Mob violence has been occurring in the country for years. But the recent spate of mugging and robbery has apparently caused a surge in such incidences.

The Ministry of Social Welfare has suspended Md Jahid Hasan, the upazila social services officer of Paba, Rajshahi, following allegations of assaulting an auto-rickshaw driver, said an official order issued on Monday.

The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict tomorrow on an appeal challenging the High Court judgement that sentenced BNP's acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his close aide Gias Uddin Al Mamun to seven years' imprisonment in a money laundering case.

The two people who were killed in a mob beating “on suspicion of being robbers” in Chattogram’s Satkania upazila’s on Monday night were identified as active members of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, said police.

A murder case has been filed seven days after the death of Shihab Kabir Nahid during an attack and clash near an under-construction Air Force base beside the airport in Cox’s Bazar.

Robbers got into the bank after breaking a grille of a window, say police

Police arrested a man on charges of murdering his pregnant wife and sister-in-law in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba upazila early yesterday

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today started hearing 18 appeals regarding fixing the minimum age of freedom fighters during the country's Liberation War in 1971.

Police suspect the murder was linked to a dispute over money for drug abuse

Nahid Hasan Saddam, joint general secretary of Rangpur district unit of Jubo League, was arrested this afternoon in connection with a case filed over the death of Mahmudul Hasan Munna during the anti-discrimination student movement in Rangpur last year

A Dhaka court today sent Mohammad Imran Hossain, owner of Sadeeq Agro, to jail after rejecting his bail in a case filed over laundering of Tk 133 crore.

After a three-year long legal battle over a vote rigging allegation, Shamsul Huda has been sworn in as the chairman of Borobil Union Parishad (UP) in Rangpur

Police recovered body of a teenage girl from the Manu river at Hajipur union in Moulvibazar's Kulaura upazila yesterday.

The incident happened yesterday morning when the child was buying candy from a shop

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court verdict acquitting BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and two others in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

The other three are the director general of the Department of Environment, Dhaka's deputy commissioner and managing director of Millennium Housing Limited

The High Court yesterday acquitted Mahmudur Rahman, editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh, of a corruption case in which he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by a lower court

Two suspected robbers were beaten to death by villagers during an attempted robbery in Satkania upazila of Chattogram last night.

"Operation Devil Hunt" will continue with a more focused approach based on ongoing assessments, Nasimul Ghani, senior secretary to the home ministry, said yesterday. 

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has made civil surgeons of 29 districts officers on special duty (OSD) and attached them to the Directorate General of Health Services.