pump nozzle into the boy's rectum and pumped air into his body that tore apart his intestine and burst his lungs.

Today is the fifth death anniversary of Taslimuddin Ahmed, a leather technologist, says a press release.

Today is the 31st death anniversary of Rear Admiral Mahbub Ali Khan, also a former minister for communications and agriculture.

Tomorrow is the first death anniversary of Syeda Rasheda Nasrin, wife of former BSEC secretary M Meftah-ur Rahman and daughter of late

We wholeheartedly welcome the High Court's directive to stop unfit motor vehicles from plying on the roads. The HC's suo moto rule to freeze around 19 lakh fake driving licences is also a laudatory move.

The embankment area known as Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) has trapped rainwater inside what was supposed to be flood-free zones.

Md Nurunnabi, former principal of Pabna Government Bulbul College, died yesterday after delivering his speech at a programme in Pabna

Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammad Sayedul Hoque on Sunday launched the updated Code of Conduct for Bangladesh's shrimp industry, an export earner, as a part of observing National Fish Week 2015 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.

After an anxious wait for 11 days, Nazma Khatun finally met her newborn child, who cushioned her in the womb from serious bullet injury on July 23.

Today is the 38th death anniversary of Dr Nawab Ali, a medicine professor of the Lake Medical College of India.

As inhabitants of the 166 enclaves celebrate the end of 68 years of statelessness with the historic swapping of enclaves between India and Bangladesh completed, some of them are left to confront some harsh realities on the ground, such as land grabbing by powerful stakeholders in the enclaves that have gone unchallenged for the most part over the past decades.

As inhabitants of the 166 enclaves celebrate the end of 68 years of statelessness with the historic swapping of enclaves between India and Bangladesh completed, some of them are left to confront some harsh realities on the ground, such as land grabbing by powerful stakeholders in the enclaves that have gone unchallenged for the most part over the past decades.

It befits the highest seat of learning to have the basic amenities in shape. Sanitation-wise, that is hardly the case in some public universities in the country.

A garment worker was crushed under a train during his attempt to save a child playing on the rail tracks in the capital's Banani yesterday afternoon.

Different organisations will celebrate the 75th birth anniversary of late Bazlur Rahman, former editor of the daily Sangbad, today.

In a brazen display of disregard for government orders, three-wheelers continue to hog the highways to the discomfiture of heavier vehicles.

Today is the 16th death anniversary of Prof Mohammad Faruque, former chairperson of Bangla departments of Jahangirnagar University