DHAKA: The High Court has issued a rule asking the government why it should not be directed to take necessary steps for setting up breastfeeding corners at government and autonomous offices, shopping malls, airports, bus stops and railway stations across the country. The HC bench of

DHAKA: Expelled Dhaka South unit Jubo League President Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat was sent to jail after 10-day remand in two cases filed under the Arms Act and Narcotics Control Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Baki Billah gave the order on Thursday (Oct 24). Investigation

CHATTOGRAM: Police are conducting raids houses in various areas under Bakalia Thana of Chattogram on Tuesday (October 22) to nab people of Islami Chhatra Shibir. Sources said a number of Shibir activists were detained from Bogarbill area of Bakalia on Monday (October 21). With

JOYPURHAT: A court here awarded death penalty to seven people for killing housewife Arati Rani after rape in Akkelpur upazila of the district.  The court also fined Tk 5 lakh each to two of the convicts and Tk one lakh to five others.   Judge Dr ABM Mahmudul Haque of Joypurhat

SUNAMGANJ: A Sunamganj court placed brutally-murdered five-year-old child Tuhin’s father and two uncles on remand in the case filed with Derai Police Station in the district. Shyam Kanto Sinha, judge of the Senior Judicial Court granted the remand order on Monday (October 21).

DHAKA: A court here awarded death penalty to twelve people for killing Mobarak Hossain Bhuiyan, a member of Association of Assistants to Lawyers of Dhaka Bar. Judge Md Monir Kamal of Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 on Monday (Oct 21) handed down the verdict.  The court also fined Tk

DHAKA:  A Dhaka court sent Ward Councillor Habibur Rahman Mizan to jail after   seven-day remand in a case lodged over Money- Laundering Prevention Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tofajjal Hossen on Sunday (October 20) gave the order as Investigation officer and CID inspector

FARIDPUR:  A district court gave death penalty to four persons for killing a grocer in Bhanga upazila of the district in 2017. Additional District and Sessions Judge Kamrunnahar Begum handed down the verdict in presence of the three convicts on Sunday (October 20). The convicts

DHAKA: The government has appointed nine new additional judges to the High Court division of country’s Supreme Court. Law ministry’s public relations office Rezaul Karim, confirmed Banglanews of the appointment on Sunday (Oct 20). Those recruited include three district judges

SHARIATPUR: Three policemen were suspended for carrying hilsas during spawning season as government imposed a 22-day-long ban starting from Oct 9. District police chief Abdul Momen executed the punitive action against ATSI  Mintu Mia of Motor Vehicle Department of Shariatpur Police

KUSHTIA: A court here awarded death penalty to four people, including a woman, for killing Hanif, a farmer in Bheramara upazila of Kushtia. District and Sessions Judge Arup Kumar Goswami delivered the verdict at 11:45am on Wednesday (October 16). Public Prosecutor (PP) Anup Kumar

SUNAMGANJ:  The mercilessly-murdered five-year-old child Tuhin’s mother filed a case against some unidentified men with Derai Police Station on Monday night (October 14). “Tuhin’s mother Monira Begum filed the case on Monday night,” Assistant Superintend of Police (ASP) of

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentenced five “razakars” of Gaibandha to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. The three-member tribunal headed by Justice Md. Shahinur Islam gave the verdict in a packed courtroom on Tuesday

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has started reading out its verdict in war crimes cases against five Gaibandha razakars.  The three-member tribunal headed by Justice Md. Shahinur Islam is reading out the verdict in a packed courtroom on Tuesday (Oct 15). Earlier on

CHATTOGRAM: A Chattogram court on Monday (Oct 14) awarded death penalty to nine people and life term to four others for killing a man in a case filed with Daudkandi police station of Cumilla in 2013. Chattogram Speedy Trial Tribunal judge Md Abdul Halim passed the order after examining

DHAKA:  A Dhaka Metropolitan court sent so-called Jubo League leader Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim to jail after completing 19 days of remand in two cases filed under anti-money laundering and arms acts. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order

DHAKA: A writ was filed with the High Court seeking its directive to provide Tk 10 crore as compensation to the family members of BUET student Abrar Fahad. Advocate Shaheen Babu on Sunday (Oct 13) submitted the petition also requesting the HC to order the government to give Tk 10

DHAKA: A Dhaka court framed charges against eight people, including sacked major Zia ul Haque, in the case filed over the murder of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan in 2015. Judge Majibur Rahman of the Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal on Sunday (Oct 13) set November 18 for recording

DHAKA: In the wake of the murder of Bangladesh Engineering University (BUET) student Abrar Fahad, a writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking direction to take necessary steps to stop student-teacher politics and ragging in all educational institutions including the

DHAKA: The Supreme Court has directed the authorities of BRTC and Sajan Paribahan to pay Tk 10 lakh the two brothers of Titumir College student Rajib Hossain, who died after losing an arm in a collision of two buses in Dhaka. The Appellate Division bench led by the Chief Justice, in