A jailed Awami League leader has won the presidency of the Kurigram District Judge Court Law Clerks’ and Legal Assistants’ Association by a margin of 69 votes, just two days after his arrest. Abdul Baten, a law clerk, secured 209 votes in the triennial election held on Thursday, 1 October. His closest rival, Faruk Ahmed, […]

A Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leader has been removed from all organisational positions after being accused of taking milk allocated for primary school pupils under a school feeding programme in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad. Nadim Mahmud, joint general secretary of Swarupkathi Government College Chhatra Dal and office secretary of Baldia Union Chhatra Dal, has been relieved of […]

A Dhaka court has granted four days’ remand for Obaidur Rahman, maternal uncle of Mariam Akter, the second wife of Satkhira-4 MP Gazi Nazrul Islam, in a case filed over her death. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ripon Hossain passed the order on Thursday after hearing arguments from both the prosecution and the defence. State lawyer Harun-or-Rashid […]

A Jubo Dal leader was seriously injured after allegedly being called to a location in Dhaka’s Mahakhali and attacked with sharp weapons on Thursday night. The injured man, identified as 33-year-old Talha Rahman, serves as the senior joint convener of the Jubo Dal’s Ward 20 unit in Mahakhali. He is the son of Hafizur Rahman […]