None of the condemned war criminals -- Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury -- have yet informed the authorities whether they would seek presidential clemency, sources in Dhaka Central Jail said yesterday.

Thousands of job seekers block the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway following the postponement of a recruitment test for Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB).

The lawyers for death row war criminals SQ Chy and Mojaheed are yet to get permission from Dhaka Central Jail authorities to meet their clients.

The Supreme Court rejected the review petitions of Salauddin and Mojaheed, as it did not find any error or illegality in its earlier judgments that upheld their death sentences.

The death reference in a case filed for killing police official Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife reached the High Court yesterday for examining the verdict that sentenced their daughter Oishee Rahman to death.

The jail authorities last night received the copies of the Supreme Court judgments that upheld the death penalty of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for war crimes. It is now for the jail authorities to decide when it will implement the verdicts. Jahangir Kabir, senior superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail, received the copies from acting deputy registrar of the International Crimes Tribunal Md Aftabuzzaman around 8:50pm.

A court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his younger brother in 2011.

A Sylhet court yesterday started trial of four accused in a case for killing 9-year-old schoolboy Abu Sayeed.

The Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal yesterday, for the sixth time, deferred the date to November 25 and 26 for recording

A Sylhet court yesterday placed an accused in the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case on a seven-day remand.

The death reference in the sensational murder case filed over the killing of police official Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife reaches the High Court to examine the verdict that sentenced their daughter Oishee Rahman to death.

At least four members of a family including a minor boy were burnt in an explosion at a house in Fatullah area of Narayanganj.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cancelled her Malta and France tours considering the overall situation both at home and in Europe.

Police and officials of fisheries department in a drive seized 65kg of jatka (hilsa less than 10 inches long) and 1800 metres of current net

A man was killed and three others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over a trivial matter at Dakatpara village in Shibganj upazila of the district on Tuesday night.

The Dhaka University authorities have suspended four of its officials over leaking the results of professional examinations in private medical colleges affiliated with DU before their announcement.

Staging a protest on the court premises, a faction of Narayanganj District Lawyers' Association yesterday demanded fresh remand of Nur Hossain – the recently repatriated prime accused in the Narayanganj seven murder case – for proper investigation.

The first prosecution witness in a war crimes case against eight “Al-Badr men” implicated five of them in the planned abduction and killing of his maternal uncle in Jamalpur during the 1971 Liberation War, saying his grandfather had always blamed a sixth as well.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined four paper mills and a dying factory a total of Tk 34 lakh in Dhaka, Narsingdi and

Customs Intelligence officials seized 82 gold bars, weighing 9.5kg, worth around Tk 4.5 crore from a man at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong yesterday evening.