A Jhalakathi court today sent a journalist, arrested under the Digital Security Act, to jail.

A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death in Dhaka's Uttara yesterday night, while another was seriously injured in the attack.

Six more people have been arrested in the last 24 hours for their alleged involvement in the violence and arson attacks in different places of Brahmanbaria unleashed by the activists of Hefajat-e-Islam from March 26 to March 28, said police.

A man allegedly killed his wife in Bagerhat yesterday over posting “offensive” photos on TikTok.

Five policemen have been injured in an attack carried out by drug smugglers at Darshana in Chuadanga, police said today.

Police arrested a madrasa superintendent on charge of attempting to rape a student in Khagrachhari’s Manikchhari early today.

A beggar was stabbed to death by another beggar when they went to receive zakat from a businessman’s house in Pabna’s Boro Bazar area this noon.

An abandoned dead body of a female -- aged between 30-35 -- has been recovered from Eliotganj of Daudkandi, by the Dhaka Chattogram highway on Saturday morning.

Advocate Maulana Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury, a former lawmaker from the Sunamganj-3 constituency, has been arrested and sent to Brahmanbaria jail in a case filed over Hefajat-e-Islam’s March 26 mayhem.

A rape case was filed against Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam’s now dissolved committee in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram early today.

Body of a Dubai expat -- with a scarf around his neck -- was found on Kuril flyover in Dhaka early today.

Counter-terrorism officials claimed to have arrested an operative of the banned militant group Ansar al Islam, who was planning an attack on Jatiya Sangsad, and a preacher for his provocative speech.

The man, who publicly assaulted a rickshaw-puller in Dhaka's Bangshal area two days ago, has to stay in jail till May 23.

Police today recovered the decomposed body of a child from a pond near Madbar Bazar in Jalkuri Taltola area of Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj.

Because the mayhem that Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh carried out across the country on May 5, 2013 was such a “big incident”, it took around 8-years to analyse the footage, sort out the evidence and take the testimony, police said today.

A woman died after she fell from a rickshaw as muggers from a private car pulled her bag in Dhaka’s Kamalapur area early this morning.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) submitted a charge-sheet today against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed in connection with the custodial killing of Rayhan Ahmed.

A man accused in four cases was stabbed to death by unidentified criminals in Khulna’s Sonagazi upazila today.

Police have arrested a man on charge of raping a teenage girl in Khulna’s Rupsha upazila today.

Police have arrested Mufti Abdur Rahim Quasemi, the former joint general secretary of the Hefajat-e-Islam Brahmanbaria district and a member of the central committee, who earlier resigned from the organisation seeking justice of those involved in the violence on March 26 to 28 in the district.