Rain once again caused disruption in the ICC Champions Trophy match, played between Bangladesh and Australia in the Oval yesterday, after an earlier New…

Overcoming various challenges of the post-independence era, the country’s female diplomats are now making their marks in the diplomatic front and…

The punishment for disruption of law and order is set to be harsher with the jail term for related offences being raised from the current five years to seven years. The Cabinet has approved the draft of the Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) (Amendment) Act, 2017, raising the punishment. The approval…

A man who had been fired in April from his job at a Florida company opened fire yesterday at the Orlando business, killing five people before taking his own life, authorities said, reports AFP from Orlando. Four people were killed at the scene, while a fifth died at the hospital, Orange County Sheriff…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday extended its order staying a High Court order that had stayed for six months the second phase of the gas price hike that came into effect on June 1. It also asked the High Court to hear and dispose of its (HC) ruling issued over the legality…

The High Court yesterday commuted the death sentence awarded to Oishee Rahman to life term imprisonment for killing her parents in 2013, reports UNB. An HC bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim and Justice M Jahangir Hossain passed the order this morning. The court also fined Oishee Tk 5,000, in default,…