The Myanmar-based armed rebel group Arakan Army yesterday abducted 19 Bangladeshi fishermen along with their four fishing boats from Naf river estuary when they were returning to Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar.

Expelled female students of Chittagong University yesterday placed a seven-point demand, including withdrawal of their two-year expulsion order and resignation of the proctor.

The government yesterday forced 22 more officials into retirement, raising the number of disciplined bureaucrats to 67 for their questionable role as deputy commissioners in the 2014 and 2018 sham elections under the Awami League regime.

Two persons were killed allegedly in a gunfight between crime suspects and the joint forces in the capital’s Mohammadpur area early yesterday, marking the first such incident since the fall of the Hasina regime.

A student of Sylhet MC College was attacked allegedly by Chhatra Shibir activists at a dormitory in Sylhet early yesterday over a Facebook comment about the recent clash between activists of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Chhatra Dal at Kuet.

A Jubo League activist was beaten to death by unidentified men in the Noapara area of Raozan, Chattogram, on Wednesday night.

The ICT prosecution yesterday said former Rab officer Alep Uddin raped a university student by threatening to kill her detained husband.

A 22-year-old woman has been raped by her husband’s friend and associates on Domrakhali Char in the Padma River, Munshiganj, said police.

Three days have passed since the robbery on board a moving bus on Dhaka-Tangail highway on February 17 night, but no case has yet been filed in this connection.

Police arrested a man in possession of two homemade Light Guns (LGs) in Chattogram city's Pahartali area today.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed and his wife, Jissan Mirza, for allegedly amassing a large amount of illegal wealth and laundering money.

They were receiving training at the Bangladesh Police Academy in Rajshahi's Sardah.

For building toilet at the site

The ICT prosecution is expected to submit its investigation report on the case before the tribunal today

The VC assured the students that their demands would be met promptly

Adviser to the interim government Mahfuj Alam has said the July-August mass uprising belongs to everyone, stressing that progress has to be achieved with everyone’s participation.

The joint forces arrested 532 more people across the country in the last 24 hours till yesterday afternoon as part of the “Operation Devil Hunt”, according to the Police Headquarters.

Both men were employed as workers at the dockyard

The Khulna University of Engineering and Technology yesterday suspended classes and exams until February 28 and retained the ban on student politics amid protests after clashes between a group of students, including former members of Students Against Discrimination, and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists on Tuesday. 

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is now cleared of all the 37 cases filed during the 2007 caretaker government and the Awami League regime as the court acquitted her in the Niko graft case yesterday.