1,004 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
The United States has charged 17 Iranian nationals over a large-scale cyberattack campaign targeting universities, companies and government agencies worldwide, the Justice Department said, alleging the theft of vast amounts of research data and…
Former Chief Justice A B M Khairul Hoque has been released on bail after more than a year in custody, following rulings across nine separate cases filed against him after the July mass uprising.
A court in West Bengal's Nadia district issued an arrest warrant for Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra after she failed to appear despite repeated summonses in a case alleging she hurt religious sentiments in…
The United States has imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and a senior prosecutor, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced, in the latest of a series of attacks by the…
A 71-year-old man in Narail's Lohagara has accused three named men and several unidentified others of abducting him and demanding ransom over a money dispute, though police say they found no evidence he had…
Pakistan's Supreme Court-ordered weekly family visits have allowed jailed former prime minister Imran Khan to meet his sister and, separately, his wife Bushra Bibi for the first time in eight months, Dawn and Express…
A court in Narail has sentenced a 37-year-old man to death for the rape and murder of his 5-year-old relative, with the verdict delivered in just nine working days from the start of the…
Bangladesh's newly elected president will be sworn in at 7:00 p.m. Friday, August 21, at Bangabhaban's Darbar Hall, National Parliament Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni said.
A woman in Netrokona has filed a fraud case alleging her husband converted to Islam to marry her, lived with her for eight years and had two children, then reverted to Hinduism and secretly…
Dr Dipu Moni, a minister and MP under the ousted Awami League government, is being released from jail for 12 hours following the death of her husband, Munshiganj's additional district magistrate confirmed.
Former Chief Justice A B M Khairul Haque, seen as aligned with the Awami League, has been released from jail after the Appellate Division's chamber court upheld bail granted by the High Court in…
Police in Sreepur, Gazipur, arrested a 50-year-old man with roughly 8,000 yaba tablets in a special operation, with a court ordering him held in custody.
Police in Kotchandpur, Jhenaidah, have arrested one of 15 named suspects in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act after banners bearing images of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina…
A 15-year-old boy who drowned off Chattogram's Patenga beach lay unidentified in a hospital morgue for two days while his distraught family, unable to find him, was extorted out of Tk 60,000 by a…
A court in Pskov has sentenced Lev Shlosberg, a well-known Russian anti-war politician and deputy leader of the liberal Yabloko party, to 11 years and one month in prison over social media posts criticizing…
Border Guard Bangladesh seized a large quantity of Indian UV sunglasses and saris worth roughly Tk 2.225 million in an anti-smuggling operation along the Fulgazi border in Feni.
Robbers broke into the home of two US-based brothers in Rangpur's Pirgachha, making off with roughly Tk 3 million in gold and other valuables, with police arresting one suspect the same night.
West Bengal has been rocked by a string of killings, including the beating death of a CJP activist's father in Bankura and the shooting and hacking deaths of a Congress leader and his son…
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered former Prime Minister Imran Khan transferred from prison to a hospital amid concerns over his health, after former President Arif Alvi said Khan's medical reports were "worrying."
The High Court has dismissed a writ petition that challenged the validity of the constitution's Article 70 and sought to stay the schedule for the country's presidential election, due to be held Thursday.
Police in Jhenaidah's Kotchandpur have filed a case under the Anti-Terrorism Act naming 14 suspects, with 8 to 10 more listed as unidentified, after an incident on August 16; one named suspect has been…
A gang of eight to ten masked robbers tied up two nightguards and looted gold, silver, and cash worth roughly 2.1 million taka from three jewelry shops and a pharmacy in Pangsha, Rajbari.
The High Court will rule Tuesday on a writ petition challenging the constitutionality of Article 70 and seeking to stay the presidential election schedule, filed by lawyer Md Yunus Ali Akand.
Closing arguments have concluded in the crimes against humanity case against Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and six other senior party and student-wing leaders over the July uprising killings, with the International Crimes…
A Dhaka court denied bail and sent Public Service Commission programmer Kaushik Debnath to jail after he surrendered in a BCS exam question leak case, part of a scandal involving 55 accused, including alleged…
A Narayanganj court has sentenced three men to death for the stabbing death of AIUB computer science student Md Wazed Simanta during a mugging in December 2024, after finding them guilty following review of…
Civil rights group CJP has demanded swift arrests after the father of a 25-year-old volunteer died from injuries allegedly inflicted by BJP-linked men following the volunteer's inspection of a government school in Bankura district,…
Assistant Attorney General Md Nurul Karim has resigned after media reports surfaced alleging his affiliation with Awami League politics, with Attorney General Ruhul Quddus Kajal confirming he did not deny the reports when questioned.
Lawyers staged a protest at the Supreme Court demanding the resignation of Attorney General Ruhul Quddus Kajal, alleging corruption in deputy and assistant attorney general appointments and declaring him unwelcome in his office.
