The arrestee is MA Khalek, general secretary of Meherpur district AL and former chairman of Gangni upazila parishad

Injured Rahena Begum is undergoing treatment at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital

Encroachment of railway land continues unabated in Saidpur upazila town of Nilphamari as authorities have yet to act on 24 recommendations made by a ministerial probe body in mid-2021.

Police have arrested two men in Bagerhat Sadar upazila on charges of raping a woman and recording the incident.

A 14-year-old student in Brahmanbaria was saved from being forced into child marriage, thanks to the intervention of Sadar upazila administration yesterday.

A man was stabbed to death inside a tea stall at Ronshibari Bazar in Jhikra union in Rajshahi’s Bagmara upazila yesterday.

What began as a makeshift market on the sands of Kuakata Sea Beach in Patuakhali, is now creeping illegally toward the shoreline to make way for a two-storey residential hotel and restaurant, allege locals.

A mobile court yesterday disconnected the electricity supply to four pump machines used for illegal water extraction from the Baromasia canal in Fatikchhari upazila of Chattogram.

A group of alleged Jamaat-Shibir members attacked and vandalised the house of freedom fighter Abdul Hai Kanu in Cumilla’s Chauddagram upazila early yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested a man accused of stabbing another for protesting the harassment of a schoolgirl in Netrakona’s Atpara upazila.

CA mentions ex premier’s 'incendiary comments'

The Anti-Corruption Commission has launched an investigation into financial transactions that allegedly enabled 55,310 displaced Rohingyas to obtain Bangladesh’s national identity cards and irregularities in the 2018 parliamentary elections.

Police yesterday arrested two individuals, including the shooter seen firing a gun in CCTV footage, in connection with Sunday night’s double murder in Bakalia, Chattogram.

Ignoring a government ban, organised groups are allegedly extracting stones from the Dharla, Saniajan, and Singimari rivers, causing severe environmental damage in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-3 yesterday arrested three individuals, including the prime accused, in a case filed over the harassment of a female journalist in Rampura.

A teenage boy was stabbed to death allegedly over prior feud in Dakshin Raghavpur Colony area of Pabna Sadar upazila early yesterday.

Police have arrested a 55-year-old man in a case filed over the rape of an eight-year-old girl in Kushtia’s Khoksa upazila.

A man died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Chattogram yesterday. He had been shot during a clash between Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal members over hanging an Eid banner in Chattogram city’s GEC area on March 21.

A man was arrested in connection with a case filed over raping an eight-year-old child in Khoksa upazila of Kushtia.

One arrested