Jatiya Sangsad Whip Shamsul Haque yesterday filed a Tk 500-crore defamation case against 11 people, including Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and its Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, over publication of “fake, fabricated and baseless” news items in various newspapers and a TV channel run by the Group.

Businessperson-turned-politician Helena Jahangir confessed to a magistrate yesterday that she illegally possessed foreign liquor and currency at her residence.

The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed the death penalty of a convict, Shukur Ali, and commuted death sentences of three others to life imprisonment in a case filed for abduction, rape and killing of a 13-year-old girl in Kushtia in 2004.

From Myanmar to Dhaka, expensive crystal meth, along with pink yaba tablets, are pouring into the country through the border.

Four top leaders of newly formed BNP’s Dhaka north and south city units were sued yesterday, a day after the party activists and law enforcers clashed in the capital’s Chandrima Udyan.

A Chattogram court yesterday rejected another bail prayer of former superintendent of police Babul Akter in connection with a murder case filed with Panchlaish police station.

A teenager, who is accused in a gang rape case, was arrested in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi early yesterday.

Rab arrested six people for their alleged involvement in producing and marketing porn in Joypurhat’s Khetlal upazila on Tuesday night.

A Dhaka court today discharged Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir from the charges of the case filed over abetting the death by suicide of a college student in the capital’s Gulshan.

Police recovered the body of a minor from Satkhira’s Kolaroa upazila 22 hours after he went missing.

A protest was held in front of the house of Rashed Chowdhury -- one of the killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- in northern California, USA on National Mourning Day.

A court in Chattogram rejected the bail prayer again of former superintendent of police Babul Akter in a case filed over the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu on June 5, 2016.

A teenager was arrested today in connection with the gang-rape of a fifth grader in Narsingdi’s Raipura upazila.

A court in Thakurgaon sent a 13-year-old boy to jail over a case filed against him for attempting to rape a four-year-old in Sadar upazila of the district.

A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of Helana Jahangir, a businessperson turned politician, in a fraud case filed with Dhaka's Pallabi Police Station.

The High Court today confirmed the death sentence a woman and her associate for killing her husband in Jashore in 2014.

Detectives arrested nine alleged drug peddlers yesterday along with 88,000 pieces of yaba and 500 grams of crystal meth from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur and Jatrabari area.

The Supreme Court today affirmed the death penalty of Shukur Ali and commuted death sentences of three others to life imprisonment in a case filed for abduction, rape and murder of a 13-year-old in Kushtia in 2004.

Police today filed a case against 153 leaders and activists of BNP, following yesterday’s clash between the party men and law enforcers at Dhaka’s Chandrima Udyan.

Criminal Investigation Department has submitted a five-day remand prayer for film actress Pori Moni in a case filed with Banani Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act.