Hasibur Rahman, boyfriend of model and actress Lina Akter, known as Ridhika Ridhi, has been sent to jail after being arrested in connection with her death, with her mother filing a case alleging he…
The International Crimes Tribunal has set September 3 as the next hearing date in the crimes against humanity case over the 2013 Shapla Chattar killings, which named deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 40…
Police arrested 15 people, including a journalist, from a meeting of the banned Awami League and its affiliated organizations in the Mansurabad area of Chattogram's Double Mooring police station area, with a case filed…
Bangladesh has canceled Prime Minister Tareque Rahman's planned Delhi visit, conditioning any future trip on India's cooperation in returning Sheikh Hasina and the accused killers in the murder of martyr Sharif Osman Hadi, whose…
Senior Indian officials have said the final decision on whether to extradite deposed former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be made by India's courts, not through political or diplomatic channels, The Indian Express has…
Bangladesh has roughly one judge for every 100,000 people, with pending cases in subordinate courts up by 2.6 million over the past decade and a half, as an 11-year-old plan to raise judge numbers…
Police in Veramara, Kushtia, have arrested a union parishad chairman and his brother, both officials of the now-banned Awami League's affiliated wings, on suspicion of covertly organizing party activists ahead of August 15.
The High Court has listed for hearing the death reference and appeals of two convicted individuals sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in the Pallabi area of Mirpur,…
Police have arrested former Member of Parliament Nayeb Ali Joardar of the Jhenaidah-1 (Shailkupa) constituency on charges of maintaining regular contact with fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and planning to create unrest in…
Police have filed a case naming 64 leaders and activists of the Awami League and its affiliated organizations in Chunarughat, Habiganj, on charges of conspiring to destabilize the country. An additional 20 to 30…
Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Asaduzzaman has called ensuring access to justice a matter of fundamental human rights and a core state responsibility, speaking at the opening of a two-day coordination meeting…
RAB-14 has arrested Abdul Khalek, 27, for the hacking death of Mohammad Rabbi, 25, in Mymensingh, with the suspect claiming he was avenging a 2018 attack in which his father's hand was severed.
RAB-13 has arrested three people, including a woman, in connection with the murder of businessman Abdur Rahman, 60, whose body was found in his auto-rickshaw garage in Rangpur city.
Muhammad Yasin, known as Sonamia, who was arrested and jailed under a death sentence meant for a different person in a drug trafficking case, has been released on bail after a court confirmed the…
Bangladesh reached 351 for 6 at stumps on day two of the Darwin Test, building a 153-run first-innings lead after Tanjid Hasan scored a maiden Test century and captain Nazmul Hossain contributed 84.
Residents in Mirsarai detained three alleged members of a CNG auto-rickshaw theft ring, had them repent and pray 100 voluntary rakahs, then released them without assault.
A Noakhali court sentenced lead accused Sabuj to death for the 2013 killings of Setara Begum and Khalil and acquitted the other two defendants.
Police in Moulvibazar have arrested Saddam Hossain Kajol, an accused in 15 robbery cases across four districts, in an early-morning operation, officers say.
A Chhatra League activist was caught by locals while burgling an expatriate's home in Pirojpur's Nesarabad, after allegedly stabbing the man's wife, daughter and a neighbour.
The Police Bureau of Investigation has arrested two men, including the alleged main assailant, over the killing of auto-van driver Sujon Howlader in Ashulia, recovering the victim's vehicle and the weapon.
The Border Guard Bangladesh has seized 617 bottles of banned Indian Eskaf syrup in an operation in the Putkhali border area of Jashore, officers say.
The prosecution has sought the maximum punishment and confiscation of property for seven defendants in the crimes-against-humanity case over the July uprising, including former minister Obaidul Quader.
The number of Palestinian journalists held in Israeli prisons has risen to 40 after the arrest of journalist Muhammad Awad in Ramallah, Palestinian sources said.
Police rescued a 14-year-old girl within three hours of an alleged abduction in Sharsha, Jessore, and arrested a 21-year-old man under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said the Supreme Court's decision in the coal-allocation case ended years of allegations against former prime minister Manmohan Singh and criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
Police arrested Abbas Uddin, president of the banned Awami League's Krishak League unit in Maheshpur, in a 2024 explosives and sabotage case.
A French administrative court has upheld the closure of a mosque near Paris until January, after authorities objected to sermons that included Quranic verses and references to hell and punishment in the grave.
Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich praised the demolition of 26 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank, calling it essential to security and settlement expansion.
A phone conversation between Awami League leaders Obaidul Quader and Sheikh Fazle Shams Porosh was played at the International Crimes Tribunal during arguments in a crimes-against-humanity case.
Jamaat candidate Muhammad Nurul Amin has filed a leave-to-appeal petition against the High Court ruling that upheld the nomination of elected Chattogram-2 MP Sarwar Alamgir.
A section of students at NALSAR in Hyderabad have emailed the administration objecting to the choice of India's Chief Justice, Surya Kant, as chief guest at the 2026 convocation, BBC Telugu reports.