A Dhaka court has placed Monir Hossain Kashemi, finance affairs secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam's now-dissolved central committee, on a fresh three-day remand in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.

A Dhaka court today placed an imam and his accomplice on a five-day remand in connection with a case filed over the death of an RMG worker in the capital's Dakshinkhan area.

Members of detective branch of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) have arrested two persons and recovered two large elephant tusks from them after conducting drives at Karnaphuli's Maijjartek area in the port city on Monday.

Investigators are unlikely to submit a probe report in the case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir over the death of a college girl at a Gulshan flat in the capital.

Ex-MP MA Awal masterminded the murder of Pallabi trader Shahinuddin. He instructed people to carry out the killing, according to AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Anti-terrorism unit of police arrested a member of banned militant group Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) yesterday; nearly three years after a Rangpur court sentenced him to death for killing the caretaker of a mazar in 2015.

A Swechchhasebak League leader was arrested after a case was filed against him for physically assaulting an executive engineer of Natore Water Development Board.

Law enforcers recovered mutilated body of a man from the septic tank of a mosque in Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan area this morning.

Sumon Bepari, prime accused in the Shahinuddin murder case, confessed to a magistrate yesterday that he hired 12 other goons to kill the trader at the direction of former lawmaker MA Awal.

Mufti Amir Hamza, a prominent speaker on Islam, was arrested yesterday evening in connection with “misinterpreting the religion and spreading extremism at waz mahfils (religious programmes)”.

Sumon Bepari, the prime accused, today confessed to a magistrate about his involvement in killing trader Shahinuddin in Dhaka’s Pallabi area on May 16.

PBI officials probing the Mitu murder case will send the two books, seized from her husband and ex-police official Babul Akter as “evidence of his extramarital affairs”, to the CID for forensic examination.

Another accused in Shahinuddin murder case was killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in the capital’s Pallabi area early yesterday.

The body of a Dhaka University student, who had been missing for around a week, was found at the Shaheed Minar on Saturday and was later identified at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue yesterday evening.

The body of Hafizur Rahman, a student of Dhaka University who was missing for the last seven days, was found at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue today.

Another accused in a case filled following the murder of trader Shahinuddin was killed in a "gunfight" with detectives in Dhaka's Pallabi area early today.

The body of a man was recovered from a jute field in Budhar Banshertal area of Mahendranagar union in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila.

Two accused confessed to a magistrate yesterday that they were directly involved with the killing of a trader in front of his seven-year-old son in Dhaka's Pallabi area on May 16.

Chattogram police arrested three -- Monir Hossain (40), his wife Khuku Moni (28) and a CNG driver Mahfuz -- on May 21 for stealing Tk 27 lakh.

A local journalist was arrested yesterday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act over publication of a report against a former Awami League MP.