The Detective Branch of Chattogram Metropolitan Police claimed to have arrested three persons with 80 grammes of crystal meth and 5,000 yaba pills from port city’s Bridge Ghata area yesterday.

A Sunamganj court yesterday deferred the bail hearing of Jubo League leader Arindam Chowdhury Apu who is accused of assaulting a sub-inspector of Shalla Police Station.

The High Court yesterday refused to pass an order on a writ petition filed by Dhaka Residential Model College seeking its directive on the Prothom Alo to give Tk 100 crore as compensation to the college and the family of its student Naimul Abrar Rahat who was electrocuted to death in 2019.

Companiganj upazila parishad vice-chairman and his family members came under attack by some armed men yesterday afternoon.

Police arrested an accused in a case filed over gang-rape with Ruhea Police Station in Thakurgaon’s Sadar upazila.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has been directed to investigate the Narayanganj Hashem Food and Beverage Factory fire case that killed 51 people, in an order issued by the Police Headquaters today.

A Dhaka court today rejected three bail petitions of Hefajat-e-Islam's former joint secretary general Maulana Mamunul Haque in three cases filed with Paltan Police Station.

The Supreme Court today suspended enrolment of Barrister Muhammad Ashraful Islam as a lawyer until further order for demanding resignation of the chief justice through a Facebook post.

The High Court refused to pass an order today on a writ petition filed by Dhaka Residential Model College seeking its directive on Prothom Alo to pay Tk 100 crore compensation to the college and the family of its student Naimul Abrar Rahat who was electrocuted to death in 2019.

Police in Sunamganj arrested two people, including a Jubo League leader, on Tuesday in a case filed over assaulting a sub-inspector of Shalla Police Station. 

Abdul Awal Khan, a trader from Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila, has been in jail and death row for the last 17 years for “killing his wife”. But he is soon to be a free man as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday acquitted him of the murder charge.

A woman was raped in Balua Bazar bus stand area of Gaibandha Sadar upazila on Monday evening, said police, quoting the victim.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by the members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Mahishtuli Baroghari border in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila early yesterday.

A Rohingya man was beaten to death at Noyapara refugee camp in Teknaf upazila early yesterday over longstanding enmity with his rivals.

A homemaker has been strangled to death at Bilharibari village of the upazila on yesterday morning.

Rab arrested a man, who was sued under the Digital Security Act (DSA), in Sylhet early yesterday.

In a two-day mobile court drive, authorities unearthed a fake fertiliser and pesticide factory at Dhaka’s Keraniganj upazila, and seized counterfeit products worth Tk 150 crore.

Four people have been arrested today in a case filed over a clash centering a land dispute that killed one person and injured ten others at Kismat Haripur village in Boda upazila of Panchagarh on Tuesday.    

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain today constituted 38 virtual benches of the High Court for hearing and disposing of cases only for tomorrow (Thursday) as the court will go on two-day weekly holiday on Friday followed by a two-week annual vacation.

The High Court today came down hard on business organisations including Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI) for not playing effective role over the incident of Narayanganj factory fire that killed 51 people and injured several.