The trial of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her two top aides began yesterday at the International Crimes Tribunal-1, with a testimony from the first prosecution witness, a survivor of police atrocities during the 2024 July uprising.

Case filed, no arrests yet

The victim's husband is still absconding

On the evening of July 17, his body was found floating in a pond next to Shah Azizur Rahman Hall on the university campus

A local court sent him to jail this morning

He was later handed over to Chatmohar Police Station for legal proceedings.

Police have submitted the first charge sheet in a murder case linked to last year’s July uprising in Chattogram.

A man was beaten to death by some members of security forces in the capital’s Khilgaon Sipahibagh area yesterday, family members alleged.

A 14-year-old girl and her family fled their home on Cox’s Bazar’s Saint Martin’s Island on Friday, after local political figures, allegedly of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, offered Tk 1 lakh to silence them over the rape of the teenager.

The victim was identified as Johura Khatun, 60, of Makorjhap village in Ishwarganj

Police have arrested five people, including three local BNP leaders, in Tangail in an extortion case.

A businessman in Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore was allegedly held at gunpoint, partially buried in sand and extorted of Tk 4 crore in multiple phases by a suspended BNP leader and a local journalist.

No arrests were made till the filing of this report at 4:00pm today.

Social media flooded with outrage and concern

Signatories also demand release of innocent detainees

He claims innocence, breaks down in court as police seek to recover extorted money

Efforts are currently underway to recover the rest of the extorted money, say police

A human hauler driver was hacked to death in Khulna's Digholia upazila early today

Judicial inquiry has to be conducted into the deaths of three Bawm men in jail custody, demanded 155 eminent citizens yesterday.

The Detective Branch of police has arrested an expelled leader of Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad in an extortion case involving the family of former Awami League MP Shammi Ahmed in Dhaka’s Gulshan.