Independent candidate for Barishal-5 constituency Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah today filed a petition with the Supreme Court chamber judge seeking to reverse its order that barred him from contesting in the upcoming national election

A Dhaka court today framed charges against 213 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations in two cases filed in Keraniganj over political violence

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan today hoped that the culprits who set fire to three carriages of the Mohanganj Express in Dhaka yesterday, leaving four dead, are identified through proper probe and put on trial for punishment

Unidentified criminals have removed fishplates and sleepers of a rail track in Birampur Railway Station of Dinajpur last night, disrupting rail communication on the Dhaka-Panchagarh route for two hours.

BNP today announced a series of mass contact programmes from tomorrow and a nationwide dawn-to-dusk blockade on December 24.

Unknown people were sued for the killing of four people in an arson attack on Mohanganj Express train in Dhaka yesterday

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate officials detained a woman along with 8.2 kg gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka last night

At least seven workers lost their lives and 29 others were injured while working at shipbreaking yards in Chattogram in 10 months this year.

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday denounced arson attacks as a means of advancing political agendas or protests by political parties.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman yesterday said police have learnt that arsonists in the guise of train passengers carried out the attack on a train in Dhaka’s Tejgaon, that left four people dead.

Mohammad Rassel, the former chief executive officer of the controversial e-commerce platform Evaly,  was yesterday released from Kashimpur prison on bail.

Another 32 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat and their front organisations were sentenced to different jail terms yesterday in two cases filed in 2015 and 2018 over political violence in the capital.

At least 17 people were injured in clashes between supporters of the ruling Awami League-nominated candidates and independent aspirants in Faridpur, Jamalpur, and Jashore yesterday.

A hired worker of Palli Bidyut Samity was killed and two others were injured as one of their fellows allegedly attacked them over a trivial matter in Patuakhali yesterday.

A man died and his wife was injured in a collision between two motorcycles in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that on December 13 granted bail to expelled Jubo League leader SM Golam Kibria Shamim, known as GK Shamim, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in an arms case.

Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal yesterday sentenced 13 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami to life term imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of Natore’s Jubo League leader Khairul Islam in 2013.

A Dhaka court yesterday extended till January 23 the deadline for submitting the probe report of a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012.

Four people -- including son of a local union parishad member -- were sued today for raping a woman in Natore’s Naldanga upazila.

A five-day-old girl was stolen from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Chattogram Medical College Hospital this evening