Three policemen today gave depositions before a court in a case filed over death of Rayhan Ahmed, who died after allegedly being tortured inside Bandarbazar Police Outpost in Sylhet city on October 11.

Police have arrested a young man for allegedly raping a woman in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat.

An eleven-year-old madrasa student was raped by her teacher multiple times in Chattogram's Banshkhali upazila.

Bangladesh is likely to sign a Preferential Trade Agreement with Bhutan soon as the two countries are eager to boost trade.

Article 70 of the constitution has crippled the parliamentary system of government as MPs cannot vote against the party’s decision as they will lose their membership in the Jatiya Sangsad if they do that, Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader said today.

Finishing the trial proceedings of a rape case in Bagerhat within seven days reflects the sincerity of the government to ensure justice quickly, Law Minister Anisul Huq has said.

Rapid Action Battalion detained seven members of a gang that the elite force says is involved in illegal drugs from Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area.

In the wake of Covid-19 reemergence in several countries, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all to follow health guidelines and use face-masks in public places and gatherings -- to prevent the possible second wave of the pandemic in Bangladesh.

Some 4,315 women and children became victims of violence during August-September, following withdrawal of coronavirus-induced shutdown and resumption of regular activities. Of them, 99 percent were victims of domestic violence. Fifty-six percent included women abused by their husbands, and children by their parents. Other family members and in-laws were also among perpetrators.

Two people have been arrested in connection with the gang-rape of a readymade garment factory worker in Bandarban.

Twenty-one people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours with total number of deaths now standing at 5,681 and the death rate at 1.46 percent, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The High Court today issued a rule asking the authorities concerned of the government to explain in two weeks why photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol should not be granted bail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

A Dhaka court today granted ad-interim bail to Rashedul Haque Chisty, son of Farmers Bank Ltd’s former chairman of audit committee Mabubul Haque Chisty, in two graft cases.

Two women have been driven out of their houses along with their children for failing to pay dowry in Patuakhali’s Baufal and Barguna’s Amtali upazilas.

A Dhaka tribunal today took cognisance of charges against ATM Azharul Islam, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, and 149 others in a case filed under Explosive Substances Act.

A Bagerhat court today sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a child in Mongla upazila. The verdict was announced within seven working days of the incident.

At least 25 people, including three policemen, were injured in a clash between police and former jute mill workers on Khulna-Jashore highway today.

Following a report published on The Daily Star, a Supreme Court lawyer today served a legal notice to the government to form a committee in three days to probe into negligence in renovating the two-century-old twin temples at Muktagachha in Mymensingh and to take appropriate action against the officials responsible for the negligence.

The plaintiff of a murder case was allegedly abducted on Saturday, tortured overnight and forced him to sign on a blank paper in Rowmari upazila of Kurigram.

Bodies of two siblings have been recovered from the No Mans’ Land along Bangladesh-India border in Parshuram upazila of Feni.