Police arrested a madrasa superintendent on charge of attempting to rape a student in Khagrachhari’s Manikchhari early today.

A beggar was stabbed to death by another beggar when they went to receive zakat from a businessman’s house in Pabna’s Boro Bazar area this noon.

An abandoned dead body of a female -- aged between 30-35 -- has been recovered from Eliotganj of Daudkandi, by the Dhaka Chattogram highway on Saturday morning.

Advocate Maulana Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury, a former lawmaker from the Sunamganj-3 constituency, has been arrested and sent to Brahmanbaria jail in a case filed over Hefajat-e-Islam’s March 26 mayhem.

A rape case has been filed against Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of the recently dissolved Hefajat-e-Islam central committee, in Chattogram, said police.

Five doctors of Tangail General Hospital’s gynecology department were sued on Thursday for leaving a piece of gauze inside a woman’s abdomen during her C-section.

A rape case was filed against Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam’s now dissolved committee in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram early today.

Mowlana Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of the recently dissolved Hefajat-e-Islam central committee, was one of the financers of Chattogram mayhem, said police.

Body of a Dubai expat -- with a scarf around his neck -- was found on Kuril flyover in Dhaka early today.

Counter-terrorism officials claimed to have arrested an operative of the banned militant group Ansar al Islam, who was planning an attack on Jatiya Sangsad, and a preacher for his provocative speech.

The man, who publicly assaulted a rickshaw-puller in Dhaka's Bangshal area two days ago, has to stay in jail till May 23.

Police yesterday arrested a man for raping a minor girl in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur.

Detectives took around eight years just to analyse footage and collect evidence of the mayhem Hefajat carried in 2013 as it was a “big incident”, said AKM Hafiz Akter, additional commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday submitted a charge sheet against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed over the custodial death of Rayhan Ahmed.

Police today recovered the decomposed body of a child from a pond near Madbar Bazar in Jalkuri Taltola area of Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj.

Because the mayhem that Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh carried out across the country on May 5, 2013 was such a “big incident”, it took around 8-years to analyse the footage, sort out the evidence and take the testimony, police said today.

A woman died after she fell from a rickshaw as muggers from a private car pulled her bag in Dhaka’s Kamalapur area early this morning.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) submitted a charge-sheet today against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed in connection with the custodial killing of Rayhan Ahmed.

A man accused in four cases was stabbed to death by unidentified criminals in Khulna’s Sonagazi upazila today.

A man was shot dead by unidentified criminals in broad daylight in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila yesterday.