KHAGRACHHARI:  A man has been awarded death penalty for pouring Kerosene over his wife, which caused her death at Dighinala upazila of Khagrachari in 2009. Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal as well as of District and Sessions Judge’s court Md. Alamgir Hasan

CHATTOGRAM: A Chattogram court has sentenced five persons to death for killing 24 Awami League activists and attempting to kill AL president Sheikh Hasina at a rally in Laldighi of Chattogram city.  The court of Chattogram District and Session Judge Md Ismail Hossain delivered the

DHAKA: The government has appointed ninety-seven new assistant judges as per recommendation of Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission. The law ministry on Sunday (January 20) issued a gazette notification in this regard. According to the notification,   the new assistant judges

DHAKA:  The High Court has granted four weeks of bail to Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman in a case filed over the death of Naimul Abrar Rahat, a student of Dhaka Residential Model College. But, he will have to surrender to the lower court when this term expires. The court also

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) fixed Monday (January 20) for hearing a bail petition of Prothom Alo editor and publisher Matiur Rahman and five others in a case filed over the death of Naimul Abrar Rahat, a student of Dhaka Residential Model College. The court also directed authorities

DHAKA: After long 30 years of Sagira Morshed murder, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has revealed cause of the murder and is set to press charges against four accused in the case. PBI will submit 309-page charge sheet documents to court on Thursday (January 16), said PBI chief DIG

DHAKA: The four bodies of Bangladeshi nationals who drowned after capsize of their boat in Lake Van in eastern Turkey on December 25 are set to arrive home on Friday (January 17). Bangladesh embassy to Turkey issued a press release in this regard on Wednesday (January 15). A boat

DHAKA: The trial proceedings against BNP-nominated mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) election Ishraque Hossain have begun in a case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam of the Special Judge Court-4 of Dhaka framed charges against

BARGUNA: A Barguna court has fixed January 26 hear a petition filed seeking its order to cancel bail to Ayesha Siddiqa Minni granted by High Court in a case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif. Minni’s lawyer Mahbubul Bari Aslam submitted a statement, in response to a

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has fixed January 21 to take Fahad murder case into cognizance and receive charge sheet thereof in presence of the accused. The hearing will be held at a court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on that day, Taposh Kumar Paul, a lawyer on behalf of the state,

DHAKA:  A Dhaka court placed a Sub Inspector (SI) of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on a two-day remand for allegedly robbing Taka 5.5 lakhs. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ashok Imam gave the remand order for Rashedul Alam as Investigation Officer (IO) of the case

DHAKA: The High Court has fixed Tuesday (Jan 14) to deliver its verdict on the writ petition filed seeking its directive on Election Commission to defer the Dhaka city corporations polls, slated for December 30. The HC bench of Justice JBM Hasan and Justice Md. Khairul Alam gave this

DHAKA: The High Court will hear on Monday (Jan 13) the writ petition filed seeking its directive on Election Commission to defer the Dhaka city corporations polls, slated for December 30. The hearing of the petition, placed before a new HC bench of Justice JBM Hasan and Justice Md.

BARISHAL:  A man who raped a woman on false promise of marriage in Hizla upazila of Barishal district was sentenced to life in prison by a Barishal court on Sunday (January 12).   Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Md. Shamim Azad pronounced the verdict

BRAHMANBARIA: A district court gave death penalty to four persons for killing a businessman of Chawkbazar area of old parts of Dhaka city. District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Safiul Azam of Brahmanbaria court handed down the verdict on Monday (January 6). The death-raw convicts

DHAKA: A Dhaka court directed police to publish an advertisement in newspapers in order to produce the four fugitives before court in the BUET student Abrar Fahad murder case. Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Kaisarul Islam of Dhaka court passed the order on Sunday (January 5) after

DHAKA: A Dhaka court sent three leaders of Muktijuddha Mancha to jail after three days of remand over attack on Vice President (VP) of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) Nurul Haque Nur and his supporters on December 22. Three of them  were identified as- General

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced ten persons to death (Dec 24) for killing medicine trader Mazharul Islam Paltan at Nandail in Mymensingh. The death-row convicts are Ekalas Uddin alias Jewel, Abul Kashem Fakir alias Bachchu Member, Abul Kalam Azad alias Pinu doctor, Chandan,

DHAKA: A legal notice has been served to the Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and its secretary asking them to offer an unconditional apology to the nation within 24 hours for including the names of freedom fighters in the list of Razakars. S M Zulfiqure Ali, a

DHAKA: The government handed over a cheque of Tk 99, 217, 3074 as the cost of Moon Cinema Hall and its land to the Managing Director of Bangladesh Italian Marble Works Ltd Maksudul Alam. Moon Cinema Hall is located on Waiz Ghat Road in Old Dhaka. The government handed over the