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.

A 60-year-old woman was beaten to death, and two others, including a child, were injured in an attack allegedly over a land dispute in the capital’s Hazaribagh early yesterday.

The bullet entered through his eye and lodged in his head

Jahangir was arrested in the capital's Gulshan area on October 1, 2024

Police arrested the alleged rapist after the victim's father filed a case

The couple had been living with their only son in a rented house

BSF hands over woman along Banglabandha border

The victim is Asma Begum, wife of Malaysian expatriate Saju Mia of Bhabanipur village. She had been living on her own

The arrestee is president of Netrokona's Khaliajuri upazila unit AL

The identity of the deceased is yet to be confirmed

Police arrested 22 people, including several leaders and activists of the Awami League and banned Chhatra League, following a “secret meeting” at the KB Convention Centre near the capital’s Bashundhara Residential area on July 8.