The High Court issues a rule asking the authorities to explain under what authority Prof M Abdus Sobhan is holding the office of vice chancellor of Rajshahi University.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) has arranged USD1.3 billion financing for Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) to set up its Ghorasal Polash Urea Fertilizer Project (GPUFP).

The High Court comes down heavily on Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) for not complying with its 2011 directive over sealing all sewerage lines to Buriganga River and for making an untrue statement about sewerage lines connected to the river.

In a major reshuffle, 18 police officials of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) including officers-in-charge of eight police stations are transferred.

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that issued a ban on the inspection and training activities of Nirapon, an alliance of North American readymade garments (RMG) buyers in Bangladesh.

A student of Eden Mohila College, who was injured after falling off a running motorcycle in Dhaka’s Bijoy Sarani area on Saturday, dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

The recruiting agencies of Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia will shoulder all responsibilities of female workers as long as they remain in the kingdom.

Dhaka city corporation authorities will conduct mobile court drive against the sources of dust pollution, Mayor Sayeed Khokon says.

Family of Jihan Sarwar, who supposedly died because of wrong treatment, lodged a written allegation of negligence and maltreatment for the death of their child to the civil surgeon of Chattogram district.

Amid an acute crisis of parking space in the city, Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) has approved 64 parking spots on a temporary basis.

Barishal unit of Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) yesterday brought out a procession and formed a human chain in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall in the city, demanding resolution of various issues.

Those who were elected from Chhatra League’s panel in Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) held a meeting with vice-chancellor Prof Md Akhtaruzzman on Friday night without notifying the student union’s vice president and social service affairs secretary, Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur alleged yesterday.

The High Court yesterday ordered the home secretary to provide necessary manpower and logistical support to mobile courts so that those can run smoothly.

With a tiny wireless earphone inserted in his ear and an electronic transmitter attached to his arm with an elastic band, Rasel Ali sat for a recruitment test of a state-owned bank at Adarsha High School in Mirpur on Friday, when the detective branch (DB) of police detained him.

A court in Chattogram yesterday sent two accused of the case over national identity (NID) forgery involving Rohingyas to jail after they surrendered before the court on completion of their four-week bail secured from the High Court.

Rushad Faridi, the Dhaka University teacher who has been protesting since last Tuesday demanding to be reinstated at his department, yesterday conducted a class at the entrance stairs of Social Science faculty building.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged all, especially students, to raise voice against food adulteration.

Prosecution witness Razia Rahman, widow of slain publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, yesterday told a Dhaka court that some unknown militants killed her husband inside the office of Jagriti Prokashani on October 31, 2015.

Detectives of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) on Saturday night arrested three transport workers over attempting to sexually harass a female student of Chittagong University in a running bus on November 27.

Fuel supply came to a halt in 26 districts of three divisions as petrol pump and tank lorry owners and workers went on an indefinite strike since early hours of yesterday to press home their 15-point demand.