The High Court today issued a contempt of court rule against the health secretary, director generals of health directorate and drug administration, and two others on charge of ignoring its directives issued in 2017 for stopping production of substandard antibiotics.

A Dhaka court today sent Model and former TV presenter Faria Mahbub Piyasha to jail after rejecting both the remand and bail prayers in two separate cases filed under the Narcotics Control Act.

Counterterrorism officials claimed to have arrested three members of the militant group “Neo-JMB”, including chief of its military wing and key bomb expert, from Dhaka’s Kafrul area.

The High Court today wanted to know the progress in establishing E-judiciary in the country.

The High Court today issued a fresh summons order, asking two investigation officers (IOs) of a child murder case in Bogura to appear before it and explain the allegation of forcibly taking confessional statement from the deceased’s brother, who is also a minor.

Police yesterday detained an inspector, three sub-inspectors and two assistant sub-inspectors of the Detective Branch of police for their alleged involvement in a robbery case.

An assistant sub-inspector of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) was closed on Monday on charges of sexually harassing a woman at a police outpost.

A Rajshahi University teacher and a Swechchhasebak leader of Natore were accused yesterday in a defamation suit for terming a local MP’s father Razakar.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College to immediately admit 19 twins to first grade, as their 19 fellow siblings have already been admitted to the institution through lottery.

Three days after a five-year-old was abducted from the capital’s Khilgaon area, police yesterday recovered the child’s decomposed body from an under-construction building in the area.

A Chattogram court yesterday rejected a bail petition of former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter over the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu.

Eminent citizens yesterday issued a statement, demanding arrest and trial of those responsible for vandalising and ransacking several houses, shops and temples of the Hindu community in Khulna’s Rupsha upazila on Saturday.

A Jashore court sent a youth to jail after he was produced before it on charge of raping a disabled girl in Sadar upazila.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed actor Pori Moni and her associate Ashraful Islam Dipu on a fresh two-day remand in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.

Police yesterday detained an inspector, three sub-inspectors and two assistant sub-inspectors of the Detective Branch of police for their alleged involvement in a robbery case.

The High Court directed the authorities concerned to immediately admit 19 children to class one at Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, whose as many twin siblings have already been admitted to the same institution through lottery.

Organisations working on the rights of persons with disabilities (PWD) will take legal action against those involved in a tele-fiction “Ghotona Shotto”, in which children with special needs were insensitively portrayed.

A Dhaka court today placed Masudul Hasan Jisan, close associate of model and former TV presenter Faria Mahbub Piyasha, on a fresh two-day remand in a case filed against him with Bhatara Police Station under the Special Powers Act.

Madubi Akter Mukti alias Neela, the ex-wife of Supreme Court lawyer Moaz Ariff, son of former attorney general Hassan Ariff, has recently filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on Moaz Ariff to provide their two and a half-month-old daughter’s custody to Neela.

A court in Chattogram today rejected the bail petition of former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter in connection with the Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case.