Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday said trials of extrajudicial killings must be held if any complaint is lodged with a court in this regard.

With the killers of Sohagi Jahan Tonu yet to be arrested even three months after her brutal murder, Tonu's mother has alleged that her family is kept “under watch”.

Though unusual, fishermen are catching hilsa in Hakaluki Haor, the largest wetland in the country.

The key suspect in blogger-writer Avijit Roy murder, who was killed in a “shootout” on Sunday, had been missing since being kidnapped by some unidentified persons in Jessore four months back, according to his father. Besides, there is confusion regarding his identity. According to police, he was Sakib alias Sharif alias Saleh alias Arif alias Hadi-1. But his father Abul Kalam Azad said his name is Md Mukul Rana.

The BNP yesterday demanded judicial probe into all the recent extrajudicial killings, including that of Golam Faizullah Fahim who had carried out a machete attack on a Madaripur college teacher.

The price of garlic has remained high since the beginning of Ramadan.

India yesterday came out in full support of the Sheikh Hasina government for the drive against militancy, saying the Bangladesh prime minister has taken “strong steps” to deal with the issue.

Trucks carrying Indian goods reached Tripura from Ashuganj port yesterday making the long-cherished idea of transhipment into reality.

Oh, no! This was how most of us must have reacted when Golam Faizullah Fahim, the machete attacker of Madaripur college teacher, was killed in "crossfire" with police in the district Saturday.

Human rights violations ultimately affect an individual or a community, not the whole nation on any particular situation. It might be that the individual is aggrieved and suffering. When the system overall is faulty, it leads to injustice. The question is whether and how we are addressing these two different dimensions of the human rights violations.

A few days before leaving home, Golam Faizullah Fahim, who was killed in “crossfire” on Saturday, started spending time with a youth after prayers at a Dakkhinkhan mosque.

It was a curious case of chance encounter if we go by the police version. Sharif, who according to law enforcers directly took part in the killing of blogger-writer Avijit Roy, had a bounty of Tk 5 lakh on his head.

He might have had a vital clue to the mystery over secret killings that have been roiling the country for the last couple of years. Fleeing after hacking a Hindu college teacher in Madaripur, he was caught by locals and handed over to police. It was the second time that such an assailant was captured.

Four pints of the rare “Bombay blood group” reached Dhaka from Mumbai yesterday to save the life of a Bangladeshi youth who had a

Experts yesterday called on the government to take steps to dispel the uncertainty among investors, fix infrastructure bottlenecks and

A large cache of firearms and ammunition has been recovered from a canal at Uttara in Bangladesh capital, Dhaka.

Unidentified criminals shot dead a college student and injured three others in Batogram village in the district's Sonaimuri upazila early

Tanners are likely to ask the government to give them six to eight more months to relocate their factories from the capital's Hazaribagh area to Savar Tannery Industrial Estate.

India yesterday said it has taken up with Bangladeshi authorities the death threat to a priest of the Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka by

The weeklong special drive against militants ended yesterday with 17 suspected militants being arrested in the last 24 hours of the countrywide crackdown.