Airport security and Customs officials recovered 800 cartons of foreign cigarettes, found abandoned, at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport yesterday morning.

Bangladesh Coast Guard detained eight people attempting to smuggle a large consignment of cement to Myanmar early yesterday.

A listed criminal from Brahmanbaria and his accomplice, both of whom fled to India after shooting three people in broad daylight, were held by India's Border Security Force and returned to Bangladesh on Friday.

Victim attacked on Tongi flyover stairway while heading to work

A fish trader was robbed and hacked to death by unidentified miscreants in Faridpur’s Saltha upazila early yesterday.

A man with physical disability was hanged from a tree with his hands tied and beaten on suspicion of theft in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila on Thursday.

A man arrested over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar on December 2 has confessed to the crimes before a magistrate yesterday, police said.

SCBA president voices concern while welcoming SC Secretariat Ordinance

Court sends him to jail

Efforts on to arrest those involved, police say

Complaint lodged; one held

No complaint filed yet, police say

A government vehicle carrying two assistant revenue officers of Chittagong Custom House was vandalised by unidentified miscreants in the port city’s Agrabad area yesterday morning.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday took cognisance of formal charges in two cases against Sajeeb Wazed Joy, former ICT adviser to deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and three others.

Police launch investigation to identify attackers

A Pabna court yesterday sent a woman to jail over the killing of eight puppies in Ishwardi upazila on Monday.

Border Guard Bangladesh detained 30 Bangladeshis early yesterday after they were pushed into the country by the Indian Border Security Force through the Gangni border in Meherpur.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday sent two deputy registrars to the chamber of Senior Supreme Court lawyer ZI Khan Panna, appointed earlier as defence counsel for deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina in an enforced disappearance case, after he failed to appear during the charge-framing hearing.

Accused allegedly blackmailed victim with photos and videos

Court says Panna, appointed as Hasina’s defence counsel, can't withdraw without permission