12 Years of Rana Plaza Tragedy / Victims still await justice as trials drag on
Twelve years have passed since the Rana Plaza collapse, yet the trials of two related cases remain incomplete at a Dhaka court, mainly due to the repeated absence of prosecution witnesses.
23 April 2025, 18:00 PM
130 pro-AL lawyers sued sans specific charges
A pro-BNP lawyer sued 144 pro-Awami League lawyers for illegally gathering, trespassing, theft, causing bodily harm, attempted murder, vandalism and exploding crude bombs.
7 April 2025, 20:47 PM
Assets of Hasina, family, AL: Court orders to freeze Tk 600cr
A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the confiscation of Sudha Sadan, a property registered to Sheikh Hasina’s children, and immovable assets of Sheikh Rehana and Radwan Mujib Siddiq.
11 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Khaleda Zia’s legal woes end
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is now cleared of all the 37 cases filed during the 2007 caretaker government and the Awami League regime as the court acquitted her in the Niko graft case yesterday.
19 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Sagar-Runi Murder / 13 years on, justice remains elusive
A 73-year-old mother, Saleha Monir, has sought justice for the last 13 years, but it remains a far cry for them.
10 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Tipu Murder Case: 26 years on, trial yet to see closure
It has been 26 years into the murder of Sayeed Ahmed Tipu, but the trial of the case is yet to see any closure at a Dhaka court due to the non-appearance of prosecution witnesses to testify.
17 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Iron cages being removed from all courtrooms
The Public Works Department (PWD) has initiated the removal of iron cages from courtrooms nationwide, following directives from higher authorities.
18 August 2024, 18:00 PM
MP AZIM MURDER / ‘2 killers went to Kolkata on medical visa’
Foysal Ali Sahazi and Mostafizur Rahman Fakir travelled to Kolkata on a medical visa to murder Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar.
2 July 2024, 18:00 PM
34 CASES AGAINST KHALEDA
Trial of the Gatco graft case is pending with the Special Judge's Court-3 of Dhaka. The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case on
7 February 2018, 18:00 PM
24-year-old Defence Purchase Scam: Ershad, two other accused acquitted
A Dhaka court yesterday acquitted Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad and two others in a 24-year-old defence purchase scam case as it
19 April 2017, 18:00 PM
2010 Blast At CJ's Residence: Court orders fresh probe into case
A Dhaka court has ordered reinvestigation into a case filed in connection with 2010 Molotov cocktail attack on then chief justice ABM Khairul Haque's residence.
28 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Fugitive on paper, jailed in reality
He is in jail and he is a fugitive -- all at the same time.
Strange, right?
But the man we are talking about is no illusionist. He is Kamol Khan, a prisoner as per the Dhaka Central Jail records and a fugitive in case documents.
24 February 2017, 18:00 PM
A regret for life
Mukuly Begum literally struggled to take her thirteen-month-old daughter on her lap.
12 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Drug court to give judgement Aug 13
Amid all the bleak stories covering newspapers nowadays, the nation gets something to celebrate -- the Dhaka Drug Court fixed August 13 for passing its judgment on adulteration of drugs by six manufacturers of BCIB.
10 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Khaleda 'fugitive'
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has lost her right to defend herself in the two corruption cases for now, as a Dhaka court has declared her a fugitive in the cases.
4 March 2015, 20:48 PM
No case sees verdict
Court officials cannot tell when a gold smuggler was punished last time. What they can tell though that there is no such instance in the past 10 years. This, they say, has contributed to the recent surge in the smuggling of the yellow metal.
1 March 2015, 23:23 PM
Drug admin official couldn't care less
Abul Khair Chowdhury is a government official now serving as an assistant director of the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA). Intriguingly, police failed to get hold of him despite summon and arrest orders in the last two years.
6 August 2014, 18:02 PM
JUSTICE DELAYED, NOT DENIED
Adflame's Paracetamol syrup Flammadol containing toxic chemical diethylene glycol was responsible for the deaths of a number of children between 1982 and 1992.
22 July 2014, 18:01 PM
All records 'lost' from drug office
Documents available in court indicate clearly that the DGDA deliberately destroyed the cases. Meanwhile, people present during the 1992 drugs test recalled how proper steps regarding the matter had been bypassed since the very beginning.
18 October 2011, 18:00 PM