A lasting solution to the Rohingya crisis in Rakhine and the situation in other parts of Myanmar is only possible if there is no impunity, Dutch Ambassador to Bangladesh, Harry Verweij, has said.

A Dhaka court today sent daily Sangram Chief Reporter Ruhul Amin Gazi, also president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), to jail, a day after he was arrested in a sedition case.

Rab today arrested a man from Dhaka's Shah Ali area on charge of deceiving people with fake visas of different countries, luring them with jobs overseas.

The newborn, who was declared dead on Friday but later found to be alive hours before burial, died last night.

According to the National Mental Health Survey in Bangladesh (2018-19), some 17 percent of Bangladeshi adults are undergoing mental health problems.

The government has made the decision to reimburse a portion of the application fees that were collected for this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalents exams.

Incorporating general people’s understanding while setting definition of “victim” and “witness” in relevant law is essential to ensure their protections, former chairman of National Human Rights Commission Prof Mizanur Rahman said yesterday.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday convened the special session of parliament on November 8, marking Mujib Borsho.

Sidco Group, a garment manufacturing company which had suspended 165 workers last week and shut its Ashulia factory following workers’ unrest, has reached an agreement with the workers.

Most of the trash that washed ashore on Cox’s Bazar beach in July, causing uproar among environment activists and conservationists, came from the fishing community. A probe body formed the same month came up with the findings recently after analysing the waste, visiting the spots, and talking to fishermen, locals and experts.

Four people were sent to jail on allegation of punishing 50 madrasa students on Tuesday.

The High Court yesterday granted permanent bail to contractor Asif Hossain in a case filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

Almost a week has passed since the brutal murder of Swechchasebak League leader Masudur Rahman Shuvra. His wife, Tahrima Akter Chumki, is still in shock and cannot stop wailing for her late husband.

At least 37,170 people were killed and 82,758 injured in 26,902 road accidents in last five years since 2015, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit yesterday claimed to have arrested a close aide of a Bangladeshi expat in Saudi Arabia, Mustaq Mohammad Arman Khan, who had been spreading provocative messages on social media through misinterpreting religion.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against eight engineers of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and three others for misappropriating Tk 34.42 crore.

A sub-inspector has been suspended for helping the then in-charge of Sylhet city’s Bandarbazar police outpost Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan flee after the death and alleged torture of Rayhan Ahmed while in police custody on October 11.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) today organised a virtual conference as part of preparation for a draft law on victims and witnesses’ protection.

Men in plainclothes allegedly picked up a leader of Bangladesh Juba Odhikar Parishad from the capital’s Roy Shaheb Bazar intersection area in a microbus this afternoon.

Four more prosecution witnesses, including a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate, today gave their depositions before a Dhaka tribunal in connection with the case filed over the rape of a DU student in Dhaka's Kurmitola earlier this year.