A Rangpur court yesterday awarded death penalties to five JMB militants for the killing of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi in 2015.

With the ongoing transport strike intensifying and spreading across the country, a number of transport workers yesterday said they called the shutdown with full backing of some top leaders of their association.

Agitating transport workers last night damaged about a dozen vehicles and set fire to a police box and a wrecker, prompting police to

“Enforcing a transport strike against a court verdict is regrettable. If you [protesters] have any grievance against the verdict, place it

The High Court yesterday stayed for six months a government decision to hike gas prices from June 1 in the second phase.

“I'm sorry I'm not with you tonight. My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations who have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the US.”

The High Court yesterday directed the government to stop in 72 hours production and marketing of antibiotics of penicillin and cephalosporin groups, hormones and anti-cancer drugs by 28 companies as those were found substandard and injurious to public health.

Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar have told how government forces gang-raped women, slit people's throats and threw children into burning houses, a UN envoy has said after a mission to neighbouring Bangladesh.

Keeping intact a provision that allows marriage of underage girls and boys in “special circumstances”, the Jatiya Sangsad last night passed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2017 with 18 and 21 as minimum marriageable age for women and men respectively.

As February 28 nears every year, Dorothi sets out to do something she has been doing for almost a decade.

Over a month and a half has elapsed but the health secretary has not issued any circular asking doctors to write prescription in block letters or provide printed prescriptions in compliance with a High Court order issued on January 9.

Detectives yesterday talked to the family of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, slain wife of former SP Babul Akther, in Dhaka in connection with her murder in June last year.

“There will be no discussion with those [transport workers] who went on strike keeping the people hostage.”

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of the constitutional provisions that empower the president to appoint Supreme Court and lower court judges and also to control the appointment, promotion and posting of and disciplinary measures against lower court judges.

The latest gas price hike would put further pressure on local industries and exporters already facing many internal and external challenges, say business leaders and chambers.

Just because a killer bus driver was sentenced to life, transport workers in 10 southern districts yesterday brought road communications to a grinding halt going on strike for an indefinite period.

Road transport workers have started enforcing an indefinite strike in 10 southern districts this morning, five days after a bus driver was sentenced to life imprisonment for his reckless driving killing five people in 2011.

She came to Dhaka from Rajshahi with her mother early yesterday to sit for a test at her college. The would-be doctor was supposed to head back to Rajshahi right after that. Sadia Hasan, 23, a fifth-year student of Dhaka National Medical College, was killed when a bus rammed the CNG-run auto-rickshaw her mother and she was in on North-South Road in Bangshal around 7:00am.

Former Gaibandha-1 lawmaker Col (retd) Abdul Kader Khan had planned, financed, and hired people to have ruling party lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton murdered so that he could retake the constituency, police said citing Kader's confessional statement.

An estimated 64 lakh people in the country suffer from depressive disorder while 69 lakh from anxiety disorders, says a new study of the World Health Organisation (WHO).