Doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) have decided to approach the World Health Organisation (WHO) for further studies on the country’s…

President Abdul Hamid in consultation with Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has appointed eight additional judges of High Court Division as judges of the same division, a law ministry release said yesterday, reports BSS. The eight judges are Justice SM Mozibur Rahman, Justice Amir Hossain, Justice…

A Dhaka court yesterday sent 28 female activists of Jamaat-e-Islami to jail rejecting their bail petitions in a case filed under the Special Powers Act, UNB reports.  Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Subrata Shikdar passed the order after rejecting their bail petitions filed by their counsels. Earlier,…

Russia’s main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty of embezzlement and handed a five-year suspended sentence, reports BBC. It bars him from running for president next year against Vladimir Putin. He was convicted yesterday in a retrial after the European Court of Human Rights…

Former US ambassador and country director of Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, Jim Moriarty, yesterday said 60 Alliance factories have substantially completed their corrective action plans (CAPs). “In addition, 68 per cent of all required repairs across active Alliance factories have been…