Police have arrested a man in a case filed in connection with the rape of a sixteen-year-old in Feni’s Daganbhuiyan upazila.

Eighteen fishermen have been missing for 22 days in the Bay of Bengal after they went fishing with their trawler from Kuakata of Patuakhali on December 9.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four people along with 97 bottles of phensidyl and 950 grams of cannabis from Sadar upazila of Feni last night.

The law ministry has planned to clear at least six lakh cases from the existing 38 lakh pending cases in the courts across the country in 2021.

The measurement of water level at different points of Padma River is going to kick off tomorrow (Saturday), jointly by Bangladesh and India under the Ganga Water-sharing Treaty-1996, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.

At least three people were killed and four were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a pick-up van on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway this morning.

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League was shot dead in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila early today.

Lottery for admissions to 683 government schools across the country from class 1 to 9 will take place on January 11.

Framers and agriculture officials in Chapainawabganj are expecting a bumper yield of mustard in the current season due to favourable weather.

Poaching of wildlife is alarmingly on the rise in Lawachhara National Park under Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila.

A woman was stabbed to death in broad daylight by one of her relatives allegedly over a trivial matter in Joypurhat town yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested three Jamuna Bank officials in Bogura and sent them to jail through a court in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk 15.86 crore by producing fake documents.

Police have arrested a man in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Bogura's Shibganj upazila.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has prepared a charge sheet against 29 people over the fire explosion at Baitus Salah Jame Masjid in Narayanganj which killed 24 people on September 4.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today greeted the people of Bangladesh on the eve of the New Year.

A Dhaka court today sent a 55-year-old man to jail on charge of raping an eight-year-old girl in Savar’s Aichanodda.

Transport owners and workers in Pabna have postponed their indefinite transport strike till Monday following request of the local administration, Habibur Rahman Habib, president of Pabna district unit of Transport Owners Association, confirmed to The Daily Star.

A Dhaka court today placed three people, including a bank official, on different terms of remand in connection with question leak of different university admissions and bank recruitment tests.

A parliamentary body today formed three separate sub-committees to investigate three different issues including finding out irregularities and corruption in realising toll from all bridges across the country including Dhaleswari River.

The High Court today directed the inspector general of police to give Tk 20 lakh as compensation to Md Arman, a technician at a Benarasi Palli in Mirpur, in 30 days as police personnel have wrongly arrested him and kept him in jail for around four years instead of the original accused in a drug case.