A special tribunal established to ensure speedy trials in cases of violence against children has sentenced six defendants in nine months, including two to death and four to life imprisonment.
The Cabinet has approved the list of government holidays for 2027. There will be 22 days of government holidays next year excluding weekly holidays. Of these, 15 days are general holidays and 14 days are government holidays by executive order. Altogether seven days of the proposed 29 days of holidays fall on weekly holidays. As a result, effective holidays will be 22 days.
British journalist David Bergman has criticised the National Citizen Party (NCP) for its position after the party criticised several media outlets for publishing news on the 80th birthday of former culture minister Asaduzzaman Noor. He alleged that the NCP is treating allegations of criminal offences as established truth without sufficient evidence.
The High Court has stayed a decision to dissolve the governing bodies of Fazil and Kamil madrasas across the country and attach those to the Islamic Arabic University.
A Dhaka court has ordered that Dilip Kumar Agarwala, managing director of Diamond World, be shown arrested in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over allegations of illegally acquiring wealth and laundering money.
Cyclone Murasu, which formed over the Bay of Bengal, has intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and is moving northwestwards, with a possible landfall along India's Andhra Pradesh coast on Monday night.