Rangpur police have arrested Nure Alam Rinku, the organising secretary of the Rangpur Metropolitan Jubo League

A woman, identifying herself as a representative of the Students Against Discrimination (SAD), has set up a shelter for mentally challenged individuals by occupying the house of a former Awami League lawmaker in Tangail district town.

The National Independent Investigation Commission on the 2009 BDR carnage has issued a public notice urging 15 individuals, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to testify as part of its inquiry.

Police have launched a nationwide search for members of the banned militant outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), leading to the arrest of 36 individuals since Friday.

The government is failing to ensure women’s safety, said National Citizen Party leaders at a rally marking the International Women’s Day yesterday.

Allegations that five girls were raped in separate incidents emerged on International Women’s Day yesterday amid a cry for justice for a wave of recent sexual assaults.

Police yesterday recovered the severed head of a woman from a tobacco plantation in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat along the Durgapur border.

The eight-year-old girl, who is now battling for her life in the capital’s CMH, was raped by her sister’s father-in-law when she was visiting their home in Magura, police said.

During the operation of navy and police rescued an abducted individual, Ariful Islam Shuvo, a resident of Monohardi upazila in Narsingdi

Of them, two each were killed in Rajshahi and Jamalpur and one in Dhaka

4 injured, 2 arrested

Mozammel Haque Manik, 50, is an assistant teacher at a government primary school

The drive was carried out on a tip-off around 4:30pm at the Murapara area, said Mehedi Islam, senior assistant superintendent of police in Narayanganj

A gang of four youths attempted to rape a schoolgirl in the Guliakhali Sea Beach area of Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram around this noon, police have said

Detectives claimed to have arrested eight members of a teen gang while they were allegedly preparing for a robbery in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area early today.

The accused took the girl to a mahogany orchard around 8:00pm last night and raped her

Three days after an eight-year-old school girl was raped while visiting her sister's in-laws in Magura on Wednesday night, a case was filed against four people today

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) today claimed to have arrested four more active members of the banned militant outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir from various parts of Dhaka.

The incident occurred around 3:00pm on March 2

Locals have claimed that on Thursday (March 6), an 'Open House Day' event was organised by the Durgapur Police Station at the Kalikapur Government Primary School grounds