THE government鈥檚 not effectively minding the absence, or presence, of public prosecutors and government pleaders in lower courts is delaying justice as judges are compelled to adjourn hearing during cross-examination of or deposition by witnesses, which undermines the delivery of justice. The law officers, including public prosecutors and government...
Mohammad Mamdudur Rashid has been appointed as managing director and chief executive officer of United Commercial Bank PLC recently, said a press release...
Asian and European stocks markets rallied Thursday, with a record high in Frankfurt, after the Federal Reserve announced a bumper interest-rate cut and pledged further reductions as inflation cools...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on Wednesday approved a total of four development projects involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 1,222.14 crore.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday said that the frequency of power cuts had increased dramatically in the country due to the looting and laundering of huge amounts of money by the previous Awami League government.
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Md Tajul Islam on Monday said that efforts were on to collect evidence of genocides those had been allegedly committed by past Awami League government while attempting to quell the recent anti-discrimination student movement...
The government recently cancelled the appointment of 17 special public prosecutors in an Explosive Substances Act case, filed with Lalbagh police station over the 2009 BDR mutiny...
Newly appointed chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Md Tajul Islam on Sunday said that necessary steps would be taken to bring ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina back to the country to stand trial over alleged crimes against humanity and genocide during the recent anti-discrimination student movement in Bangladesh...
Major stock markets mostly fell Monday as more weak Chinese economic data offset optimism over an expected US interest-rate cut...
Salahuddin Alamgir has been elected executive committee chairman of Modhumoti Bank PLC during the bank鈥檚 79th board meeting held on August 28, said a press release...
Two brothers died from electrocution in Matlab Uttar Upazila of Chandpur district on Monday night, police said...
Planning and education adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Monday said that projects awaiting approval of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council...
Global stock markets聽diverged on Wednesday after data showing US consumer price inflation eased last month raised the prospect of a September interest rate cut...
Two workers were electrocuted and five more injured while installing new poles for Palli Bidyut at Raipura upazila in Narsingdi on Tuesday...
A leak in the pipeline supplying liquefied natural gas at Anwara in Chattogram more than doubled load shedding on Wednesday compared with the day before...
A five member committee has been formed to investigate the deaths of five people from electrocution during Rath Yatra (a Hindu religious festival) in Seujgari Amtai intersection of Bogura district town on Sunday...
At least five Hindu devotees were killed and fifty more were injured in electrocution while they were participating in a Ratha Yatra procession in Bogura district on...
MA Khan Belal has been elected executive committee chairman of Mercantile Bank PLC鈥檚 board of directors during the bank鈥檚 443rd board meeting held on June 30, said a press release...
A woman died after being electrocuted in Lalmonirhat鈥檚 Aditmari upazila on Thursday.
Independent lawmaker Md Nasser Shahrear Zahedee on Thursday criticised finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali for reducing subsidies in agriculture in the proposed budget for the financial year 2024-25...
This Eid vacation is likely to be spent in discomfort and suffering as conditions become favourable for the ongoing humid heatwave to intensify over the period amid crises severely restricting power generation capacity...
A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president...
Executions around the world rose to their highest number in nearly a decade in 2023, with a sharp rise in the Middle East, Amnesty International said on Wednesday...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday witnessed the draft copy of the documentary titled 鈥楳ujib in Calcutta鈥� made projecting the Kolkata part of Bangladesh鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman鈥檚 life.....
A construction worker was electrocuted to death while doing plaster works in an under-construction building in the capital鈥檚 Kalabagan area on Tuesday...
Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further...
More than seven million people in fragile South Sudan are at risk of acute food insecurity in the coming months, including tens of thousands at a 鈥榗atastrophic鈥� level of famine, the United Nations warned on Tuesday...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday directed off-loading shares of the state-owned companies into the stock market...
Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with some 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, UN agencies and development groups said on Wednesday...
Power cuts remain far more frequent in villages than in cities, with a massive heatwave sweeping Bangladesh for about two weeks now, corroborating the...