A Dhaka court yesterday placed three people, including two former owners of e-commerce platform E-orange, on a five-day remand in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk 1,100 crore.

After hearing the writ petition filed by Nakano Eriko, a Japanese national who came to Bangladesh to fight for legal custody of her two daughters, a High Court rule yesterday said the children will remain at Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Victim Support Centre until August 31.

Amid the rising onslaught on private properties, including a place of worship and cemetery belonging to the minorities by land grabbers in Kuakata, the custodian of the town, the mayor himself, has built a kitchen market on public land right next to the Kuakata-Dhaka highway.

An accused in the Xulhaz-Tonoy murder case told a judge that he would prefer death by the firing squad in public, if the court was to give him the death penalty.

A Dhaka tribunal today set September 7 for hearing arguments in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case.

After the writ petition filed by Nakano Eriko, a citizen of Japan who moved to Bangladesh and started a legal battle for custody of her children, a High Court rule today said the two children will remain at the Victim Support Centre of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police till August 31.

A Dhaka tribunal today set August 31 to deliver verdict against eight members of the banned militant group Ansar Al Islam in a case filed over the murders of LGBT activist Xulhaz Mannan and his associate Mahbub Rabby Tonoy in 2016.

A Dhaka court today placed Bijoy Krishna Talukder on a two-day remand in a case filed over storing shots of Moderna vaccines at Sheba Clinic in Chalabon area of Dhaka’s Dakkhinkhan.

Supreme Court chamber judge today stayed for six weeks a High Court verdict that granted bail to Joy Gopal Sarkar, general secretary of Dhaka Wanderers Club, in four separate money laundering cases. He allegedly had links to the illegal casino business.

Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan was shot by Liaqat Ali, former Inspector of Baharchhara Investigation Centre, as per the instruction of former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das, Sinha’s elder sister said in her testimony today.

A woman has alleged that a sub-inspector “took Tk 2.5 lakh” from her home in Dhaka’s Rupnagar area during a drive on Thursday.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against Monir Hossain, widely known as "Golden Monir", in a case filed over possessing firearms.

The High Court today ordered a man to produce his 22-year-old daughter, whom he allegedly confined in his house is Dhaka’s Uttara, in court before September 1.

A Dhaka court placed three people, including two former owners of e-commerce platform E-orange, on a five-day remand in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk 1,100 crore.

A 32-year-old was killed and another was seriously injured in a knife attack by a drug addict in Brahmanbaria town’s Kazipara area last night.

Prosecution has sought death penalty for eight members of the banned militant group Ansar Al Islam, including its military wing commander Major (sacked) Syed Md Ziaul Huq, in a case filed over the murders of LGBT activist Xulhaz Mannan and his associate Mahbub Rabby Tonoy in 2016.

The High Court yesterday questioned the “inaction and apathy” of the authorities to take preventive measures and protect students from bullying at their institutions.

The ACC will inquire into the allegation of amassing illegal wealth by former IG Prisons Brig Gen (retd) Syed Iftekhar Uddin, who was quizzed over corruption at Chattogram Central Jail two years ago.

A judge of Dhaka special judge court has apologised to the High Court for granting bail in an “unusual manner” to Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, in a case filed over recovery of Tk 80 lakh from his Dhaka residence.

The UNO, two police officers and several Ansar men in Barishal have been accused of battery and opening fire with an intent to kill the Barishal city mayor on Wednesday night in two cases filed with a court yesterday.