Amatullah Bushra, who was arrested following the death of Fardin Noor, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (Buet), has to stay in jail till January 8 (Sunday) as a Dhaka court set that date to pass the order on her bail petition.

The High Court today stayed for two months a lower court order that granted bail to online casino kingpin Salim Prodhan in a case filed over amassing Tk 57.79 crore illegally and laundering about Tk 22 crore.

Brahmanbaria District Bar Association has announced to boycott court activities for three days demanding removal of two judges, including the district judge, and Nazir.

The High Court today summoned Brahmanbaria Bar Association president and two other lawyers, directing them to appear on January 17 for misbehaving and scolding the judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 in Brahmanbaria and for creating chaos in the courtroom on January 2.

A Dhaka court today sentenced five people to life in prison for killing Dhaka University student Monirul Islam Bipu in the capital's Demra in 2004.

The High Court today ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to conduct an enquiry into the allegation against Poton Traders, a contracting firm, of embezzling 72,000 tonnes of imported chemical fertiliser for which the government lost Tk 582 crore.

A Dhaka court will hear today the bail petition of Amatullah Bushra, the prime accused in the case filed over the killing of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash.

Mehnaz (not her real name), a student of Chittagong University, was sexually harassed by a group of men on her campus a few months ago.

Forty-two eminent citizens of the country demanded that the government take steps to bring to book those from Lama Rubber Industry who “recently committed arson attack” at a Mro village in Bandarban, and punish those who backed the attackers.

Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury visited Kapasgola City Corporation Girls High School yesterday, two days after the headmaster was transferred after students raised allegations of sexual harassment against him.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a rickshaw-van puller in Faridpur’s Madhukhali upazila.

A Dhaka court yesterday once again extended the deadline for submitting the probe report of the Sagar-Runi murder case. The new deadline is  March 5.

President Abdul Hamid today urged the police as well as people of all classes and professions to build up a social movement against drugs.

A Dhaka court today allowed BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi to take his LLM (Master's) examinations inside the jail.

A Dhaka court today extended till March 5 the deadline for submitting the probe report of a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.

The Coast Guard has recovered 14 firearms, 486 bullets, and 20,000 yaba pills during a drive at Nafnadi of Teknaf upazila.

A Lalmonirhat court yesterday sentenced three men to life imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of a battery-run auto-rickshaw driver in September 2020.

A Narsingdi court yesterday sent a former union parishad chairman to jail in a case filed against him earlier in the day under the Arms Act.

Sylhet Cyber Tribunal yesterday sentenced Rakesh Roy, a leader of Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mahajote, to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over “hurting religious sentiment and issuing a death threat” to the prime minister through Facebook posts.

A Chattogram court today granted bail to former superintendent of police (SP) Babul Akter's father and brother in a case filed under Digital Security Act (DSA).