A Pabna court yesterday sentenced two people to death in connection with a case for killing a man after abduction.

Members of a robbers’ gang stabbed a bus driver to death in Rangpur’s Pirganj upazila and looted valuables from a passenger bus early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday observed that courts “abused” their authorities by placing Pori Moni in remand for multiple times in a drug case.

A case was filed today against a man on charge of attempting to rape a nine-year-old girl in Panchagargh sadar upazila.

A Chattogram court today accepted the Anti-Corruption Commission’s charge sheet against former Officer-in-charge (OC) of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and his wife Chumki Karan on the charge of amassing wealth illegally.

Police today arrested three officials of an organisation that exists only on paper, TKS Healthcare Service, for collecting fake approval showing Health Ministry permission to collect samples and conduct Covid-19 antigen tests.

Golam Sarwar Forkan, chairman of Amtali Upazila Parishad in Barguna, has been relieved of his post by the district’s court today over loan default.

A court in Pabna sentenced two people to death for killing a human hauler driver after abducting him in Ishwardi upazila of the district in 2015.

Border Guard Bangladesh members have detained 21 people, including women and children, while they were trying to cross Bangladesh-India border in Jhenaidah.

A Dhaka tribunal has sentenced a retired army official and his wife to 10 years’ imprisonment in a case filed for possessing counterfeit currencies of Tk 3 lakh at their residence.

Apparently, for only Tk 600, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was stabbed to death in Balpur village under Jashore Sadar upazila. Last night, he passed away at Jashore General Hospital.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police have arrested 60 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city.

Film actress Pori Moni was released from jail this morning, four weeks after Rab arrested her.

A Dinajpur court yesterday denied bail to an ASP, ASI and a constable of the Criminal Investigation Department in Rangpur who stand accused in an abduction case.

Miscreants from Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar electrocuted an Asian elephant and mutilated the mammal, in an apparent attempt to cover up the killing.

Due to frequent killings and shrinking of their habitat in the absence of concrete protective measures by the government, wild elephants face serious threats to their survival in the country.

A sub-inspector of Police was arrested after a woman filed a rape case against him with Gulshan Police Station yesterday morning.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned to immediately shift the two Japanese children of Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif and Japanese national Eriko Nakano to a residence in the capital’s Gulshan from the victim support centre in order to ensure their welfare and a family environment for them.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to actor Pori Moni in a narcotics case.

The common goal of the Ansar al Islam militants who killed LGBT rights activist Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy was to clamp down on people’s freedom of expression and independent activities by creating terror in the country.