The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT) yesterday appointed Senior Advocate Md Aminul Gani (Titto) as defence counsel for ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in a contempt of court case filed against her.

Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, along with Uttara Division officials, in separate drives on Wednesday, arrested five members of a robbery gang, led by a dismissed policeman and a retired army sergeant, who posed as Rab personnel to rob four people in Uttara.

Police recovered the body of a young man wrapped in a sack from a drain near a house two days ago in Narayanganj

The accused, Shariful Islam, fled the court's premises while being escorted to the lockup of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka around 11:40am

They were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for treatment

The victim's brother, Nur Islam, filed a case with Aminpur Police Station this afternoon

The market value of the shares stands at Tk 62,46,61,918

A Dhaka tribunal today sentenced a man to death for raping his stepdaughter in 2021

The seized items are 160 cartons of foreign cigarettes, 8 Google Pixel-7 and 2 Google Pixel-6 smartphones and 140 banned skin-whitening creams

Tk 32 lakh recovered

The arrests were made yesterday in separate drives across Dhaka and other districts

A nine-year-old girl was raped at knifepoint in Meherpur on Monday, while three men were sent to jail yesterday in connection with the gangrape of a woman in Cumilla.

Four armed men yesterday snatched Tk 55 lakh from two officials of Nagad in Monirampur upazila of Jashore, in the second such incident in three days.

The High Court, in the full text of its verdict on the Holey Artisan Bakery attack case, said it sentenced seven convicts to imprisonment until death considering the brutality of the 2016 terrorist act and the damage it caused to the country’s global image.

A Dhaka court today ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 94 bank accounts of AKM Aftab Ul Islam, chairman of International Office Equipment (IOE) Bangladesh Ltd, in connection with corruption allegations brought against him

The market value of the properties stands at Tk 180.61 crore

He was produced before the court earlier today

Justice Nozrul Islam Chowdhury, the newly appointed chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal-2, said the tribunal would continue its proceedings without fear or bias, maintaining international standards of justice.

Trial to proceed in absentia if they fail to appear on June 24

AKM Sorwar Jahan Badsha, former Awami League lawmaker from Kushtia-1 constituency, was arrested from Mohammadpur area