ONE Bank PLC has been awarded ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate by France-based certification authority Bureau Veritas (Bangladesh) Pvt Limited for fulfilling the requirements of the ISO 27001:2022 standard, said a press release...
France鈥檚 ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed Tuesday, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison...
The advisory council of the interim government on Thursday approved the plan to merge five troubled Shariah-based banks into a single state-owned Islamic bank to restore financial discipline and stability in the country鈥檚 banking sector.
A Chattogram court on Monday sentenced a Myanmar citizen to life imprisonment for trading yaba pills under Bakalia police station...
A prisoner died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Thursday, hours after admission...
Shahjalal Islami Bank PLC held the 89th meeting of its Shari鈥檃h Supervisory Committee at the bank鈥檚 Corporate Head Office on September 24...
The wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples found he was killed by poisoning while incarcerated at an Arctic prison in February 2024...
The top suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal was freed from a German prison on Wednesday, an AFP journalist at the scene reported...
The government is considering reducing the 30-year jail term for life-sentenced prisoners and releasing some elderly inmates after reviewing their sentences...
Bangladesh interim government home adviser Lieutenant General, Retd, Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday said the government is considering reducing the life imprisonment term to a reasonable period from 30 years aimed at releasing older prisoners.
ACI Hygiene Products Factory has recently been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System certification by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI)...
Washington鈥檚 special envoy Adam Boehler made a rare visit on Saturday to Kabul, where he said the United States would move forward with a prisoner exchange, according to the Taliban government...
Billionaire Elon Musk is at risk of losing his title as the world鈥檚 wealthiest person to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, whose software giant appears poised for massive AI riches through a major deal with OpenAI...
Prisoners in Uzbekistan will be able to plead for reduced sentences if they read books selected by authorities to cultivate 鈥榗orrect spiritual and moral values鈥�, officials said.
The government on Thursday approved a draft of the Enforced Disappearance Prevention, Remedies and Protection Ordinance 2025 in principle, which proposed the death penalty and other severe punishments for committing the crimes.
A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom鈥檚 longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on Wednesday under a mass pardon marking the king鈥檚 birthday...
Inspector general of prisons Brigadier General Syed Md Motaher Hossain on Tuesday revealed that nine militants were among 700 inmates who remained absconding till now after a jailbreak during the past year鈥檚 political unrest.
IT WAS astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa at 20 years old on Aug 3, 2025 inside Israel鈥檚 Magiddo prison...
Prime Bank Investment Limited has recently entered into a strategic alliance with Amanie Advisors to accelerate development of Bangladesh鈥檚 Shariah-compliant investment landscape, said a press release...
IT WAS astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on August 3, 2025, inside Israel鈥檚 Magiddo prison. Just months earlier, reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian prisoner in Megiddo, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad (16 years old), on March 24. Both young men, boys really, had been picked up from the...
Exiled Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya on Friday urged presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to strike a deal to free Russian and Ukrainian political prisoners held captive by Moscow for speaking out against the war...
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 84 prisoners each on Thursday, both sides said, the latest in a series of swaps that has seen hundreds of POWs released so far this year...
A Faridpur court on Monday sentenced a man to life-term imprisonment for burning his wife to death in sadar upazila in 2011...
THE findings of a study report that about 98 per cent of the children living in Dhaka are exposed a high level of lead poisoning, which can cause memory loss, a headache, depression and the loss of intelligent quotient, is worrying. The study that the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh along with the Stanford School of Medicine of the...
Tottenham midfielder James Maddison is expected to miss most of the upcoming Premier league season after rupturing an anterior cruciate ligament.
July uprising protesters who were imprisoned during the uprising last year have demanded a list from the government of those who were incarcerated and also pressed for reforms in the Jail Code...
Nearly 98 per cent of children living in Dhaka are exposed to a high level of lead poisoning, according to a study conducted by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh...
Bank Asia PLC鈥檚 Shariah supervisory committee on July 28 held its 49th meeting at Bank Asia Tower, Karwan Bazar in the capital, said a press release...
Myanmar鈥檚 junta said Wednesday it has enacted a new law dictating prison sentences for critics or protesters of their planned election, which is being boycotted by opposition groups...
Venezuela announced a probe Monday into torture claims by 252 migrants the United States had sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison where they said they were beaten, sexually abused and fed rotten food...
