The High Court today scraped a lower court verdict that had sentenced former BNP minister Nazmul Huda to 12 years' imprisonment in an extortion case.

East West University students clash with police during demonstration protesting VAT on tuition fees. Badda-Rampura road blockaded for half-an-hour.

Stressing that education is a basic right, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says children must be enrolled in Class-I without any written admission test.

The High Court yesterday rejected a writ petition that sought its directive on the chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council not to issue a gazette notification on the results of the council's elections held on August 26.

The Election Commission-appointed enumerators will start going door-to-door in Dhaka metropolitan area from today to collect data of citizens to update the electoral roll and prepare National Identity (NID) cards.

A former municipality mayor and an incumbent councillor of Bandarban were arrested yesterday on charge of making derogatory comments on Bangabandhu

A man was killed and at least 25 others were injured in clashes over land disputes in Sylhet and Lalmonirhat districts on Friday night.

It is in the distant past that the landlord of Atia, Said Khan Panee, set his mind to the task of building a mosque on the bank of the

The election to Bangladesh Bar Council, the licencing and regulatory body for lawyers, will be held today.

Nine civil society and rights organisations yesterday launched a campaign, "Women Count", aiming at creating awareness among people

The Election Commission (EC) yesterday requested the public administration ministry to withdraw an EC project's deputy director while a

Bodies of three fetuses are found from a canal in Mymensingh town.

The Supreme Court receives the video recording of a private satellite channel Ekattor TV on a report and talk show on conversation between two judges.

President Abdul Hamid calls his Indian counterpart over phone to inquire about the health condition of his wife now undergoing treatment at Army Hospital there.

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified man, aged about 40, from a field in Sujanagar upazila of the district yesterday.

With the political crisis over the mode of a polls-time cabinet still unresolved, the High Court has come up with two formulas for the interim government to assist the Election Commission in holding the next two parliamentary elections.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 decides to try six accused from Jamalpur in absentia for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.

Four Bangladesh nationals are killed and four other injured in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in Saudi Arabia.

The election of panel mayors of Chittagong City Corporation will be held at Nagar Bhaban on August 20.

Students for the first time will elect their representatives of students' cabinets through elections to be held at over 1,000 secondary