The High Court yesterday issued a contempt rule against four police officers for not complying with its directives asking them to free roads and footpaths from Gulistan Zero Point to Sadarghat in the capital. In response to a contempt of court petition, the HC bench comprising Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday upheld a High Court (HC) order that declared two clauses of the Governing Body and Managing Committee Regulations 2009 illegal. The clauses allow MPs to become head of managing committees or governing bodies of private schools and colleges.…

An alleged terrorist convicted by the Indian court, Abdur Rauf Daud Merchant, was released from Dhaka Central Jail on Sunday as his prison term ended, said jail authorities. Senior Jail Superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail, Jahangir Kabir, confirmed the release of Daud Merchant, an alleged aide of Dubai-based…

A leading English-language newspaper in Myanmar has suspended its reporting on restive Rakhine state, according to an internal memo, as pressure mounts on media to curtail critical coverage of army operations in the area, reports AFP from Yangon. The northern part of the state, close to the Bangladesh…

Iraqi forces retook a key town from the Islamic State group yesterday, a crucial objective on the southern front of the offensive to wrest back the city…

The NDTV Group yesterday said that it moved the Supreme Court against the one-day government ban on its Hindi news channel channel NDTV India, saying such a ban is "illegal and unconstitutional", Times of India reports. A Union information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry committee in India…

Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque will leave Dhaka for New Delhi today to prepare the ground work for the Prime Minister’s visit to India expected to take place in the second half of next month, said sources concerned. On Wednesday, they said, the foreign secretary will hold a meeting with his…

Libyan law enforcement agencies have rescued 65 Bangladesh nationals from a traffickers’ den in a remote area of Libyan capital Tripoli, UNB reports. Libyan police also arrested four Bangladeshi human traffickers for their alleged involvement in trafficking and confining those 65 jobseekers and…