Two separate murder cases have been filed in Sylhet today (19 August) in connection with the deaths of journalist ATM Turab and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) student Rudra Sen during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement. The cases were lodged at the Sylhet additional chief metropolitan court by Abul Hossain Mohammad Azrof Jabur, brother of Turab, and Hafizul Islam, ...

Broadcasting of private television channel ‘Somoy TV’ has been suspended for seven days. An HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Shashanka Shekhar Sarkar passed the order on Monday following a writ petition filed by the channel’s director Shampa Rahman. Senior lawyer Mojibul Haque Bhuiyan and Ahsanul Karim were present for the writ petitioner, while deputy attorney general Foyej ...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that Bangladesh is on high alert for Mpox (previously Monkeypox), an infectious disease which has spread across various countries, particularly in Central Africa. The disease, which leads to symptoms such as pain, swollen lymph nodes, and fever, has been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya. ...

The High Court (HC) on Monday issued a rule asking why the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which scrapped the caretaker government system, should not be declared illegal. A High Court bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Shashanka Shekhar Roy issued the rule following a writ petition. The court also asked the government to explain in eight weeks why ...

A Supreme Court lawyer filed a case against former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque with Shahbagh Police Station on Monday (August 19). The lawyer filed the case against the chief justice under sections 219 and 466 on charges of amending the caretaker government provision in the constitution through fraud, breach of trust and forgery. Earlier on Sunday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate ...

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) director Jalal Yunus has resigned from his position. Jalal Yunus, was also in charge of cricket operations, has submitted his resignation letter to the National Sports Council (NSC) on Monday. “I have resigned from the board for the interest of cricket,” Jalal said. He is the first director to resign from the current board which is ...

Gazi Md. Mozammel Haque, who began his career in 1997 after being appointed as an Assistant Commissioner of Police through the 17th BCS, is currently serving as an Additional DIG at the Police Headquarters. He is also the director of a housing project. The project, promoted under the name ‘Ananda Police Family Multipurpose Cooperative Society,’ currently holds assets worth approximately ...

Over the past 15 years, the Awami League government has been accused of widespread corruption in Bangladesh’s electricity sector, particularly in the name of capacity charges. These charges, paid to power plants for maintaining readiness to generate electricity even when not in use, have allegedly funneled vast amounts of money into the hands of businesspeople with close ties to the ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s Sylhet district unit today formed a human-chain with a demand to trace BNP’s former organizing secretary M Ilias Ali, who along with his driver Ansar Ali, went missing from Dhaka’s Banani area on April 17, 2012. BNP’s Sylhet District Unit President Abdul Quiyum Chowdhury chaired the human-chain formed at Court Point in the city, reports BSS. ...

Another murder case has been filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 61 others over the death of a fish trader in Narayanganj’s Siddhirgaj upazila. Shahnaz Begum, wife of deceased Milon, filed the case with Siddhirgaj Police Station on Sunday (August 18) night. The police station OC Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddiq confirmed the matter at about 1am on Monday. ...