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BNP leader Mirza Abbas walks out on bail in cases over Oct 28 violence

Dhaka, Feb. 19 -- Senior BNP leader Mirza Abbas has been released from jail after securing bail in the last remaining case against him over violence during the party's rally on Oct 28, 2023. The memb... Read More


BNP's Mirza Fakhrul, Amir Khosru released from jail on bail

Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- Senior BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury have been released from jail after being detained for three and a half months in connection with sever... Read More


Daily Star Executive Editor Ashfaqul, wife Tania remanded over death of domestic worker

Dhaka, Feb. 13 -- A Dhaka court has allowed the police to question in custody The Daily Star's Executive Editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khondoker over the death of a domestic worker. M... Read More


HC splits custody of three children between Japanese mother, Bangladeshi father

Dhaka, Feb. 13 -- The High Court has divided the custody of three children between their Japanese mother and Bangladeshi father amid a protracted legal battle. Accordingly, the eldest and youngest da... Read More


High Court orders Yunus to pay Tk 500m for filing appeal against Tk 2.5bn tax claim

Dhaka, Feb. 13 -- The High Court has ordered the Grameen Telecom Trust, headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, to appeal against Tk 2.5 billion income tax claim by paying Tk 500 million, a part of t... Read More


Court asks to complete trial in gold recovery case against Rupon

Dhaka, Feb. 13 -- The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday asked the lower court to complete the trial of expelled Awami League leader Rupon Bhuiyan in two months in a case of recovering ... Read More


International crimes tribunal sentences 3 to life in prison for war crimes in Sherpur

Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- The International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced three people to life in prison for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War. The convicts are AKM Akram Hossain, Aminuzzam... Read More


Report in graft case against CJ SK Sinha Apr 24

Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- A Dhaka court on Sunday fixed April 24 for submission of probe report in a graft case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).... Read More


Wait grows as court defers verdict in Sagira Morshed murder case

Dhaka, Feb. 8 -- The verdict in the much-discussed case of Sagira Morshed, who was killed in a family feud in Dhaka's Siddheshwari over 30 years ago, has been delayed. Dhaka's Special Sessions Judge ... Read More


Cocaine trafficking: Peruvian national jailed for life, Pakistani gets 10 years in prison

Dhaka, Feb. 7 -- A Dhaka court has sentenced a Peruvian and a Pakistani man to prison on charges of trafficking three kilograms of cocaine seized at a hotel in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar more than a decade ... Read More