Three suspected hijackers and a drug trader were killed in reported gunfights in Dhaka, Chattogram and Cumilla early yesterday. In Dhaka, two suspected hijackers were killed in a reported gunfight with RAB members in Hazaribagh Beribadh area of the capital early yesterday. The deceased were identified…

Law enforcement agencies are yet to arrest the 17 convicts sentenced to death by a lower court in March last year in Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque Ekram murder case. Feni District and Session's Court on March 13, 2018 sentenced 39 people to death in the sensational murder case. Among them,…

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why mother's name should not be attached along with father's one for a citizen's identity. Home and law secretaries, Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission and Bangladesh Supreme Court Registrar General…

Amid the escalating diplomatic row between the two countries, the Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad, in an apparent protest, has stopped issuing visas to Pakistanis, said an official yesterday. The decision was taken as a visa extension application submitted by Bangladesh diplomat Muhammad Iqbal…

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food Ministry yesterday recommended the government to stop the rice import in the interest of local farmers. It also suggested the government to procure rice directly from farmers to protect the interests of farmers. The parliamentary watchdog came up with the…

A tribunal yesterday sent the imam of a mosque to jail for allegedly raping a teenage girl in Debpur area of Sadar upazila six months ago. Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal passed the order when Md Mozammel Haque, 30, son of Jafar Ali Mia of Uakuru village in Shahrasti upazila…