A Dhaka court yesterday placed Sohel Mahfuz, a Neo JMB leader and the key accused in the Gulshan café attack case, on a six-day fresh remand, reports UNB.  Metropolitan Magistrate Sattyabrata Shikdar passed the order when Humayun Kabir, inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime…

The High Court yesterday summoned officer-in-charge of Akhaura Police Station Mosharraf Hossain Taraf for giving a report showing an alive man, who intends to go to hajj, as dead, reports UNB. A division bench of the HC comprising Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan…

As part of efforts to reduce the still high levels of gender inequality, women need to be made part of the decision-making process in every phase of infrastructure-building projects. They must be given a seat at the table in infrastructure-building, reports UNB. Marvin-Taylor Dormond, director general…

New Delhi’s multi-specialty MAX Super Speciality Hospital, Saket has launched special treatment packages for Bangladeshis who are suffering from different chronic liver diseases. Liver transplant surgeries are very expensive and Bangladeshi patients suffering from this ailment will receive special…

Two Bangladeshi students, Bushra Tawfiq Chowdhury and her husband, Munawwar Mahmud Sohul got their PhDs from Virginia Tech, USA recently, within a week,…

Three days into a hunger strike demanding withdrawal of a case filed by the university authorities against 56 students, four students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) withdrew from their strike yesterday evening, reports UNB. The students took the decision to call off the hunger strike around 7:30pm…

The High Court yesterday granted six months bail to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Joynal Abedin Farroque and senior vice chairman Barkatullah Bulu in two sabotage cases filed with different police stations of capital Dhaka city, reports UNB. An HC bench of Justice Md. Rezaul Haque and Justice…

A teacher of Dhaka University, who filed a case against one of his colleagues under section 57 of the ICT Act over a Facebook post, has decided to withdraw the lawsuit, reports UNB. Abul Mansur Ahmed, professor of Mass Communication and Journalism (MCJ) Department, on July 13, filed the case against…

Students of Jagannath University (JnU) assaulted a police sergeant yesterday for stopping JnU buses near Banglamotor in the capital, which were being driven on the wrong side of the road. The attacked police sergeant was identified as Kaiser Hamid. A witness said three double-decker buses of JnU tried…