Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md. Asaduzzaman said the marriage and divorce registration system is being digitalized to curb child marriage, polygamy and marriage-related fraud.
A university student, identified as Prantha Kumar Das, 25, was caught red-handed and detained on charges of vandalizing idols and structures at an ISKCON temple in Pabna city.
Like her father, India's Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, his daughter has now made headlines — the Allahabad High Court has ordered 500,000 rupees deducted from her salary as compensation.
Turkish academic and former education minister Mahmud Ozer reinterprets the concepts of 'the complete human' and 'the just city' in light of the book 'Justice in Islamic Thought.'
The Gauhati High Court has ordered the Assam state government to pay 200,000 rupees in compensation over the forced pushback of a Bengali-speaking Muslim woman into Bangladesh.
Two Supreme Court lawyers have sent a legal notice demanding adequate budget allocation, judge appointments, and steps to ensure faster, fairer justice for the judiciary.
An Egyptian court has sentenced a popular female television host, along with 11 others, to death in a drug manufacturing and trafficking case, state media report.
Police in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, have filed a case against Samajwadi Party district vice-president Haji Mohammad Usman for offering prayers at the local circuit house.
The High Court has upheld the death sentences of two Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members and acquitted five others in the murder of Rangpur shrine caretaker Rahmat Ali.
The government has established 22 special tribunals across Dhaka, Chattogram, Cox's Bazar and other districts to speed up the trial of drug-related cases, with pending cases carrying sentences of five years or more to…
Police in Tamil Nadu arrested a 23-year-old man on CCTV for throwing a petrol bomb outside his girlfriend's house after she stopped speaking to him, an incident that surfaced a day after a heated…
A BBC investigation has found that a baseless rumor about 'genital theft' by touch has fueled mob violence that has killed more than 80 people across at least eight African countries since October.
Teachers, classmates and family of Mehedi Hasan Digonto, 18, gathered to demand exemplary punishment for his killers as Rupganj police announced two arrests in the case.
A court denied bail to Jamshedur Rahman Fatik, the district Chhatra Dal's expelled vice president, who faces 11 separate cases including kidnapping and extortion.
Nepal's disaster management authority says search teams are still working to reach workers believed trapped inside flooded hydropower tunnels near the Chinese border, as families gather daily awaiting news.
The US Mint's new $1 coin marks the first time a living president has appeared on American currency in nearly a century, reviving questions about a federal law that bars the practice.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel would attack Iran's energy and civilian infrastructure if Iran attacks Israel, as Middle East tensions and oil prices both rose Thursday.
The 'Uddog' program, launching first in 64 upazilas across eight districts, will fund half of each package as a bank loan and half as a grant for applicants under 28.
Salahuddin Ahmed said mugging has declined due to sustained operations, citing the arrest of a suspect within 12 hours of a recent robbery that killed a teacher.
The Police Bureau of Investigation report clears Tisha of fraud and threat allegations brought by designer Sanaya Chowdhury, who has filed a formal objection seeking to reopen the case.
International Crimes Tribunal-2 set a Sept. 16 deadline for fugitive defendants, including former army chief Aziz Ahmed and former police chief Benazir, in the 2013 killings case.
Agrani Bank's Md Anwarul Islam, BASIC Bank's Kamruzzaman Khan and Bangladesh Development Bank's Jashim Uddin will lose the remaining terms of their contractual appointments, per Finance Ministry notifications.
Waterlogging snarled traffic across the city, a bridge collapsed in Bankura, and a young man's body was found in floodwater in Howrah, as officials warned of possible flooding along the Mayurakshi river in Birbhum.
Md Asaduzzaman said AI could be used to fabricate testimony and evidence or pressure judges, and called for a draft law to govern its use in the justice system.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said the deaths occurred in Kermanshah province, while state media reported three additional Basij members killed in a strike on Lavan Island.
Facing a 512-run deficit against South Africa 'A', captain Towhid Hridoy hit an unbeaten triple century in Potchefstroom to become only the third Bangladeshi to reach 300 in first-class cricket.
Farmers in Brahmanbaria's Nabinagar upazila are turning thousands of hectares of seasonally flooded land into productive vegetable plots using a raft-based cultivation method.
With fertility at a record-low 0.87, PM Lawrence Wong announced grants, monthly child support and cheaper preschool fees, but The Guardian reports high living costs and career pressure keep many couples away from parenthood.
The Islamabad High Court ordered Adiala Jail to arrange family visits and phone calls with Imran Khan's sons, after his sister and Bushra Bibi's daughter petitioned the court.
With government guarantees expired and roughly 7,000 crore taka at risk of turning bad, Sonali Bank has repeatedly asked the finance ministry for bonds, a new guarantee, or repayment.
US officials say a strike on Iran's Larak Island rocket-launch system was meant to stop sea-mine laying, though a retired US Navy official calls the rocket-mine claim implausible.
Trump threatened a tough response after a US strike on an Iranian island and a retaliatory IRGC missile strike on US bases in Jordan, as Iran's president called for talks to defuse tensions.
The court instead ordered two days of jail-gate questioning after weighing the pair's earlier confessional statement and the appointment of a new investigating officer.
Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddy's remarks came days after another Karnataka minister resigned amid corruption allegations, deepening pressure on the state's Congress government.
Nepal's education ministry says 19 schools were damaged in the worst-hit districts, with roughly 20 students swept away and one school bus lost to the floodwaters.
The High Court confirmed the sentence handed down after a trial that concluded in just 13 working days, while three other accused, including a minor, remain acquitted.
Researchers say a two-square-kilometer glacier collapse from a 7,000-meter peak, not a lake breach, drove the deadly surge, with three new lakes now posing further risk.
Habiganj's Baniachong comes alive daily as farmers from across the district bring homegrown Aman seedlings to the traditional 'jala' market at Chilapanja.
Police have arrested the driver and conductor of a private sleeper bus after a 16-year-old was assaulted and left roughly 40 kilometers from where she boarded.
A missile strike flattened a Kyiv-area printing house mid-run on 1.3 million new school textbooks, part of a wider campaign against Ukraine's publishing industry.
The US says it struck Larak Island preemptively over fears Iran was preparing to mine the Strait of Hormuz; Iran's IRGC hit US-used air bases in response.
Md Aminul Islam says a CDR review from an unrelated crimes-against-humanity probe turned up a link to a cultural figure, though he declined to name the person.
Salahuddin Ahmed, himself a past disappearance victim, said Sheikh Hasina shows no remorse and that walkouts are not the answer to parliamentary disputes.