The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that scrapped the 13-year jail sentence against environment and forest minister Anwar Hossain Manju in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission. The four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief…

A bill has been placed in Parliament providing for holding the Pourasabha elections for the post of mayor along party lines - opening the way for the country’s registered political parties to participate in them directly, reports UNB. At present, only ‘independent’ candidates are allowed…

The light may have nearly gone out of her life, but that has not prevented her from shining as a beacon of hope for others. Suraiya Akhtar Bably, born…

Renowned fiction writer and Rajshahi University teacher Hasan Azizul Haq received a death threat from an unknown number over mobile phone yesterday, reports UNB. Contacted, Hasan Azizul Haq said he received a phone call from an unknown number in the afternoon when the unidentified caller asked him whether…