The advisory council yesterday approved in principle the draft Supreme Court Secretariat Ordinance, 2025, aimed at ensuring full separation of the judiciary from the executive branch of the state.

A young man who was shot multiple times during the July uprising in Dhaka’s Rampura testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday, describing how police opened fire on him as he tried to save himself while hanging from the ledge of a building.

The High Court yesterday blasted the government-formed taskforce for again failing to submit its full-fledged probe report in connection with the murders of journalists Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi.

As part of the ongoing typhoid vaccination campaign across Bangladesh, at least 1.7 crore children have been vaccinated as of Wednesday.

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Md Habibur Rahman, a freedom fighter of Sector-9 during the Liberation War, passed away on October 20 in Dhaka. He was 76, said a press release.

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Mohammad Yusuf had been serving on contractual basis

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Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman yesterday urged the International Crimes Tribunal-1 to hand the highest punishment to deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.

The interim government is examining the scope for partially implementing the new pay scale for public sector employees.

A youth was killed and several others were injured in crude bomb blasts during a late-night clash between two groups over control of the drug trade in Geneva Camp in the capital’s Mohammadpur area early yesterday.

Opposing the stance of Jamaat-e-Islami and the National Citizen Party, the BNP yesterday said the chief adviser has no authority to issue a constitutional or executive order to give the July charter legal recognition, arguing that such a move would exceed the government’s powers.

The government is planning to relax key labour law requirements, significantly lowering the entry barrier for a trade union in any establishment.

The Anti-Corruption Commission is set to gain authority to investigate corruption involving Bangladeshi citizens both at home and abroad, as well as foreign nationals residing in the country.

The advisory council yesterday approved major amendments to the Representation of the People Order, 1972, making it mandatory for candidates contesting polls under an alliance to use the symbol of their own party, not that of the coalition leader.

Just eight months after its formation, Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad (BGCS) has been dissolved and reconstituted under a new name “Jatiyo Chhatro Shokti”.

Jamaat-e-Islami lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir yesterday told the Supreme Court that a dictatorial and totalitarian regime had been established in the country through the cancellation of the non-party caretaker government system.

Police have sought to clear marketing professional and actor Iresh Zaker of charges in a case filed over the killing of BNP activist Mahfuz Alam Shraban, linked to the July uprising.

Critically ill patients in Habiganj are being forced to pay high fares to private ambulance operators for emergency transfers to Sylhet or Dhaka, while two government ambulances meant to serve them sit idle and in disrepair.