The Bangladesh Bank has decided to adopt a forward-looking approach to provisioning for loan losses, requiring banks to set aside money for potential losses before loans become overdue or default...
The Appellate Division on Thursday permitted One Entertainment Company, the parent company of private broadcaster Channel One, to seek permission to appeal against a 2010 High Court verdict that upheld the cancellation of its broadcasting frequency by the then Awami League government...
The High Court on Wednesday directed the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board鈥檚 chairman and the Satkhira Palli Bidyut Samity manager to pay Tk聽10 lakh within a month to father of 10-year-old Raqibuzzaman as treatment costs after the child lost his right hand and leg due to electrocution in May 2021...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday dismissed an application filed by retired major general Ziaul Ahsan challenging the tribunal鈥檚 jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the July鈥揂ugust 2024 student-led uprising...
THE relationship between the police and the public has for long been marred by mistrust and conflict, rooted in colonial history and exacerbated by systemic abuse. The events of the student-led uprising in July-August 2024, when excessive police force, mass shooting and enforced disappearances took place, marked a low point in this strained relationship...
A man allegedly stabbed to death his 15-year-old daughter on Wednesday at Ghanashyampur village in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj after 鈥榝ailing to keep her away mobile phone addiction鈥�.
The Bangladesh Railway on Tuesday freed about 5 acres of land by evicting over 200 illegal makeshift structures including houses and shops at Tejgaon area in the capital....
Bangladesh Navy in a joint operation at Baharchhara union of Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar detained 20 people, including human trafficking victims and Rohingyas, on Tuesday...
Fiction writer and essayist Faizul Islam passed away while undergoing treatment at Labaid Hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday. He was 61.
International Crimes Tribunal prosecutor Barrister SM Moinul Karim said the prosecution was working round the clock with an effort to begin the trial of Abu Sayed murder case at the quickest possible time.
The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services has led a remarkable transformation in the country鈥檚 ICT sector evolving from just 18 members in 1998 to over 2,650 thriving national business organisations today, said its administrator Muhammad Mehedi Hasan on Saturday...
The elder brother of Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho, who was shot dead during the demonstrations of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on July 18, 2024, filed a complaint on Thursday with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor...
A complaint was filed on Monday with the International Crimes Tribunal accusing 24 people on charge of crimes against humanity for the killing of Abu Sayeed, a student activist shot dead on July 16, 2024 during the student-led uprising.
The International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday ordered detention of Armed Police Battalion constable Md Sujon Hossain in a case concerning crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising at Chankharpool in Dhaka on August 5, 2024...
Political party leaders and eminent citizens on Sunday demanded rehabilitation of the families of the martyrs and wounded people during the July-August mass uprising...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday filed two formal complaints with the International Crimes Tribunal, accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her party colleagues and...
SUFFERINGS have intensified and despair has deepened for the people who became wounded in and for the families who lost their members to the July-August uprising, with the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation 鈥� set up to provide early health care, financial assistance and long-term, sustainable support for the martyrs and the victims of the uprising...
As the violence raged, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed that indirect negotiations with Hamas had resumed in Qatar for the release of hostages seized in the October 2023 attacks...
Zarif Abrar of Army Officers Club and Halima Jahan of Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Prothistan emerged champions in the men's and women's singles events as BKSP dominated the Victory Day Tennis Tournament that ended at the Ramna Tennis Complex in the city on Friday.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has sought a list of magistrates who were in charge in Khulna during the mass protests by students and the public in July-August.
The Chattogram District Bar Association has demanded immediate transfer of the case involving the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif to a speedy trial tribunal...
Chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, Mohammad Tajul Islam on Wednesday reaffirmed that the nation and its leadership were resolute in their commitment to ensuring justice for heinous crimes, including crimes against humanity, committed during the past 16 years under the Awami League regime....
People welcomed 2025 on Tuesday night amid restrictions on outdoor celebrations in the capital and elsewhere across the country, bidding farewell to the outgoing year with fresh hopes and apprehensions.
Rakibul Hasan smashed a hat-trick as Bangladesh Air Force tasted their maiden title of the Victory Day Hockey tournament with a 5-4 win in the final over four-time champions Bangladesh Navy...
The Victory Day tennis tournament commenced at the National Tennis Complex at Ramna in the capital on Friday.
The eight-day-long Victory Day Tennis tournament starts at the Ramna Tennis Complex in the city on Friday.
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Tuesday said if the government could bring Sheikh Hasina back from India, it would be possible to conduct her trial properly.
Just 12 trucks distributed food and water in northern Gaza in two-and-a-half months, aid group Oxfam said on Sunday, raising the alarm over the worsening humanitarian situation in the besieged territory...
CHIEF adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus, in his speech to the nation on the occasion of Victory Day, provided a 鈥榮emi-clear鈥� idea about the probable timeframe for the next national parliamentary election. I term his given idea as 鈥榮emi-clear鈥� because, although he broadly mentioned December 2025 to the first half of 2026 as the probable timeframe...
Mysterious death of a young couple in Sylhet on Wednesday morning triggered a conflict among their relatives as the man鈥檚 family claimed the deaths as natural, while the woman鈥檚 relatives claimed that they were deliberately murdered...