The High Court in the full text of a verdict has upheld five years jail sentence of BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid in a case filed for evading tax while importing a luxury car, observing that the trial court has rightly found him guilty and convicted and sentenced him correctly.

The High Court today allowed beleaguered e-commerce platform Evaly to withdraw Tk 2.35 crore -- deposited at Southeast Bank and City Bank -- for running the company, including paying salaries of its board of directors formed by the court.

A Dhaka court today again asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit -- by February 2 -- the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka's Gulshan.

A Gazipur court yesterday placed the key accused on a three-day remand in the Sayeda Ghaffar Khaleque murder case.

The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances should be allowed to visit Bangladesh to conduct an impartial investigation into the state of enforced disappearances, said victims’ families.

Police recovered the body of a woman, aged around 21, at a house in Kathgora area of Ashulia in Savar today.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested an accused in half a dozen criminal cases from Rangunia upazila of Chattogram.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said that a circuit bench of High Court division will be set up in Chattogram city within this year as the chief justice has taken it to his consideration.

Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Prof Akhtaruzzaman has condemned the murder of the university's retired professor Sayeda Ghaffar Khaleque and demanded justice for her.

“MP-ministers make fun of our tears. They say our husbands married again and moved away and that there is no enforced disappearance in the country.”

Prof Tajmeri SA Islam, adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, has been sent to jail in a case filed over obstructing police from performing duties during an anti- government demonstration of the party in the capital’s Uttara in 2018.

Five people were arrested in Natore on Thursday night over the gang rape of a teenage girl.

Police yesterday recovered the body of retired Dhaka University Professor Sayeda Gaffar Khaleque from a bush in Gazipur’s Kashimpur area, three days after she was killed.

The abandoned staff quarters of the Deputy Post Master General’s Office in Tangail has turned into a den for criminals and drug abusers, ruining the environment of the area.

Members of Coast Guard Bangladesh have seized 2.5kg crystal meth worth Tk 12.50 crore from Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar.

Saida Gaffar, a retired professor of the Institute of Nutrition and Food Science at the Dhaka University, was found dead near her under-construction house in Gazipur today two days after she went missing.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified young woman from Chakbari Beel (water body) in Singair upazila of Manikganj today.

Two cases have been filed in connection with the death of three people by mob beating, suspecting them to be robbers, in Narayanganj's Araihazar upazila yesterday.

Prof Dr Tajmeri S Islam, advisor of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, was sent to jail yesterday in a case filed over obstructing police from performing duties.

North Korea launched at least seven attacks on cryptocurrency platforms that extracted nearly $400 million worth of digital assets last year, one of its most successful years on record, blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said in a new report.