President M Abdul Hamid yesterday emphasised the need for cooperation among the three organs of the state—the executive, legislature, and the judiciary—to establish the rule of law in the country. “There is no alternative to democracy and good governance. It is very important to maintain…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expanded her Cabinet yesterday by inducting three new faces. The three new inductees are Laxmipur-3 MP AKM Shahjahan Kamal, Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) president Mostafa Jabber, and Rajbari-1 MP Kazi Keramat Ali. Of them, Kamal and…

More than a century after the Lunacy Act 1912 was put in place, the government will enact a new law titled the ‘Mental Health Act 2018’ to protect the rights of mentally ill people. The health ministry has already prepared a draft of the act. It is likely to be placed at the Cabinet meeting…

A Comilla court yesterday ordered the arrest of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 48 other leaders and activists of her party in a murder case filed over the 2015 arson attack on a bus in Chouddagram upazila that left eight people dead, reports UNB. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Joynab Begum issued…

A delegation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will visit the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar district for four days from today to acquire first-hand information on the state of human rights violations faced by Rohingyas in Myanmar for preparing an objective report on the issue, reports…

The word of the education minister has not been enough to persuade the teachers, who are staging an indefinite hunger strike from Sunday, to withdraw…

Four workers were killed and several others injured in a mudslide while extracting stones from a quarry in Jaflong area of Goainghat upazila of Sylhet yesterday afternoon, reports UNB. The deceased, including a female, could not be identified yet. Shamsul Alam Sarkar, Additional Superintendent of Police,…