The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday stayed for four months the High Court order that granted bail to Awami League MP from Tangail-3 constituency Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in the Awami League leader Faruk Ahmed murder case. A three-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief…

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has formed a five-member committee to investigate the recent incident of rape of two private university students in a four-star hotel in Banani. Shafat Ahmed, the alleged rapist who is the son of a rich and influential jeweller, his body guards, and his driver,…

The government has rearranged office timing for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm for all government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions, reports UNB. The decision was taken at the weekly cabinet meeting held with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the…

A South African attempting to climb Mount Everest alone and without a permit has been ordered off the mountain, had his passport confiscated and will be fined $22,000, an official said Monday, reports AFP from Kathmandu. Ryan Sean Davy, 43, told officials at base camp that he had climbed alone as far…

Rebel fighters and their families have begun leaving a besieged area of the Syrian capital Damascus, under a new evacuation deal with the government, reports BBC. Up to 1,500 people were expected to leave the Barzeh district in the north-east of the capital on Monday, a monitoring group said. Most are…

Uncertainty over America’s future in the climate-rescue Paris Agreement loomed large over UN talks that opened in Bonn yesterday to work out the nuts and bolts of implementing the hard-fought international deal, reports AFP from Bonn. US President Donald Trump has yet to announce whether he intends…