With plastic money gaining currency in Bangladesh, debit and credit card forgery has been on the rise. Last Friday, Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) detected 21 suspicious card transactions. The number of such cases, up in the last six years, could have been prevented with careful measures taken by banks, believe…

Nine more defamation cases  were filed against the Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam yesterday in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Luxipur, Tangail, Thakurgaon, Panchagarh and Dinajpur, while a  courts  in  Dinajpur  issued a summon against him to appear before it on June 14. The cases alleged…

Justice Nozrul Islam Chowdhury, a retired High Court (HC) judge, has withdrawn from the defence team of war crimes convict and Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali, who has appealed against his death sentence in the Supreme Court (SC). “Two other senior lawyers will conduct the case proceedings in the…

Starting February 18, the Banglabandha Land Port will facilitate travel of people across the border on highways linking Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Nepal. Indian State Minister for External Affairs General (Retd) Vijay Kumar Singh and Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal will together inaugurate…

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will have to surrender before the trial court in two months in the Gatco graft case as the High Court (HC) has released the full text of its verdict rejecting her two writ petitions, reports UNB.  The High Court yesterday released the full text of its verdict rejecting…

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against seven people, including the wife, one son and a counsel of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in a case filed in connection with the leakage of the draft verdict on the BNP leader, reports UNB. Judge KM Samsul Alam of the Cyber Crime Tribunal…

Rice-growing techniques learned through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed…