The High Court yesterday upheld the death penalty of 15 convicted persons, including three former Rab officials and expelled Awami League leader Nur Hossain, for their involvement in conspiracy, abduction and killing of seven Narayanganj men in 2014.

Terming the Narayanganj seven-murder a glaring example of cruelty to its highest degree, the High Court yesterday observed that the accused Rab men were unkind even to the bodies of the victims.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam described yesterday's High Court verdict in the Narayanganj seven-murder cases as satisfactory while the victims' families said they would have been fully satisfied had the punishment handed down on all

A man, allegedly involved in a shooting incident on August 12 which left a detective injured, was killed during a “gunfight” in capital's Jurain early yesterday.

Seemingly emboldened by prime minister's remarks about Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Monday, ruling Awami League leaders are now demanding the CJ's resignation.

Western Railway Zone needs over Tk 20 crore to repair around 100km of rail lines damaged by the recent flood in Dinajpur, Rangpur, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram and Thakurgaon, said Bangladesh Railway officials on Monday.

Hospital is her home. She toils away serving patients and sometimes nurses and doctors on request, eats the leftovers of patients and sleeps wherever she finds space to lie down inside the hospital.

Coming down heavily on the chief justice for comparing Bangladesh with Pakistan, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she was not at all scared of “such a threat and this was not tolerable either”.

Everyone thought she was dead and so was kept with dead bodies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. But she survived proving doctors and rescuers wrong.

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday said 75.3 percent of new passport seekers had to bribe police for their clearances.

Ravaging the northern and northeastern Bangladesh, flood now threatens the capital as all its surrounding rivers are showing rising trends.

“We feel for the people of Bangladesh with the amount of rain they have had. There are a lot of people in this country struggling because of the rain so the thoughts are with them.”

After the disappointment of the commercial failure of his first cinemascope Urdu film “Bahana” in the mid-60's, Zahir Raihan wanted to bounce back with “Behula”. But most of the leading actors of Dhaka'i cinema were uninterested in playing the lead. Why would they? The lead was dead for most of the film. But one of his assistant producers, one Razzak, stepped in.

Rail communications of Dhaka with northern and south-western districts have remained suspended since yesterday morning as floodwater washed away soil beneath an approach to a rail bridge on Joydebpur-Bangabandhu bridge route in Kalihati upazila of Tangail.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday announced that the government would provide food assistance to the flood-affected families for the next three months until the next crops are harvested.

Rights activist Sultana Kamal yesterday alleged that lives of people, who live in and around the Sundarbans, are being jeopardised due

Excessive rains and flooding twice in just four months have left most of the roads in a miserable state, which could make people's journey home for Eid-ul-Azha a nightmare. If rain continues and the flood situation doesn't improve shortly, the road networks will be further damaged, compounding woes of travellers. Many roads are currently under floodwater.

Although the water levels in the Teesta, Dharla and Jamuna in the northern districts continued to fall, new areas in Rajshahi and Natore went under floodwater yesterday.

When Australia disembarked in Dhaka on Friday night to mark their first Bangladesh tour after a gap of 11 long years, they were

Some of the observations in the 16th amendment verdict may have been given “out of antipathy” towards the government and parliament although judges are bound by oath not to do anything out of antipathy or affection, Law Commission Chairman Justice ABM Khairul Haque said yesterday.