A writ petition was filed yesterday with the High Court challenging the legality of the government’s decision to remove Ahsan H Mansur from the post of Bangladesh Bank governor and appoint Md Mostaqur Rahman in his place.

A case was filed yesterday in connection with the killing of a female teacher of Islamic University in Kushtia.

Victims of grave human rights violations and their families yesterday urged the government to retain the enhanced powers granted to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), warning that any move to dilute the new ordinance would render the rights body “toothless” once again.

The Farmers’ Card will be launched on a pre-pilot basis by April 14 this year, with around 25,000 farmers in nine upazilas of eight districts set to get the benefit.

Jamaat-e-Islami does not oppose the reciprocal trade agreement with the US at this moment, arguing that certain aspects of the deal are important for Bangladesh and thus should continue.

Bangladesh yesterday secured two LNG cargoes from the international spot market after failing to attract bidders for two consecutive days, although at more than double the normal rate.

Fifteen individuals, including late BNP chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia and late Milestone College teacher Maherin Chowdhury, and five institutions have been selected for this year’s Swadhinata Padak, the country’s highest state honour.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday urged the BNP-led government to place anti-corruption and good governance at the top of its reform agenda, saying visible control and prevention of corruption is a precondition for delivering its wider pledges.

The government has extended the upcoming Eid‑ul‑Fitr holidays by a day to include March 18.

Experts and politicians have raised alarm over the fact that women made up only around four percent of the candidates in the 13th national election.

Many local landowners feel they are not being compensated fairly

Many travellers from 21 districts will use the Dhaka-Tangail-Jamuna Bridge highway, widely known as the gateway to the north.

Eight Fire Service units currently working to control fire

Deceased was organising secretary of Debiganj upazila AL

The High Court yesterday granted bail to senior journalist Anis Alamgir in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

At least 10 people were killed and 476 injured in 104 incidents of post-election violence across the country between February 13 and 28, according to rights organisation Odhikar.

Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded that Syeda Rizwana Hasan, a former adviser to the interim government, and Khalilur Rahman, former security adviser who currently serves as the country’s foreign minister, be questioned and put on trial over allegations of “election engineering”.

A haunting message scrawled on the wall of a secret detention cell has revealed the grim reality of enforced disappearances, a survivor told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday.

The government has decided to place 133 ordinances -- issued during the tenure of the interim government -- before Parliament.

Over 10 lakh cases are currently pending in the country’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunals, with over 10,000 rape cases remaining unresolved for more than five years.