An eight-year-old madrasa student was seen being mercilessly beaten up by his teacher yesterday in a video that went viral on social media last night and drew flak from netizens.

Two men suspected to be yaba smugglers were killed in a reported gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested a Jubo League activist in a case filed over raping a woman in Faridganj upazila of Chandpur.

Police Bureau of Investigation has charged five, including a police official, in a case filed over gang-rape of a school student in Rangpur.

The murder accused, who fled from Chattogram Central Jail on Saturday morning, was arrested from Narsingdi district today.

An official of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) was expelled for his alleged involvement in corruption in a special project.

Rab arrested a bus driver and his assistant on charge of pushing a woman with speech impairment off a running bus in Rohitpur Bazar of Keraniganj yesterday.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a lower court to resume trial proceedings of a 27-year old corruption case filed against Jatiya Party leader and former state minister ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader.

Bangladesh Coast Guard today seized 30,000 yaba pills and arrested five alleged drug traffickers during a raid on the Naf River in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf.

A man was arrested in a case filed for raping a ninth-grade student in Paikgachha upazila of Khulna.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has pressed charges against Regent Group Chairman Muhammad Shahed and two others in a case filed over misappropriation of Tk 42.57 lakh from a businessman.

A team of police busted an illegal firearms factory and arrested two people suspected to be arms manufacturers from Notabaria area of Pabna’s Bera upazila yesterday afternoon.

Police are yet to arrest a man accused of raping a schoolgirl after which she died by suicide in Noakhali’s Subarnachar on March 1.

A Jashore court today sentenced a man to death in a case filed over killing his elder sister in 2019.

A lower court can now continue the trial proceedings of a case that accused former Kurigram deputy commissioner Sultana Parvin, three executive magistrates, and several ansar members of attempting to murder a journalist in March, 2020.

Police have recovered the body of a RMG worker which was cut up into five pieces from three different places in Monipur area of Gazipur Sadar upazila. Her husband was detained in connection with the death.

Customs Intelligence has pressed charges against owners of Apan Jewellers Gulzar Ahmed and Azad Ahmed in connection with two money laundering cases.

Police have arrested a local Jubo League leader in connection with a case filed over the murder of a local journalist during a firefight between two factions of Awami League at Companiganj in Noakhali on February 19.

Prison authorities today suspended two prison guards in Chattogram Central Jail, and withdrew its jailer and deputy jailer, for their negligence in discharging duty after a murder accused inmate went missing from prison.

Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, now on bail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act, yesterday said he did not do anything wrong or commit any offense by drawing cartoons but he still became a “victim of the situation”.