A tribunal yesterday ordered further investigation into the allegation of sexual harassment of some women during Pahela Boishakh celebrations at Dhaka University last year. A judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal, Jayasree Samaddar, ordered the Police Bureau of Investigation…

The main event of the Asia Cup begins today with the Asian cricketing nations looking to build some momentum ahead of the World T20. For the first time…

Health and family welfare minister and Awami League (AL) presidium member Mohammad Nasim yesterday demanded the formation of an investigation commission to find out the names of the conspirators behind the 1/11 changeover in 2007and thereby unmask them. “If the incidents are not unveiled through…

A Jhalakati court yesterday summoned The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam to appear before it on March 31 next in connection with a defamation case, reports UNB. District Senior Judicial Magistrate M Zahed Ahmed issued the order following the submission of a primary probe report on the case.…

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson, Khaleda Zia, has strongly condemned the killing of a Hindu monastery priest, Jogeshwar Roy, and attack on devotees with guns and bombs at Panchagarh. She said the incident bears ominous signs for the future. In a strongly worded statement yesterday…

A Panchagarh court yesterday granted police 15 days to interrogate three people arrested in a case field in connection with the murder of a Hindu priest in Debiganj upazila of the district. Senior Judicial Magistrate Marjia Kathun granted the remand after Aiyub Ali, officer-in-charge of Debiganj Police…

A day after the High Court (HC) grated bail to Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Shakila Farzana in a case filed over charges of terror financing, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday stayed it till February 29. The apex court also fixed February 29 for hearing the petition in the regular…

Scientists have modeled a history of the planet's sea levels spanning back 3,000 years, and concluded that the rate of increase last century "was extremely likely faster than during any of the 27 previous centuries", reports CNN. Bob Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University who…