Two people including one of the accused in the murder of a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader in Noakhali were killed in reported gunfights with law enforcers yesterday. In Noakhali, accused in BCL leader Rakib Hossain murder case was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Amanullahpur village…

After Tabith Awal's petition, BNP's defeated mayoral candidate in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) election Ishraque Hossain yesterday filed a petition with the electoral tribunal seeking cancellation of the results of the February-1 polls. On behalf of Ishraque, his lawyer Taherul Islam…

The High Court (HC) yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why the circular issued by Bangladesh Bank fixing 9 per cent interest rate on loans should not be declared illegal. In response to a writ petition, the HC bench comprising Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman and…

A special session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will begin on March 22 this year on the occasion of ‘Mujib Year’. President Md Abdul Hamid has called the session exercising the power bestowed upon him as per the Clause (1) of Article 72 of the Constitution, a Parliament Secretariat press…

United Nations agencies and NGO partners yesterday launched the 2020 Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis and sought $877 million. Building on the efforts and success of previous years, the appeal aims to raise the amount to respond to the needs of approximately 855,000 Rohingyas…

A Pirojpur court yesterday granted bail to former Awami League lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The same court earlier in the morning rejected their bail prayers in three corruption cases. Meanwhile, District and Sessions…

Suddhananda Mahathero, foremost Buddhist religious leader and chief abbot of Kamalapur Dharmarajika Buddhist Mahabihar, passed away yesterday morning while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the city. He was 87, clinic and monastery sources said. He had been suffering from respiratory obstruction,…

A Turkish fighter jet yesterday downed a Syrian regime warplane in the northwestern Idlib province and the pilot was killed, a monitoring group said. It was the third such downing in three days amid escalating fighting between Turkish forces and Syria’s Russian- and Iranian-backed regime. A missile…

A week after the spate of violence left 47 dead and over 200 injured in northeast Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday asked BJP MPs to take the lead in ensuring harmony in the society with their "words, mind, and deeds." The remarks come amid criticism of his government by the Opposition…