A large number of rickshaw and van pullers blocked roads in Dhaka yesterday, a day after the city corporations banned rickshaws and vans at three major…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday upheld a High Court (HC) order that granted permanent bail to former Awami League (AL) lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a murder case, clearing his release from jail. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice…

Steve Rhodes became the first coach to feel the heat of not enabling his side to take the semifinal stage of the World Cup as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) decided to discontinue his service for the national team. Rhodes was contracted with BCB up until the World T20 in Australia in 2020. In a review…

British high commissioner, Robert Chatterton Dickson, has said that extradition of the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Tarique Rahman, from the UK is a matter of the court, not the government. “We don’t make comment on individual cases. Anyone who is in the UK…

More than 60 people were found stranded near a boat in Myanmar's Rakhine state, an official said yesterday, as a trafficking route for persecuted Rohingya Muslims appears open for business despite a crackdown. Each year thousands of Rohingya and stateless Bangladeshis try to reach Malaysia or Indonesia…

The UN human rights chief said yesterday that she was "deeply shocked" by conditions under which migrants and refugees are held at US detention centres, following reports of severe overcrowding and disease-ridden cells. "As a paediatrician, but also as a mother and a former head of State,…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday stayed for two months a High Court (HC) order that imposed a status-quo on a Bangladesh Bank circular allowing special concessions accorded to loan defaulters by rescheduling their loans with a repayment period of up to 10 years. A four-member…