Before her father disappeared, Rayta was a bright and cheerful girl. Now she is often depressed and spends most of her time at a corner of her home.

Police yesterday filed a sedition case against BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury for allegedly hatching a conspiracy with Israel's Likud Party and its intelligence agency Mossad to oust the government.

An education ministry probe has found that the Piyar Sattar Latif High School committee had forced headteacher Shyamal Kanti Bhakta to resign with unproven allegation that he had hurt the religious sentiment of the Muslims.

Remember last year's Bollywood blockbuster Bajrangi Bhaijaan? Where its protagonist tries to take a mute six-year-old Pakistani girl back to her homeland to reunite her with her family?

Bangladesh has filed a case with an international arbitration court against Niko Resources Bangladesh Ltd, claiming Tk 9,250 crore in compensation for destruction of properties and gas reserves at Chhatak gas field in fire more than a decade ago.

It will be fair to say that Bangladesh cricket has not seen the likes of Mustafizur Rahman in its short history. It will be a little more contentious to say that the world has not seen a bowler like him in recent times.

Wheat blast disease, which struck the crop fields in southwestern Bangladesh this year in its first outbreak in Asia, came from Brazil, according to two scientists in Switzerland.

Dhaka dwellers were stuck on city streets for hours on end in the scorching heat yesterday, mainly because of a Dhaka North City Corporation event and a procession of the education ministry. Standstill traffic were everywhere in the capital.

The Supreme Court's latest landmark verdict against police's century-old discretionary powers concerning arrest, detention and remand is a bold judicial pronouncement in favour of people's liberty and fundamental rights.

Police personnel from different tiers have welcomed the Supreme Court's landmark verdict on police's powers concerning arrest, detention in custody and remand, but said the provision for making arrests on suspicion is necessary for tackling crimes.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has rejected the allegation against the government of “committing mass killing and crimes against humanity”.

The government must pay Tk 50 lakh in compensation to a man for his wrongful conviction in a rape case 12 years ago, the High Court ruled yesterday. Abdul Jalil of Char Fashion in Bhola was only 15 when the rape incident took place in 2001.

The government has decided to print pre-primary level textbooks in five ethnic languages for children of minority groups in school from the next academic year, said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid.

The shocking death of private university student Shamim Reza Rubel in police custody 18 years ago had triggered a storm of protest in the country, prompting some rights bodies to launch a legal battle against police's discretionary power to pick up people on suspicion and torture of arrestees in remand.

The police have finally lost the century-old wide discretionary powers concerning arrest, detention in custody and remand, as the Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court verdict against the arbitrary use of their sweeping authority. The HC verdict delivered on April 7, 2003 asked the government to amend some provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) of 1898, which provided the police with the controversial powers, for their inconsistency with the constitution.

The government today is going to sign the first memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the Payra Deep-sea Port project with Belgian company Jan De Nul for an estimated $2 billion capital dredging and maintenance dredging.

Six-year-old Mohammad Yusuf was holding a pair of sandals of his mother at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, hoping she would put them on soon.

Zobed Ali Biswas served 13 years in jail even though he was acquitted in a case. He had to endure imprisonment since 2003 and nothing could bring back the years he lost.

Eminent jurists and human rights activists hailed yesterday's Supreme Court verdict, expressing the hope that it would stop the misuse of power by law enforcers regarding arrest, detention in custody, remand and interrogation.

Rocky would never get back his brother who died in police custody about two years back. But he was happy yesterday as the country's top court came up with a verdict that he hoped would stop custodial deaths and thus none else would have to suffer the agony of losing dear ones.