The High Court directs Rajuk chairman to submit before it in two months a list of unauthorised structures built at car parking areas beside roads in Dhaka.

The High Court upholds a lower court verdict that jailed former chief conservator of forest (CCF) Osman Gani for 12 years for amassing wealth illegally and concealing information in his wealth statement submitted to the ACC.

Several hundred people, including 17 landless families, formed a human chain at Thakurgaon intersection in the town yesterday,

The US Embassy, Dhaka will remain closed tomorrow on the occasion of Bangladesh's Victory Day, said a press release.

Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) during a three-week taskforce drive until yesterday fined 10 businesses and individuals Tk 14 crore in penalty and dues for pilferage of electricity, said an official handout.

Dissent is never stifled in a democratic nation, said human rights activist Sultana Kamal yesterday at a two-day long dialogue with journalists and human rights defenders.

A Chittagong court yesterday granted bail to two lawyers, who were arrested over funding a Chittagong-based militant outfit, Shaheed Hamza Brigade, in a case filed under anti-terrorism act with Hathazari Police Station.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to stop hill cutting at Dinarpur of Habiganj, and to take appropriate legal steps against people responsible for cutting hills there.

Referring to the August 21 grenade attack, Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Suranjit Sengupta told a Dhaka court yesterday that such a government-sponsored armed attacked on unarmed people never occurred in Bangladesh in the past.

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission's latest decision to hike gas and electricity prices.

A joint director of the State Bank of Pakistan was sent back from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday because she did not have visas to visit Bangladesh.

The High Court yesterday directed the deputy commissioner of Madaripur to exhume the body of Happy Akhtar, 14, who was murdered allegedly after rape this August.

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has uploaded 2011 census data which will be launched today at the capital's Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel to ensure

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal

Around 70 percent of the treatment of eye diseases could be provided at upazila levels, if every upazila has developed

The High Court issues a rule asking the authorities of icddr,b to explain under what authorities the human resource director has been holding her office.

Twenty female judges of the country in a daylong seminar yesterday discussed the challenges of implementing the domestic violence

Bangladesh's defence ministry has received five Mi-171Sh helicopters under a state credit contract of late 2013 from

Democracy is affected when powerful people crave more power, Editor of Prothom Alo Matiur Rahman told the newspaper's 17th founding

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu yesterday urged the mass media to refrain from publishing content that might directly or indirectly