Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit yesterday claimed to have arrested a close aide of a Bangladeshi expat in Saudi Arabia, Mustaq Mohammad Arman Khan, who had been spreading provocative messages on social media through misinterpreting religion.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against eight engineers of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and three others for misappropriating Tk 34.42 crore.

According to the National Mental Health Survey in Bangladesh (2018-19), some 17 percent of Bangladeshi adults are undergoing mental health problems.

The government has made the decision to reimburse a portion of the application fees that were collected for this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalents exams.

Incorporating general people’s understanding while setting definition of “victim” and “witness” in relevant law is essential to ensure their protections, former chairman of National Human Rights Commission Prof Mizanur Rahman said yesterday.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday convened the special session of parliament on November 8, marking Mujib Borsho.

Sidco Group, a garment manufacturing company which had suspended 165 workers last week and shut its Ashulia factory following workers’ unrest, has reached an agreement with the workers.

Most of the trash that washed ashore on Cox’s Bazar beach in July, causing uproar among environment activists and conservationists, came from the fishing community. A probe body formed the same month came up with the findings recently after analysing the waste, visiting the spots, and talking to fishermen, locals and experts.

Four people were sent to jail on allegation of punishing 50 madrasa students on Tuesday.

A sub-inspector has been suspended for helping the then in-charge of Sylhet city’s Bandarbazar police outpost Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan flee after the death and alleged torture of Rayhan Ahmed while in police custody on October 11.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) today organised a virtual conference as part of preparation for a draft law on victims and witnesses’ protection.

Men in plainclothes allegedly picked up a leader of Bangladesh Juba Odhikar Parishad from the capital’s Roy Shaheb Bazar intersection area in a microbus this afternoon.

Four more prosecution witnesses, including a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate, today gave their depositions before a Dhaka tribunal in connection with the case filed over the rape of a DU student in Dhaka's Kurmitola earlier this year.

The High Court today refused to grant anticipatory bail to four accused in a case filed on charges of killing Supreme Court lawyer Asif Imtiaz Khan Jisad.

Anti-rape protesters today blocked Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka for two hours demanding implementation of their nine-point demand and protesting the attack on Dhaka to Noakhali anti-rape long-march on October 17.

A traffic sergeant was killed after a pick-up van hit his motorcycle in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area last night.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against suspended DIG Mizanur Rahman and three others in a graft case.

Thirteen people out of the 14 who were allegedly detained by police -- during and following a clash between law enforcers and agitators protesting jute mill closure in Khulna’s Atra industrial area on Monday -- were shown arrested in a case yesterday.

Civil society groups based in Cox’s Bazar have called for the international community to redouble efforts for quick repatriation of Rohingyas, saying that Bangladesh itself is facing multiple challenges brought on by climate change and Covid-19.

A civil court in Rajshahi yesterday fined a man Tk 20,000 for attempting to occupy a piece of land through false documents in a false case he filed against another.