The Supreme Court stays bail for Shakila Farjana, a lawyer accused of militant financing, until February 29 in two cases.

The Supreme Court expresses dissatisfaction over prosecution and investigators dealing with the war crimes cases for their ‘incompetence’.

Students of a private university block Dhaka’s key thoroughfare Mirpur Road in protest against death of a student in road crash.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against former Bangladesh cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife Jesmine Jahan Nrittya in a case filed for allegedly torturing their 11-year-old domestic help.

A fourth prosecution witness yesterday linked former Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP lawmaker Shakhawat Hossain and his accomplices to the killing of Chadtulla Gazi of Chingra village in Jessore's Keshabpur upazila during the Liberation War in 1971.

Two police probes have found two additional superintendents of police and 11 other personnel of the force guilty of being negligent and incompetent in stopping the firing that killed four people during a mass protest in Tangail last year.

When Nayantara was requested to speak a few words about the killing of her elder brother, a Hindu priest, she took the microphone and described him as someone having no enemy.

Five youths, who were arrested on charges of gang-raping a teenage girl in a house in Dakshin Khan area of the capital on Sunday, have been placed on a two-day remand.

The Daily Janakantha Editor Atiqullah Khan Masud, Advisory Editor Toab Khan and Executive Editor Swadesh Roy yesterday were summoned to appear at a Dhaka court on March 21 to face defamation charges.

A upazila parishad chairman in the district has been suspended as he was charge-sheeted in a sabotage case filed in 2013.

Detectives Branch (DB) of police arrested eight robbers impersonating DB personnel from Jatrabari in the capital on Sunday evening.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to Supreme Court lawyer Shakila Farjana in two cases filed for her alleged involvement in financing a militant outfit, clearing the way for her release from jail.

The Supreme Court yesterday refused to accept the explanation of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on his comment about the judiciary as the relevant affidavit did not have his signature.

Five people including two suspects of Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team who were arrested in the capital's Badda on Friday were taken on remand yesterday.

A Chittagong court yesterday rejected the bail petition of businessman Nur Mohammad, the prime accused in a case filed over the seizure of liquid cocaine at Chittagong port last year.

Detectives arrest eight alleged members of a robber gang in Matuail area of Jatrabari in Dhaka.

Police have claimed detention of three people in connection with the Debiganj temple attack in Panchagarh where a Hindu priest was killed and a devotee shot yesterday. Two among them are said to be members of banned militant outfit JMB and the other a Jamaat-e-Islami activist.

A mobile court yesterday fined four people Tk 5,000 each for carrying jatka (hilsa less than 10 inches long) in a pickup in Piarpur area of

Police in overnight drives arrested three alleged Shibir men with firearms in Chittagong yesterday.

Seven people have been jailed for arranging marriage of two underage girls in Pabna and Jessore districts.