In a country where corrupt practices dominate traffic rules and laws, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has prepared a draft law under which police would not require any warrant to arrest anyone for violation of traffic rules. Police lodge around 70,000 cases a month and there is a huge backlog of cases. Will this new law, if passed, help the situation?

Journalist Shafik Rehman arrested based only on Facebook status posted by the prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says.

The third phase of the Union Parishad elections ends peacefully in 620 unions of 46 districts.

Water transport workers decide to keep passenger vessels on Dhaka-greater Barisal route out of their strike temporarily due to ongoing HSC examinations.

Labour Ministry calls transport owners and leaders for a meeting tomorrow to put an end to the ongoing deadlock in the country’s water transport sector.

Prof ASM Zakaria Swapan has been made new Pro-Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for a period of three years.

The students of Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) staged a demonstration in Dhaka protesting the expulsion of five fellow students of the university.

A woman has managed a chance to ‘reunite’ with her imprisoned husband bribing her way through prison guards. Successful for a brief period of time, she got caught in the act.

The Election Commission asks some central leaders of ruling Awami League (AL) to issue directives to the party’s grassroots leaders and activists to refrain from committing violence and irregularities during the next phases of union parishad (UP) polls.

A total of 18 people have been detained with arms from Dhaka’s Jatrabari. Police said they were preparing for a robbery in the area.

Taleya Rehman, wife of journalist Shafik Rehman, said the allegation brought against her husband is totally baseless and fictitious.

High Court directs the principal of Udayan Higher Secondary School in Dhaka to probe allegation of torture on a class VIII student by a teacher.

Lalbagh police arrest four people including the "mastermind" in connection with the murder of a muezzin in Old Dhaka's Islampur on April 5.

Police recover the body of a businessman from a residential hotel in Tejgaon area of Dhaka.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrests 13 persons from different parts of the country for misappropriating over Tk 9.5 crore and grabbing lands.

Sub-Inspector of Detective Branch of Police is shot by miscreants when he was raiding in Tatnibazar area of Dhaka to nab criminals.

Students of Jagannath University (JnU) vandalise at least seven vehicles including buses in front of the campus in old Dhaka.

A child who was abducted two days ago from Ashulia, at the outskirts of Dhaka, has been rescued in Natore.

High Court fixes tomorrow for hearing two petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging a lower court order that had rejected her two applications in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with the party’s senior leaders to discuss the country's current situation.