A SHARP decline in the conviction rate in corruption cases to a worrying 47 per cent in 2024, the lowest in eight years, down from 57.18 per cent in 2023, does not only question the effectiveness of the Anti-Corruption Commission in its fight against corruption but also, perhaps, brings to the fore some inadequacies that the commission is faced with. This...
A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to actress Pori Moni in a case lodged by businessman Nasir Uddin Mahmud on the charges of vandalising and threatening and assaulting him.
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Monday placed former state minister for disaster management and relief Enamur Rahman on a six-day remand in police custody in a murder case following his arrest Sunday night by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 detective branch...
The police on Friday night arrested former president of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League鈥檚 Satkhira district unit, Tanvir Hussain Suzan, and its former general secretary, Ehsanul Habib Ayon in connection with a murder case...
At least three cases were filed against 5,000 people, including garment workers and trade union leaders over the workers鈥� unrest at Beximco Group factories聽at Kashimpur in Gazipur on Friday and early Thursday.
The Jashore Special and Session Judge Court on Wednesday sentenced former Awami League lawmaker Shahin Chakladar to four years of jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission around 16 years ago...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son and acting BNP chairman Tarique Rahman and four others of charges in the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Orphanage Trust case...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday set Wednesday to pronounce its judgment on an appeal filed by Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, challenging a High Court order that extended her five-year jail term to 10 in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case...
The High Court on Tuesday acquitted former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and four other life-term convicts in the arms case linked to the 2004 Chattogram 10-truck arms haul, paving...
Six more witnesses testified on Tuesday in the Niko corruption case filed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others...
All set to interrogate major general (sacked) Ziaul Ahsan and former deputy commissioner of the detective branch of police鈥檚 Lalbagh zone Moshiur Rahman in the case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Nahar Runi...
Leaders of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD, a partner of the Ganatantra Mancha at a protest rally in Dhaka on Tuesday alleged that the interim government headed by Professor Muhammad Yunus had introduced fascist culture by filing baseless cases like the Sheikh Hasina-led government...
A case was filed on Wednesday evening in connection with an incident of assault of freedom fighter Abdul Hai Kanu at Chauddagram in Cumilla.
At least one case has been filed against 29 named and several hundred unnamed people following the death of four people in a violent clash over establishing control over the Ijtema ground at Tongi in Gazipur on Wednesday...
A Dhaka court summoned cricketer and former Awami League lawmaker Shakib Al Hasan and three other people in a cheque dishonour case...
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance in its first interim report has found that most victims were either killed or ended up in jail implicated in fictitious cases...
The High Court on Wednesday acquitted former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and five others and commuted the death sentence of United Liberation Front of Asom leader Paresh Barua to life-term imprisonment in one of two cases filed for 2004 Chattogram 10-truck arms haul...
A case of attempted murder has been filed against 145 Awami League leaders and activists, including former lawmaker Shamim Osman and Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader, in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj.
A Chattogram Court has dismissed three applications, including a plea to expedite a hearing, submitted on behalf of Sammilita Sanatani Jagran Jote spokesperson Chinmoy Krishna Das, who was arrested in a sedition case on allegations of desecrating the national flag...
Sri Lanka鈥檚 new government on Tuesday welcomed US sanctions against two senior figures from the former ruling Rajapaksa family over two notorious graft cases involving aircraft purchases...
A Dhaka court on Monday showed former ministers Advocate Qamrul Islam and Rashed Khan Menon and three others arrested in fresh cases filed with different police stations in the capital...
A case was filed against 469 people including former Awami League lawmaker for Rajshahi-1 constituency Omar Faruk Chowdhury and Godagari Police Station鈥檚 former officer-in-charge Abdul Matin for...
A Chattogram court on Friday granted a 7-day remand for the prime suspect and another accused in the lawyer Saiful Islam Alif murder case.聽
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Wednesday acquitted BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and 25 others in an attempt to murder case...
Hours after his acquittal by the High Court in the August 21 grenade attack case, Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Sunday said that the beauty of truth is that...
THE wholesale filing of cases in connection with murder of and attacks on protesters that took place in July鈥揂ugust and flaws in the filing of the cases stand to harm justice and allow perpetrators to escape unpunished. The police say that more than 2,500 cases have been filed until mid-November in connection with the murders and attacks during the uprising, noting that about 8,000 people have also...
The filing of flawed and wholesale cases over the murders of and attacks on protesters during the student-people uprising is likely to hinder justice and pave the way for perpetrators to escape punishment.
Four days after lawyer Saiful Islam Alif had been hacked to death in Chattogram, a murder case was filed with the Kotwali police against 31 named and 10鈥�15 unidentified people early Saturday...
The High Court on Thursday commenced the hearing of the death reference in the murder case of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology鈥檚 student Abrar Fahad...
The High Court on Wednesday granted ad interim bail to former police super Babul Akhter in Mahmuda Khan Mitu murder case...