The family of one of the two boys, who died after falling into a drainage pipe in their school, have accused the school authorities of negligence in duty in a case filed on Tuesday.

Two teenage girls were raped in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj yesterday, said Sub-inspector of Bandar Police Station, Md Barek.

Bangladesh Coast Guard seized around 20 lakh shrimp fries from a fish depot in Barguna’s Taltola upazila last evening.

Two men -- suspected to be robbers -- were killed after being beaten up by a mob at Belabo upazila in Narsingdi last night.

About 53 tonnes of sugar, worth around Tk 33 lakh, has been stolen from a warehouse of state-owned Kushtia Sugar Mills.

Hefajat-e Islam leaders Maulana Sajidur Rahman and Mufti Mubarak Ullah, who were allegedly involved in the Brahmanbaria mayhem on March 26-28, have secured posts on the newly formed central committee of the Islamist organisation.

Delwar Hossain, then executive engineer of Gazipur City Corporation, was killed last year over a disagreement with his colleague Mohammad Selim over the latter’s illegal activities, a police probe has found.

After a year-long investigation, police have pressed charges against three people, including a sacked assistant engineer of Gazipur City Corporation, in a case filed over the murder of executive engineer Delwar Hossain in May last year.

Police have arrested Zahirul Islam Jumman, convener of the Brahmanbaria Sainik League, six days after Prothom Alo's reporter Shahadat Hossain was attacked by his younger brother Roman Miah, when Shahadat was on professional duty in the district’s railway station area.

Rab claims to have arrested a man who allegedly embezzled Tk 10 crore Titas gas bill, instead of depositing to national treasury after collecting the money from customers.

Police have found information about Hefajat-e Islam’s former joint secretary general Mamunul Haque’s involvement in local and external militant organisations.

Police claimed to have arrested nine members of a bike-stealing gang along with 11 stolen motorcycles from different parts of Brahmanbaria’s Sadar upazila.

A Narayanganj court sent Hefajat-e-Islam’s former joint secretary general Mamunul Haque to Kashimpur Central Jail yesterday on completion of his 18-day remand in six cases filed over rape and violence.

A court in Kushtia sent a former office assistant of the district election office to jail last evening in connection with National Identity Card (NID) forgery case.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have seized over seven kilogrammes of gold, 11,000 bottles of Phensedyls and other smuggled goods worth around Tk 10 crore after conducting drives in various border areas of Jashore in the last five months.

A local newspaper editor in Rajshahi sued two journalists of another local daily under the Digital Security Act yesterday.

A Khulna court today sent a local journalist to jail in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act (DSA).

Police's Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit say they have arrested two active members of the banned militant group Ansar al-Islam.

A Dhaka court today placed MA Awal, former lawmaker from Lakshmipur-1 constituency, on a two-day remand in an extortion case.

Criminal Investigation Department claimed to have arrested a man from Dhaka’s Mohakhali area yesterday on charge of amassing over Tk 50 crore through fraudulence from traders.