Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir was sued yesterday over the rape and murder of a college student in a flat at the capital’s Gulshan.

The National Central Bureau (NCB) of the Police Headquarters (PHQ) has written to its counterpart in India to start the process of extraditing Banani Police Inspector Sheikh Sohel Rana, who was recently held by Indian Border Security Forces for trespassing.

Savar police yesterday pressed charges against three people, including Uttara Club Limited’s former president Nasir U Mahmud and his associate Tuhin Siddiqui Omi, in an attempted rape and murder case filed by actor Pori Moni. 

Seventeen jewelry stores and a grocery store were robbed at gunpoint in Noarhat Bazar, Savar, early yesterday.

Unidentified criminals killed an elderly couple at Subarnapur village under Panchthubi union in Sadar upazila early yesteray.

The High Court today issued a rule asking the government to explain why it should not be directed to establish a trust as well as an assistance fund to provide compensation to the victims of road accidents or their families.

The High Court today stayed for three months the recruitment of 138 teachers and staff members of Rajshahi University (RU) as they were allegedly appointed by the then Vice Chancellor Prof M Abdus Sobhan on May 5, the last days of his office, in violation of relevant law and rules.

Police detained nine leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami including its Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar from Dhaka’s Basundhara residential area this evening. He is also a former lawmaker.

Japanese national Eriko Nakano today filed an application with the High Court seeking its permission to go out with her minor daughters for shopping and recreational activities, as they are at a house in Gulshan in line with its earlier directive.

Police today pressed charges against three people, including Uttara Club Limited's former president Nasir U Mahmud and his associate Tuhin Siddiqui Omi in an attempt to rape and murder case filed by film actor Pori Moni.

In a major drive across the country yesterday, mobile courts assisted by Rab members, sentenced 249 brokers at government offices and hospitals to varying jail terms.

Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sohan Anvir, Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan Shah Alam and six others were sued today over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka’s Gulshan area in April this year.

A Dhaka court fixed September 14 for hearing arguments in a money laundering case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others.

A Dhaka court has issued a travel ban against suspended Inspector Sheikh Sohel Rana of Banani Police Station and five officials of e-commerce platform E-orange -- in a case filed for embezzling around Tk 88.98 lakh.

An elderly couple was strangled to death by miscreants at Subarnapur village, under Panchthubi union of Cumilla Sadar upazila, early today.

The High Court today rebuked Nayan Kumar, an inspector of Criminal Investigation Department of police in Naogaon, for forcibly taking confessional statement from a murder victim’s brother, a minor, in Bogura in 2015.

Seventeen jewellery shops and a grocery store were looted at Noarhat Bazar in Savar early today.

In its second phase, a Cox’s Bazar court resumed recording deposition of witnesses in Major (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan's murder case.

Inspector Sheikh Sohel Rana of Banani Police Station -- detained in India for trespassing -- was suspended yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday interrogated former vice president of International Leasing and Financial Services (ILFS) Nahida Runai and a director of a private company in connection with cases filed over embezzlement.