Police arrested a college teacher on charge of torturing her house help to death in Dhaka’s New Market area last night.

Police have arrested three people, including a lawyer, on charge of possessing heroin in Kurigram.

An Ansar member was stabbed to death in Hetam Khan Bidyut Bhaban in Rajshahi last night.

Police yesterday arrested three people on charge of sodomising a minor boy in Chatkhil municipality area of Noakhali.

Police detained a local Awami League leader in connection with the recovery of a body of a local businessman at the former's residence in Gaibandha today.

Twenty rounds of bullets, which were snatched from a policeman during clashes between police and Hefajat-e-Islam activists in Brahmanbaria, have been recovered two weeks after the incident.

Two gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed a prominent Greek crime journalist near his home in Athens on Friday, police said.

Brahmanbaria unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) yesterday said they would file sedition cases against Hefajat-e-Islam leaders if the latter did not offer an apology for “spreading lies” about the recent mayhem in the district.

Nine staffers of the bulk carrier, which rammed a launch causing it to sink in the Shitalakkhya in ​​Narayanganj on Sunday, were sent to jail and five others placed on a two-day remand yesterday.

A man was shot dead allegedly by his rivals in front of his house in Chattogram’s Rangunia yesterday afternoon.

Police have arrested four members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) for their alleged involvement in extortion in the capital’s Hatirjheel area.

Two alleged drug peddlers and an alleged mugger were arrested during three separate drives conducted by Rapid Action Battalion in Feni.

Four more cases were filed yesterday over the violence in Faridpur’s Saltha on April 5.

A schoolgirl was raped allegedly by a youth in Taltoli upazila of Barguna district yesterday.

Hefajat-e Islam Amir Junaid Babunagari today demanded immediate withdrawal of “conspiracy cases” filed against 17 Hefajat leaders including its Secretary-General Nurul Islam Jihadi.

Border Guard Bangladesh seized four lakh yaba tablets after a gunfight between them and “yaba smugglers” in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today.

A Gazipur court today sent Rafiqul Islam Madani, popularly known as "Shishu Bokta", to jail after he was sued under Digital Security Act for delivering ‘anti-state and provocative’ speeches.

Bangladesh Coast Guard today seized the bulk carrier that hit a passenger launch in the Shitalakkhya river, killing 34 people.

Police arrested three leaders of Chuadanga Swechchhasebak League in a case filed on behalf of a local lawmaker under the Digital Security Act.

Officer-in-charge of Dharmapasha Police Station Delwar Hossain was withdrawn and attached to Police Lines last night over the incident of harassment of a Dhaka University BCL leader in Sunamganj.