Rajuk’s building inspector sent to jail after he surrenders before a Dhaka court case filed over Rana Plaza collapse.

The body of an unidentified man, aged around 35, was found floating in a pond of Shahiduallah Hall of Dhaka University (DU) yesterday afternoon.

Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique filed a petition with the Supreme Court yesterday, challenging a High Court verdict that had upheld cancellation of his candidacy for Tangail-4 by-polls.

No arrest was made till yesterday in connection with the murders of a man and his son in Satkania upazila of Chittagong two days ago.

Two people were arrested yesterday following a case filed for allegedly abducting an 11-year-old girl on Thursday and raping her in captivity till Friday in Polashbari area of Ashulia, outside the capital.

A Dhaka court yesterday again directed police to submit a probe report by March 3 into a defamation allegation against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and party leader Goyeshwar Chandra Roy for their comments on the Liberation War martyrs.

Even a few days back, boarding a crowded bus amid heavy vehicular movement in the mad streets of Dhaka was a huge challenge for the female commuters, who could hardly imagine getting any help from traffic police with this hurdle.

A central database comprising of different types of information about prisoners across the country was launched at the Rapid Action Battalion Headquarters in the capital's Uttara yesterday.

Police are not arresting a Narayanganj councillor of ward 17 although he has been accused in a case of masterminding the abduction of a 19-year-old and is often going to his workplace, alleged the victim's father yesterday.

A freedom fighter in Mymensingh’s Trishal sues a running lawmaker and 24 others for crimes committed against humanity during 1971 Liberation War.

Former Supreme Court Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik sends a letter requesting the chief justice to accept all the judgments and orders he wrote after his retirement.

Constitution and legal experts at a roundtable yesterday called for enacting an unambiguous law in line with the constitution for the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court (SC) so as to ensure the judiciary's independence.

A court here yesterday sent 10 ruling party men to jail in four vandalism cases.

Police foil an attempt of freedom fighters’ children to lay siege to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan residence protesting her remark regarding the number of Liberation War martyrs.

Highway police yesterday morning seized a truck laden with 10 tonnes of banned polythene, worth about Tk 15 lakh, in 105 sacks and arrested two people.

A court here on Wednesday sentenced a young man to life imprisonment for raping a girl in 2012. The convict is Collins Sheikh, 24.

Counsel for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday concluded cross-examining the investigation officer and the last witness of the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case in her absence.

The High Court has started hearing on the death reference and appeals in the case filed for assassinating Awami

The Supreme Court yesterday directed the lower court concerned to finish the trial proceedings of Feni's Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque killing case within six months.

Alongside workers, transport owners will face punishment for legal violations from now on, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday, citing from a newly drafted law styled Road Transport Act.