A local Jubo Dal leader vandalised a bank and assaulted its manager in Pabna's Chatmohar upazila this afternoon after the bank filed a loan default case against him, locals and bank officials have said

The convict, Mohammad Eskandar, is on the run

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Law enforcement agencies have so far arrested 336 individuals

The accused may appeal the penalty within 30 working days of the issuance of the notice, by depositing 25 percent of the fine in the government treasury

Earlier, on June 2, the Appellate Division granted the state permission to file two separate appeals challenging the High Court's judgement in the cases

A case has been filed against a youth over the rape of a four-year-old girl in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to Shafiur Rahman Farabi, who was sentenced to life in prison by the trial court in a case over the killing of writer-blogger Avijit Roy.

The Supreme Court has acquitted a condemned convict in a case filed over crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

The group led by former Students Against Discrimination leader Abdur  Razzak Riyad, arrested for allegedly extorting a former Awami League  lawmaker’s family in Gulshan, had targeted another ex-AL MP, Abdul Kalam  Azad, a month earlier, said police.

A Rangpur court yesterday sent five people to jail in a case filed over the attacks on Hindu houses, vandalism, and looting of valuables in Rangpur’s Gangachara upazila.

The judge also handed down two-year jail terms to 17 other accused in the same case

At least 70 extortion cases were filed on average every month in the capital in the first six months this year, according to crime statistics shared by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has said that most of the decisions made to suppress the July uprising came from political high-ups, including the prime minister herself.

At the height of the July uprising, many hospitals turned their backs -- some out of fear, others silenced or forced into complicity. State forces roamed halls of healing, seizing CCTV footage, erasing patient records, and threatening doctors not to treat the wounded.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque on a seven-day remand in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system.

A landlord was beaten to death allegedly by local BNP activists in Narayanganj’s Araihazar yesterday, following a dispute over unpaid rent for a local party office set up on his property.

Munshiganj SP Muhammad Shamsul Alam Sarkar also confirmed the matter

Miscreants target deities at 50-year-old temple left unguarded overnight

Process to file a case with Kalabagan Police Station is underway