The government has endorsed a draft law that will hand a maximum of seven-year imprisonment to occupants and grabbers of railway land.

Cabinet gives final approval to the draft of the ‘The Bangladesh EPZ Labour Law, 2016’ keeping a provision for constituting labour organisations in the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) as well as forming a permanent wage board for their workers.

Conspirators who wanted to stall the Padma Bridge project would be tried under the country's existing law, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told parliament yesterday. “The Anti-Corruption Commission has already carried out investigations against those involved in conspiracy to obstruct the Padma Bridge project at that time,” the prime minister said in reply to lawmakers' queries.

The High Court upholds the Election Commission's decision that had cancelled the candidacy of Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique for Tangail-4 by-polls.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader holds transport owners responsible for road crashes and indiscipline in the sector and says they will soon be brought under the purview of punishment.

Rejecting the chief justice's remark that a judge's act of writing verdicts after retirement goes against the law and the constitution, Law

France returns the head of a Hindu deity's statue from the 7th century more than 130 years after it was taken away in the name of research.

Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee urges the government to enact law to try people who challenge the historical facts of the 1971 Liberation War.

Bulls gore seven people to death during festivals across Spain since the beginning of July.

Supreme Court adjourns hearing on contempt rule against Janakantha editor and its executive editor until August 9, show causes their lawyer asking him why his advocate on record certificate should not be scrapped.

A Sylhet court orders police to hand over the case filed over the much-talked about killing of 13-year-old Rajon to detectives for investigation.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia accused the government of “politicising the judiciary” and all other institutions.

A suspected Islamist attacker pins a decapitated head covered with Arabic writing to the gates of a gas factory in eastern France on Friday before being arrested, police said.

Both death and life term can be awarded as highest punishment for rape and killing under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, the Supreme Court has ruled. Now, Section 6(2) of Women and Children Repression Prevention (Special) Act 1995 will become void.

The governor of Indiana has defended a new law that has unleashed a wave of condemnation across the United States of America

Opposition MPs in India marches to the presidential palace to protest against a controversial land acquisition bill.

Pakistan has hanged 12 convicts, the largest number of people executed on the same day since the country overturned a ban on executions.

The Supreme Court extended a stay on High Court bail order to Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury Minar, the prime accused in Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque murder case, till April 1.

A bomb exploded on the premises of Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court in Dhaka, spreading panic among people.

NADI (not real name) filed a case accusing Sagor (not real name) of luring her into an affair with false promises of marriage. She also brought allegation of rape and cheating against the accused Sagor. In our country and many other parts of the world such kind of incidents are happening every now and then. Only few victims dared to get redressed by Law.