The trial of the case — filed against Md Majnu for the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area — began at a Dhaka tribunal yesterday with the deposition of the complainant. Judge Begum Mosammat Quamrunnahar of the Women and Children’s Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 recorded the statement. Later, the witness was […]

While facing an uphill battle to tame the skyrocketing price of onion at local markets, the government has put its faith in e-commerce to restore normalcy in the demand and supply of the kitchen staple. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday launched the sale of onion of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) preliminarily through five […]

Rabiul Islam finally gave a confessional statement before a court yesterday, admitting that he was involved with the brutal hammer attack on Wahida Khanam, upazila nirbahi officer of Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat Upazila, on September 3rd. Rabiul, a former staffer of the Ghoraghat UNO office, was brought inside the court complex on a pickup van of the […]

A Chattogram court yesterday passed an order to freeze all movable and immovable property of Chumki Karan, wife of former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das, in connection with a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Meanwhile, the court rejected the bail prayer of Pradeep, who is accused in Major (retd) […]