Staff Reporter
Prices of some essential goods are going beyond purchasing capacity of common people, specially, lower-and middle-income group. Every month they are spending big amount of money for unnatural price hiking of essential commodities. The unscrupulous traders in wholesale and retail markets recently have increased the prices of essential foodstuffs like ata (whole meal flour), [...]

Staff Reporter
Oliullah Noman, special correspondent of Amar Desh, was released after serving one month imprisonment from the Central Jail on Thursday.Noman was the first journalist in the country to embrace imprisonment in a contempt case.Accompanied by his professional colleagues, journalists’ leaders, lawyers and civil society members, Noman came out of Dhaka Central Jail at [...]

bdnews24.com, Dhaka
The government in its rash drive against Pabna officials has sent two additional deputy commissioners (ADC), two days after it withdrew the deputy commissioner and police superintendent.Bijoy Bhushan Paul and Imamuddin Kabir have been made officer on special duty (OSD) to the establishment ministry, a government circular said on Thursday. The positions have been [...]

Staff Reporter
The new Chief Justice, ABM Khairul Haque, yesterday urged the Government to reprint the Constitution containing its original provisions as these were automatically reestablished with the Fifth Amendment verdict.He said this at a reception in the Supreme Court after taking oath at a ceremony at Bangabhaban.Expressing satisfaction over formation of special parliamentary committee on [...]

Reuters, Lucknow
A court ruled on Thursday the site of a demolished mosque in Ayodhya would be divided between Hindus and Muslims, in a ruling that could appease both groups in one of the country’s most divisive cases.The court in Uttar Pradesh also ruled that Hindu idols could stay on the disputed land, lawyers added.The demolition [...]

Staff Reporter
Two senior judges of the Supreme Court have gone on leave. They were superseded while appointing the new Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque.According to sources, Justice Md Abdul Matin, the senior most judge of the Appellate Division has sought leave of absence up to December 25. He is scheduled to retire on December [...]

Staff Reporter
Unidentified criminals slaughtered three members of a family at their Shaheed Faruk Road residence at Jatrabari in the capital yesterday.The victims were identified as businessman Mizanur Rahman, 55, his mother Sufia Khatun, 75, and his wife Bithi Rahman, 40. Among the victims, Sufia and Bithi died on the spot while Mizan succumbed to his [...]

Staff Reporter
Different organisations yesterday expressed concern over the Government’s plea on sending troops to Afghanistan to help the coalition forces in the war-ravaged country.Mentioning the Taliban recent warning, Bangladesh National Awami Party (Bangladesh NAP) said the country should not send troops to Afghanistan, as it is a sensitive issue involving the country’s national interest. [...]

bdnews24.com, Dhaka
Washington has ‘intensified’ its efforts for Bangladeshi engagement in Afghanistan, a US embassy official said on Thursday, two days after the Taliban cautioned Dhaka against sending troops to the war-ravaged country. “The United States has intensified its discussion on Bangladesh’s engagement in Afghanistan for global peace and stability,” Nicholas Dean, the current charge d’affaires [...]

Mohammad Ali
The appointment of the new Chief Justice superseding the senior most judge of the Appellate Division was an issue of discussion among the law practitioners on the Supreme Court premises yesterday.It also raised various questions among the concerned quarters as the appointment was made public by the media.President Mohammad Zillur Rahman, as per Article [...]