The Dhaka Declaration on Defending Media Freedom, Journalists’ Protection and Citizen’s Rights was launched yesterday, containing signatures of over 140 rights activists, rights organisations, journalists, legal experts and professors.

Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives (LGRD) Minister Tajul Islam yesterday said the bridges around Dhaka which are creating obstacles in plying of water vessels will be demolished and new bridges will be built there.

Police yesterday arrested 15 more people in connection with the cases filed over arson attack on buses and subversive activities in the capital on Tuesday.

The High Court yesterday adjourned for a week the hearing on a writ petition that sought a stay order on Dhaka South City Corporation’s (DSCC) move to relocate stray dogs.

Mymensingh division is not a region known for tea cultivation, but researchers say that might soon change. In fact, Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) has already initiated tea cultivation in the division.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh Coast Guard will be strengthened so that they can play a role in helping the government tap the potential of the blue economy.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will deliver its order today on a bail petition of BNP leader and former state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin in a corruption case in which he was sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday refused to grant bail to Abu Naser Chowdhury, a convict in the Commodore Ghulam Rabbani murder case.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petitions of former ward-30 councillor of Dhaka South Mohammad Erfan Salim, also son of Dhaka-7

Two people were sent to jail on Saturday for torturing a ten-year-old girl at Nilganj in Bakerganj of Barishal.

Police arrested a man with a consignment of 11,200 pieces of Indian painkiller Tapentadol, which has been considered as a narcotic in Bangladesh for the last six months, in Rajshahi city on Saturday.

A Dhaka court today rejected the bail petitions of former ward-30 councillor of Dhaka South Mohammad Erfan Salim, also son of Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim, and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah, in two arms cases filed with Chawkbazar Police Station.

Two employees of Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital today confessed before a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate to their involvement in the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Anisul Karim on November 9.

The High Court today adjourned for a week the hearing on a writ petition that sought a stay order on Dhaka South City Corporation's (DSCC) move to relocate stray dogs.

A journalist at Rajshahi University (RU) has been sent to jail after he was arrested in a case filed five years ago under the Information and Communication Technology Act.

About 30,970 new visas for migrant workers’ employment in Saudi Arabia are needed to be reissued since those got expired amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies.

Fourteen people died of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours till 8am, raising the death toll to 6,173, said a press release of Directorate General of Health

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday issued a note of warning that stern action would be taken against those involved in arson attacks on buses in the capital.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP is again trying to take revenge by burning people after voters rejected the party in the election.

Expressing deep concern and condemnation over the torching of several buses in Dhaka, Bangladesh Workers’ Party yesterday said such subversive incidents is the outcome of conspiracy of undemocratic “evil forces”.