The majority of the five Supreme Court judges, who reviewed the death sentence on war crimes convict Delwar Hossain Sayedee, had commuted his sentence to life imprisonment in September last year because a life sentence appeared to them to be "proportionate to the gravity of the crime" he committed, according to the full verdict released yesterday.

A number of 752 women were raped and 94 others became victims of rape attempts in 2015, according to a report of Ain o Salish Kendra.

Slain blogger Rajib's father rejects the verdict of his son’s murder alleging that it was "dictated".

In the first verdict of blogger killings, a Dhaka court has handed death to two, life term jail to another, five-year jail term for Ansarullah Bangla Team chief Mufti Jashim and various jail terms to five others for killing blogger Rajib Haider in February 2013.

A cop was injured as criminals hurled two crude bombs at a police van in RN road in Jessore town yesterday.

Two people, including a madrasa student, were stabbed to death in Sylhet and Dinajpur districts yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail and sent four accomplices of Sohel Rana to jail after their surrender before it in connection with a murder case filed over the Rana Plaza collapse in Savar in April 2013.

The country's first ever partisan municipality polls ended amid reports of violence, irregularities, suspension of voting at 38 centres of 18 municipalities and boycott of at least 19 candidates.

The High Court directed the government to immediately stop demolition of four ancient buildings dating back to the Mughal era in Old Dhaka today.

Elections to 234 municipalities have begun, marking the start of the country's maiden local government polls on partisan lines.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for six weeks a High Court order that granted bail to two accused of a case filed

The Supreme Court is likely to release its full verdict within few days on the appeal of war criminal Delawar Hossain

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday asked the prosecution to submit formal charges, if any, against six

Rapid Action Battalion members arrest 11 alleged human traffickers in Paltan area of Dhaka and rescue two female trafficking victims.

Leader of the Opposition in parliament Raushan Ershad humiliates journalists saying most of them chose the profession due to lack of employment.

Two prosecution witnesses in a case against eight alleged Jamalpur AL-Badr men over crimes against humanity yesterday testified hearing that five of them were involved in the killing of at least 17 people during the 1971 Liberation War.

Verdict of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case against the chief of militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team and seven former students of a private university will be delivered on Thursday.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and immigration police handed over three Bangladeshi teenage girls to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)

Townspeople formed a human chain near Kurigram Central Shaheed Minar and brought out a procession yesterday, demanding capital

Bangladesh exports about six and a half lakh people this year in manpower that included some positive trends in the business, report says.