Actor Meher Afroz Shaon, wife of celebrated novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed sued two people yesterday over stealing some of his paintings.

Two people, including a student, were arrested by Bogura Cyber Police early today for allegedly sharing old video footage on social media, claiming it was current video footage.

Two days after a deadly explosion in a building at Dhaka’s Moghbazar area, another body was recovered from the debris today -- raising the death toll to eight.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have detained a 31-year-old Nigerian national in Sylhet for allegedly entering Bangladesh illegally from India.

A student of Jagannath University (JnU) today filed a case with Sutrapur Police Station in Old Dhaka against a man yet to be identified for sexual harassment.

A Rohingya youth, who escaped from Cox’s Bazar camp three days back, was arrested on charge of snatching a mobile phone in Feni town last night.

Hefajat-e-Islam's former Assistant Secretary-General Maulana Monjurul Islam Afendi was placed on a five-day remand today in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.

The Supreme Court today scrapped a High Court directive that asked the Non-government Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) to recommend to the authorities concerned to recruit around 2,500 contempt of court petitioners, who qualified relevant exams, as teachers of private educational institutions.

Police today arrested two people from Noakhali’s Sonaimuri municipality in a case filed over the rape of a teenager.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) have arrested a sub-Inspector (SI) of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) and recovered 11,560 pieces of yaba pills from his possession.

Special action group of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) arrested three members of banned militant group Ansar Al Islam on Saturday night from Dhaka’s Rampura area.

Rab claimed to have arrested four alleged drug traders along with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and a “new drug” N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) from Dhaka’s Tejgaon industrial area last night.

A former member of the United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) was abducted and stabbed to death in the remote Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari district early today.

A youth sedated two teenagers and raped them in Cox’s Bazar Chakaria upazila when their family members were not home on Tuesday.

Police on Friday night arrested six alleged rapists on charge of gang-raping a garment worker in two separate incidents in Sitakunda and Mirsarai upazilas of Chattogram.

Border Guard of Bangladesh has arrested an alleged member of an international organ smuggling racket from Benapole check-post area.

Police arrested three youths on charge of raping a 16-year-old at Savar last night.

Customs officials seized a consignment of Viagra (weighing 26kg), valued at Tk 50 lakh, that had been imported under false declaration through Benapole land port last night, reports our local correspondent quoting the port’s deputy director.

He was released after serving 22 years in jail in a murder case.

Police have arrested three men over the gang-rape of a 16-year-old garment factory worker at Savar’s Joynabari area.