The High Court yesterday granted bail for six months to ruling Awami League lawmaker from Cox’s Bazar Abdur Rahman Badi, who was jailed for three…

Three human rights organisations yesterday filed a writ petition jointly with the High Court challenging the legality of using firearms by police on Santal…

A California senator introduced legislation Tuesday to rid the United States of its electoral college, the system that allowed Donald Trump to win the presidency despite Hillary Clinton’s lead of nearly one million votes, reports AFP from Washington.  The measure comes amid calls for reform…

The Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee (SCLAC) yesterday wrote to jail authorities across the country, seeking information on prisoners who have been languishing in jail for a long time without trial. The SCLAC, led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, has asked the jail authorities to prepare lists of such…

In a fresh incident of arson attack, miscreants torched the cowshed of Nasirnagar upazila vice-chairman Anjan Kummar Dey in the upazila headquarters yesterday evening, reports UNB. Anjan told the news agency that a group of miscreants set fire to the cowshed of his house around 6:30 pm when he was away…

The government has recognised 108 artistes of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra and cultural organisations which were formed during the Liberation War as freedom fighters, reports UNB. The Liberation War Affairs Ministry published the gazette notification in this regard yesterday. Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra…

A Muslim student's hijab was allegedly ripped off and her hair pulled down by a classmate at a school in Minnesota, the latest in a series of assaults and threats reported against headscarf-wearing women in the US following Donald Trump's win, PTI reports from Chicago, USA.  The incident…