The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court orders that stayed the trial proceedings against six BNP leaders including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in nine separate vandalism and arson cases filed in 2015.

It is an unusual scene for port city dwellers to see a city administrator scooter through the city, instead of trveling in a motorcades with police protocol.

Outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das yesterday proposed restoration of air connectivity with Bangladesh.

The pandemic has critically impacted indigenous people living in plains, and pushed around 62 percent of them below extreme poverty line, said Indigenous People’s Development Services (IPDS) at a webinar yesterday.

For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to Covid-19, “there was no such thing as remote learning,” the head of the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said yesterday.

Youth’s involvement in higher and important policymaking is still unsatisfactory, although they share a large part of the country’s population, speakers said during an online discussion yesterday.

A parliamentary body today recommended that the government set up a specialised institute similar to Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute to carry out dope tests for those who want to join public services, police department and take admission in universities.

A house-help allegedly looted a house in Dhaka’s South Rajarbagh area after poisoning six members of the family.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday framed charges against Md Majnu in a case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area.

The High Court yesterday questioned the authorities’ failure to refund Tk 3.05 crore to a depositor of multilevel marketing company unipay2u Bangladesh Limited in line with a trial court verdict.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Abzal Hossain, a suspended accountant of the medical education department under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), to jail in connection with two separate money laundering cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

The National River Conservation Commission (NRCC) was formed to protect rivers, but it doesn’t have the executive power to punish those who are grabbing and polluting rivers, speakers at a webinar said yesterday.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of online news portal bdnews24.com, for eight weeks in a corruption case.

Development projects that negatively affect people’s livelihoods and harm the environment should not be allowed anywhere, and people have to remain alert to protect the country’s natural resources, said speakers yesterday.

Khulna City Corporation Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque yesterday announced a Tk 504.31 crore budget for the current fiscal year 2020-21, without imposing fresh taxes.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed on a six-day remand in a case filed against him on charge of misappropriating Tk 45 lakh from a house owner.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar is now opposing Election Commission’s move to have separate law for political parties getting registered.

Marking the third anniversary of the latest round of massive Rohingya exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh, ActionAid Bangladesh in collaboration with, Centre for Genocide Studies (CGS), University of Dhaka; Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), Brac University organised a two day long international e-conference titled, “Connecting the Rohingya Diaspora: Highlighting the Global Displacement.”

A parliamentary watchdog yesterday formed a sub-committee to investigate alleged widespread corruption in purchasing books for setting up Bangabandhu Corner at all government primary schools.

The High Court today granted anticipatory bail to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of online news portal bdnews24.com, for eight weeks in a corruption case.