One of the four youths arrested last month in the Tavella murder case told a magistrate yesterday that MA Matin, younger brother of a BNP leader, is the “Boro Bhai”, who hired him for Tk 5 lakh to shoot and injure any foreigner in the capital's Gulshan to create panic in the area.

When publisher Dipan was parking his car on the east side of Aziz Super Market on Saturday afternoon, a youth was caught “suspiciously moving” by a CCTV camera. About half an hour later, the same youth was seen leaving the market along with five others.

With no visible progress of the probe into Saturday's attacks on publishers and bloggers, which left one dead and three injured, Detective Branch of police was given the charge of the investigation yesterday.

The police recovered the body of a female readymade garment worker from a crop field beside her house at Banesshor

A faction of the anti-war crimes Gonojagoron Mancha will lead a “coffin” procession towards the home ministry

Detective Branch of police are asked to investigate the recent attacks on publishers and bloggers that killed one and injured three others.

Shakhawat Hossain alias Sharif, one of the four suspected murderers of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella, yesterday told a Dhaka court that the three others were directly involved in the killing and that he did not have any role in the murder.

The family of Shafiqul Islam, a 32-year-old school teacher who has been missing for last four months, yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with police investigation.

A faction of Gonojagoron Mancha and several other organisations yesterday demonstrated in the capital in protest against killing of publisher Dipan and attacks on three others.

Both of them were left shell-shocked by the brutal murders of their loved ones. But that sense of shock gave way to anger and frustration. This was clear in their statements circulated in the mass and social media.

Making way through the crowd that gathered around the body of her husband at the car park of Poet Sufia Kamal Hall of Dhaka University, she said, “I promise. I'll come. You can't live without me.” Looking at his face, she continued, “I know you can't live without me. Didn't you say we'd go to visit Cox's Bazar after the Book Fair? How will you stay without me? We'll all come. I promise.”

Aggrieved by the brutal murder of one of their colleagues, book shop owners and businessmen of Aziz Cooperative Super Market in Shahbagh will keep their shops closed till tomorrow.

Five Ghoroa Restaurant employees gave judicial statements yesterday on witnessing the owner, Ariful Islam Sohel,

A female cleaner was found dead at a hotel, where she used to work, at Fakirapool in the capital yesterday.

Detectives investigating the murder of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella are now connecting the dots based on information gleaned from the three arrested youths who, according to police, directly took part in the killing.

The Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal yesterday again deferred the date to record testimonies of witnesses in the former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case as nine out of the 14 accused did not appear before it.

The International Crimes Tribunal's investigation agency yesterday said it had found evidence of the involvement of two persons in crimes committed in Shariatpur during Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971.

Seven days have passed since a doctor of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) was hacked in his house at Agrabad in Chittagong

Three professional killers had shot dead Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella as part of a conspiracy to create anarchy, put pressure on the government and send a message to foreigners that they are not safe in Bangladesh, police claimed yesterday.

Three people were found dead in Dhamrai and Savar in the last two days.