A Dhaka court ordered former minister and Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon to be shown arrested in a corruption case over alleged irregularities in teacher recruitment at Wills Little Flower School and College.
A Dhaka court on Wednesday (July 8) approved a petition to show former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque arrested in a case filed under the Explosives Act and on charges of attempted murder over an attack during the July 2024 mass uprising.
Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed has warned all members of the National Parliament over the incident of a member of parliament using his mobile phone in the session hall during a session. He said in the ruling, "Please do not use your phone in parliament; this is against the rules and this instruction applies to everyone. This is the expectation to uphold the dignity of the parliament."
A Dhaka court has placed two accused on a two-day remand in a case filed over a crude bomb blast at the National Citizen Party's (NCP) rally in Savar.
Continuous heavy rainfall has practically turned Chattogram into a city of water. The Meteorological Department has recorded 412 millimeters of rainfall in the port city in the last 24 hours, which is the highest in the last 42 years. Earlier, on August 4, 1983, the highest rainfall in 24 hours was recorded at 511 millimeters. As a result, this time the rainfall is the second highest in the history of Chattogram, but the highest in more than four decades.
A court has sentenced three people to death and two others to life imprisonment in a case over the abduction and murder of eight-year-old Mahfuz in Kashiani, Gopalganj, 14 years after the incident. Each convict has also been fined Tk 50,000.