A full bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will hear on July 25 an appeal filed by the government against the High Court order granting bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three cases filed over vandalism and arson. The chamber judge of the Appellate…

The abducted Bangladesh Border Guard Nayek Razzak, now in Border Guard Police (BGP) custody in Myanmar, will be brought back within a day or two without any conditions. BGB director general Maj. Gen. Aziz Ahmed, who is now in China on an official visit, told The Independent yesterday that the BGP authorities…

The ruling Bangladesh Awami League is set to observe its 66th founding anniversary today amid a general belief among the party leaders that the party…

People living in slums traditionally rely on vendors, who are expensive, or polluted sources to get drinking water, reports BBC from Nairobi. But the new system, where people use a smart card, is designed to provide cheaper and cleaner water. The water company is opening four of these dispensers in…

A Dhaka court yesterday issued warrants of arrest against 33 leaders and activists of the BNP, including Rafiqul Islam Mia, in connection with a case filed for a bomb attack on a bus in Mirpur area of Dhaka on January 25 that injured three policemen. Metropolitan Sessions Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah…

The High Court yesterday granted a six-week anticipatory bail to former Planning Minister AK Khandaker in a defamation case, reports UNB. The case was filed for his ‘disparaging remarks’ about some ‘Mujib Bahini’ members in his book ‘1971: Bhetore Baire’. An HC bench…