A Union Parishad member was shot dead in Noakhali’s Hatia early today.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested 18 members of a ”teen gang” from different parts of Dhaka.

Dinajpur District Jail authorities, for the first time, executed a convict of a murder case.

Two teenage girls were raped in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj yesterday, said Sub-inspector of Bandar Police Station, Md Barek.

Bangladesh Coast Guard seized around 20 lakh shrimp fries from a fish depot in Barguna’s Taltola upazila last evening.

Two men -- suspected to be robbers -- were killed after being beaten up by a mob at Belabo upazila in Narsingdi last night.

After a year-long investigation, police have pressed charges against three people, including a sacked assistant engineer of Gazipur City Corporation, in a case filed over the murder of executive engineer Delwar Hossain in May last year.

Police have arrested Zahirul Islam Jumman, convener of the Brahmanbaria Sainik League, six days after Prothom Alo's reporter Shahadat Hossain was attacked by his younger brother Roman Miah, when Shahadat was on professional duty in the district’s railway station area.

Rab claims to have arrested a man who allegedly embezzled Tk 10 crore Titas gas bill, instead of depositing to national treasury after collecting the money from customers.

Police claimed to have arrested nine members of a bike-stealing gang along with 11 stolen motorcycles from different parts of Brahmanbaria’s Sadar upazila.

A court in Kushtia sent a former office assistant of the district election office to jail last evening in connection with National Identity Card (NID) forgery case.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have seized over seven kilogrammes of gold, 11,000 bottles of Phensedyls and other smuggled goods worth around Tk 10 crore after conducting drives in various border areas of Jashore in the last five months.

A local newspaper editor in Rajshahi sued two journalists of another local daily under the Digital Security Act yesterday.

A Khulna court today sent a local journalist to jail in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act (DSA).

Police's Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit say they have arrested two active members of the banned militant group Ansar al-Islam.

A Dhaka court today placed MA Awal, former lawmaker from Lakshmipur-1 constituency, on a two-day remand in an extortion case.

Criminal Investigation Department claimed to have arrested a man from Dhaka’s Mohakhali area yesterday on charge of amassing over Tk 50 crore through fraudulence from traders.

A Dhaka court today placed four members of a transnational human trafficking racket on a five-day remand each in a case filed for trafficking at least 500 young women and girls to India over the last five years and forcing them into prostitution.

One of the accused in the assault and gang-rape of a Bangladeshi woman in India’s Bengaluru was shot in the leg today when he allegedly tried to escape arrest.

Police arrested a grocery shop owner for raping a nine-year-old girl in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.