A journalist of Rangpur city was rescued on Thursday afternoon, two hours after he was abducted from his office allegedly by the owner

A girl, who was kidnapped six days ago, was found murdered in a jute sack near her Dinajpur town home yesterday.

Detectives arrest two people along with 70,000 contraband yaba tablets from Khilgaon area in the capital Dhaka.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes convictions in the case of Bangladeshi blogger Rajib Haider, who was hacked to death in February 2013.

A trader and his driver, allegedly abducted in Chandgaon area of Chittagong city three days ago, are yet to be rescued.

Rape incidents in 2015 outnumbered all other heinous crimes, according to reports of two human and women rights organisations.

The majority of the five Supreme Court judges, who reviewed the death sentence on war crimes convict Delwar Hossain Sayedee, had commuted his sentence to life imprisonment in September last year because a life sentence appeared to them to be "proportionate to the gravity of the crime" he committed, according to the full verdict released yesterday.

A number of 752 women were raped and 94 others became victims of rape attempts in 2015, according to a report of Ain o Salish Kendra.

Slain blogger Rajib's father rejects the verdict of his son’s murder alleging that it was "dictated".

In the first verdict of blogger killings, a Dhaka court has handed death to two, life term jail to another, five-year jail term for Ansarullah Bangla Team chief Mufti Jashim and various jail terms to five others for killing blogger Rajib Haider in February 2013.

A cop was injured as criminals hurled two crude bombs at a police van in RN road in Jessore town yesterday.

Two people, including a madrasa student, were stabbed to death in Sylhet and Dinajpur districts yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail and sent four accomplices of Sohel Rana to jail after their surrender before it in connection with a murder case filed over the Rana Plaza collapse in Savar in April 2013.

The country's first ever partisan municipality polls ended amid reports of violence, irregularities, suspension of voting at 38 centres of 18 municipalities and boycott of at least 19 candidates.

The High Court directed the government to immediately stop demolition of four ancient buildings dating back to the Mughal era in Old Dhaka today.

Elections to 234 municipalities have begun, marking the start of the country's maiden local government polls on partisan lines.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for six weeks a High Court order that granted bail to two accused of a case filed

The Supreme Court is likely to release its full verdict within few days on the appeal of war criminal Delawar Hossain

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday asked the prosecution to submit formal charges, if any, against six

Rapid Action Battalion members arrest 11 alleged human traffickers in Paltan area of Dhaka and rescue two female trafficking victims.