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. 

The Forest Department has filed a case against 12 people over killing of an elephant in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar.

The High Court today 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 at capital’s Gulshan from the victim support centre in order to ensure their welfare and a family environment for them.

The Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram today fined an organisation Tk 2.5 lakh for poor management of medical waste.

A sub-inspector (SI) of police was arrested after a woman filed a rape case against him with Gulshan Police Station this morning.

A Panchagarh court today sent two accused to jail for their alleged involvement in imposing a “fatwa on halala marriage” that led to a couple suffering in isolation for about four months after they disagreed to obey it.   

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.

A Dhaka court today granted bail to film actress Pori Moni in a narcotics case.

After a Dhaka court sentenced six militants to death for killing former USAID official Xulhaz Mannan, his brother Minhaz Mannan Emon today said that he didn’t know the killers.

Residents of an apartment building on Road 8 in Dhaka’s Shekhertek, along with members of animal welfare organizations, were attacked by their neighbours over sheltering a pregnant dog in the building yesterday.

A Dhaka court today sentenced six members of banned militant group Ansar al Islam to death for killing former USAID official Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in April 2016.

Workers’ deaths in the fire at Hashem Foods factory in Narayanganj was an act of "systematic killing", stated a report of the Citizen Probe Committee.

Police recovered bodies of two youths from a private car, in front of an automobile workshop, in Dhaka’s Segunbagicha area this morning.

A 65-year-old farmer was shot dead at Rangamati’s Kaptai last evening.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police have arrested 89 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city.

A man allegedly killed his wife and son over domestic dispute in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area last night.

One could have found a couple of hundred tragic tales inside the Jatiya Press Club hall room where families of victims of enforced disappearances gathered yesterday, but they had not come just to shed tears.

Around 9:00am on August 3, Badal Mia was selling fish on a pavement  in the capital’s Karwan Bazar when he received a video message on imo messaging app.  

A Dhaka tribunal is set to deliver today the verdict in the case filed over the murder of former USAID official Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy against eight members of banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam. 

An 18-year-old man confessed that he used to stalk girls in Singra and had killed a man for protesting his activities, police in Natore said yesterday.