Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a Hefajat-e-Islam leader from the capital’s Lalbag area this evening.

Police have arrested three persons, including a mother and daughter, in a rape case at Madhukhali Upazila of Faridpur.

A man suffered bullet injury after a councillor allegedly opened fire at him over dispute centering the formation of a mosque committee in Raozan upazila of Chattogram today.

Miscreants killed an expatriate, visiting from Italy, in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila last night.

A man was brutally killed by unidentified assailants in Bogura’s Sadar upazila.

The body of a shop employee was found on a road near his residence in Bogura’s Sadar upazila early today.

Twenty years on from the 2001 Ramna Batamul bomb blasts which killed ten people at Pahela Baishakh celebrations, justice is yet to be delivered to the family members of the victims as the appeals and death reference in connection with the carnage case are still pending with the High Court.

Sirajganj police in October 2019 had recovered the decomposed body in Sadar thana area.

Police have arrested eight Jamaat-e-Islam activists from a secret meeting in Meherpur today. Of them, seven were female.

A teenager died and a juvenile was injured in an attack by members of a rival teen gang in Gazipur city last night.

A Dhaka court today placed Hefajat-e-Islam organising secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi on a seven-day remand in connection with the mayhem in the capital in May, 2013.

Six businessmen were arrested in a case filed in connection with the attack on Lalmonirhat’s Patgram Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Executive Magistrate of a mobile court Ram Krishna Barman during a drive on April 7.

Four members of Hefajat-e-Islam were placed on remand in Narayanganj today, a day after their arrest in two cases filed over the mayhem centering the "confinement" of Hefajat's Joint General Secretary Mamunul Haque at a resort in Sonargaon upazila of the district.

A woman was killed and two others were injured in a gun attack in Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today.

Police held a man on charges of sexually assaulting three children in Lalmonirhat yesterday.

The incident of abducting a man and demanding ransom for his release in the capital recently was pre-planned by the arrested elite force members, investigators said.

Jama’atul Mujahideen India, the Indian wing of mainstream JMB, was divided into three factions due to differences of opinion between leaders.

Police today arrested four people in connection with the abduction and rape of a 16-year-old from the port city’s Akbarshah area.

The Brahmanbaria Zila Parishad has ascertained damages -- caused due to the mayhem unleashed by Hefajat-e-Islam activists and supporters in the district from March 26 to 28.

Two suspected robbers were beaten to death by a mob in Lakhai upazila of Habiganj this morning.