Film actress Pori Moni filed a bail petition today with a Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court challenging the lower court's rejection in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.

A Dhaka court today granted bail to film actress Semon Hasan Eka in a case filed against her with Hatirjheel Police Station for torturing house help.

The High Court today rebuked Nayan Kumar, an inspector of Criminal Investigation Department of police in Naogaon for forcibly taking confessional statement from a deceased's brother, who is also a minor in Bogura.

Three relatives of a patient were sedated and robbed at Dhaka Medical College Hospital last night.

A former schoolteacher was killed allegedly by one of her elder sister over a dispute, centring share of their ancestral property, in Indurkani upazila yesterday.

The local administration and the ruling Awami League men in Barishal appear to be at loggerheads following the violence in front of Barishal Sadar UNO’s office which left around 50 people injured on Wednesday night.

Alongside yaba, drug traders are now peddling the high-priced synthetic drug crystal meth, also called “ice”, according to narcotics officials.

Pori Moni yesterday expressed displeasure with her lawyers in the courtroom for not filing any bail petition in the narcotics case.

Police arrested two men on charge of gang-raping a teenager, making a video of the incident and then stealing her jewellery in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.

Detectives have arrested a convict in a case filed over the attack on the motorcade of the then opposition leader and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.

A woman was killed today, allegedly by her elder sister, over property dispute in Pirojpur’s Indurkani upazila.

Two youths have been arrested on charge of raping a high school student and recording the crime in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali.

Film actress Pori Moni was sent to jail today on completion of her one-day remand, in the third phase, in a case filed with Banani Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act.

Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) detained 10 persons along with 500 grams of crystal meth and 5,000 pieces of yaba from Dhaka’s Uttara and Bashundhara Residential Area yesterday. 

Twenty-two people were arrested till this afternoon in two cases filed in connection with the clashes between leaders, activists of Chhatra League, Jubo League, Awami League and police, Ansar in Barishal.

A union parishad chairman in Sirajganj has been suspended for allegedly taking money from people on the pretext of giving them houses under the Ashrayan project in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj.

The High Court yesterday directed Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif to produce his daughters before it on August 31 after his Japanese wife Eriko Nakano, who moved to Bangladesh, filed a writ petition for custody of their children.

A political rivalry between two Awami League stalwarts in Barishal city triggered the violence on the premises of sadar UNO’s office on Wednesday night, leaving at least 50 people injured.

Final justice has yet to be delivered over the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally on the capital’s Bangabandhu Avenue, even almost three years after a trial court found 49 people guilty.

Last year, Md Selim and Mahbuba Parvin gave interviews to different media outlets to express their anguish and dismay over the delay in implementing the verdict over the August 21, 2004 grenade attack.