A man allegedly killed a 15-year-old girl after he failed to rape her in Dhaka’s Shaheed Minar area early today.

The conviction of Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul is a matter of sadness and shame for the country, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

With 2,080 pieces of Yaba stashed in his stomach, Golam Mostafa Mandal landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Cox’s bazar this afternoon.

A train generator operator allegedly raped a 21-year-old girl with physical disabilities on a moving train in Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar last night.

A 38-year-old man allegedly picked up a 16-year-old student from the road and raped her in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah on Thursday evening.

Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested two persons along with two kg gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area in Dhaka early today.

One month after he went missing, police recovered the decomposed body of a Jatiya Party leader from his farm house in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram early today.

A marine engineer and his wife were sent to jail by a Mymensingh court over the murder of their house help.

A man has been arrested in Rajbari’s Goalanda for allegedly trying to rape his step-daughter, an eighth grader.

The boy started working as a salesman at a clothes shop after he failed SSC exams. With a larger than life dream to be rich overnight, he fled from home and started treading the path of crime to realise his audacious aspiration, detectives said today.

A youth was shot to death in a clash yesterday between two groups of people of Jajira's Naodoba union in Shariatpur over a land dispute.

The High Court today refused to grant bail to former Faridpur town unit Awami League general secretary Sazzad Hossain Barkat and his brother Imtiaz Hasan alias Rubel in an extortion case involving Tk 50 lakh.

The probe committee has found negligence of two hostel-superintendents and five guards at Sylhet's MC College in ensuring security resulting in the gang-rape of a woman in the hostel in September last year, Supreme Court lawyer Md Mesbah Uddin told The Daily Star while disclosing details of the report today.

A Dhaka court today sent Abantika Boral, an aide to PK Halder, to jail on expiry of her three-day remand in connection with a graft case.

Police yesterday detained 16 boys from Dhaka's Hatirjheel area for allegedly harassing visitors there. They were later handed over to their parents upon receiving undertaking as they were not accused in any cases.

A man was stabbed to death, allegedly by his brother, at Pahartoli area this morning while voting was going in Chattogram City Corporation election with stray incidents of clashes.

A woman has been driven out of her house along with her mentally ill child for failing to pay dowry in the capital’s Darus Salam area.

An assistant commissioner of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been terminated for embezzling Tk 3.50 crore of tax money without depositing it to the government treasury.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have detained four members of a terrorist group from Jhenidah early today for kidnapping two college students from Khulna.

A Rohingya man was killed in an alleged gunfight between two groups of Rohingya at a refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today.