A marine engineer and his wife were sent to jail by a Mymensingh court over the murder of their house help.

A man has been arrested in Rajbari’s Goalanda for allegedly trying to rape his step-daughter, an eighth grader.

The boy started working as a salesman at a clothes shop after he failed SSC exams. With a larger than life dream to be rich overnight, he fled from home and started treading the path of crime to realise his audacious aspiration, detectives said today.

A youth was shot to death in a clash yesterday between two groups of people of Jajira's Naodoba union in Shariatpur over a land dispute.

The High Court today refused to grant bail to former Faridpur town unit Awami League general secretary Sazzad Hossain Barkat and his brother Imtiaz Hasan alias Rubel in an extortion case involving Tk 50 lakh.

The probe committee has found negligence of two hostel-superintendents and five guards at Sylhet's MC College in ensuring security resulting in the gang-rape of a woman in the hostel in September last year, Supreme Court lawyer Md Mesbah Uddin told The Daily Star while disclosing details of the report today.

A Dhaka court today sent Abantika Boral, an aide to PK Halder, to jail on expiry of her three-day remand in connection with a graft case.

Police yesterday detained 16 boys from Dhaka's Hatirjheel area for allegedly harassing visitors there. They were later handed over to their parents upon receiving undertaking as they were not accused in any cases.

A man was stabbed to death, allegedly by his brother, at Pahartoli area this morning while voting was going in Chattogram City Corporation election with stray incidents of clashes.

A woman has been driven out of her house along with her mentally ill child for failing to pay dowry in the capital’s Darus Salam area.

An assistant commissioner of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been terminated for embezzling Tk 3.50 crore of tax money without depositing it to the government treasury.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have detained four members of a terrorist group from Jhenidah early today for kidnapping two college students from Khulna.

A Rohingya man was killed in an alleged gunfight between two groups of Rohingya at a refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today.

Detectives claimed to have arrested five alleged muggers in connection with killing cable operator businessman Hamidul Islam near High Court in Dhaka on Saturday night.

Around four dozen people were sued over attacking a police team in Pirojpur Sadar upazila early yesterday.

A man has been arrested in Rajshahi for sexually harassing women while being in guise of a beggar.

Police arrested a private university student from Dhaka on charge of raping a student of another university in October last year and blackmailing her for months afterwards.

Police have arrested a madrasa teacher for allegedly raping a seven-year-old in Benopole, Jashore today.

An Indian national was arrested at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport last evening while he was trying to board a UK-bound flight with a fake visa.

Five police personnel were injured in an attack by locals when they were returning to the police station after arresting an accused of a theft case in Pirojpur Sadar upazila last night.