Police recently submitted a probe report without conducting a DNA test of the lone accused in the case filed over abetting the death by suicide of a college student, even though male DNA was found on the victim’s body.

Ismail Hasan Furkan, the key explosives expert and trainer of Neo-JMB, is at the top of the law enforcers’ wanted list as he continues to make most of its members efficient in producing bombs.

A case has been filed against a journalist under the Digital Security Act in Jhalakathi over making comments on a Facebook post. 

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-4) on Wednesday evening rescued an 11-year-old girl, four days after she was abducted.

Police yesterday arrested Kulsuma Akhter, a murder case convict who reportedly sent another innocent woman to jail in her place. 

Rab last night arrested businessperson-turned-politician Helena Jahangir, who was recently sacked from the Awami League sub-committee on women’s affairs over her controversial posts on Facebook.

The authorities of Dhaka’s United Hospital have paid Tk 25 lakh each as initial payment to families of the four patients who died in a fire at its Covid-19 isolation unit on May 27 last year.

A case has been lodged under Digital Security Act against a journalist in Jhalakathi over a comment made on a Facebook post. 

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has nominated Justice Obaidul Hassan, a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, as chamber judge in order to dispose of urgent cases virtually till further order.

Detectives claimed to have arrested three alleged “contract killers” from Chandpur and Dhaka.

Hearing on acceptance of the probe report -- that cleared Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir of charges of abetting the suicide of a college student -- will be held after regular court reopens.

Nine Rohingya refugees, who reportedly escaped from their camps in Cox's Bazar, have been detained from Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram.

Natore Awami League President Abdul Quddus has alleged that he cannot reside in the district town for fear of attacks by criminals.

Criminals killed a union-level Awami League leader in Bogura Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.

A Noakhali court yesterday sent a home tutor to jail for his alleged involvement in the rape of a teenage girl in the district’s Chatkhil upazila.

A teenage boy was stabbed to death by over a trifling matter in Magura Sadar Municipality area on Tuesday night.

A severed human leg was found under the Railla Bridge at Saturia upazila of Manikganj today.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested a suspected member of a human trafficking gang in Faridpur.

The High Court today refused to grant bail to a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist of Jhalakathi district, Md Toriqul Islam Opu, in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for his “derogatory comment” on social media about senior Awami League leader Amir Hossain Amu and one Sumaiya Hossain.

Lalmonirhat’s Palashi Union Parishad Chairman Shawkat Ali and his wife, Anwara Begum, were arrested today in connection with a case filed over assaulting a 90-year-old woman.