Police rescue suspect after mob beats him up

ACC Public Prosecutor Rezaul Karim Reza moved the application on behalf of the anti-graft body.

A Dhaka court has acquitted former army major Rezaul Karim in a 2012 extortion case.

The information was revealed in a recent report by the ACC’s Asset Management Division.

Rakhal Raha, a writer and researcher involved in the textbook revision process, was sued today for "hurting religious sentiments".

HC issued rule questioning legality of the president’s power to grant clemency to convicted persons without any guidelines.

No case has been filed in this regard

A Panchagarh court today placed Abu Hasan Md Noman, 32, president of the Panchagarh unit of the now-banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), on a five-day remand in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Al Amin, a local easy-bike driver, on August 5

The body was recovered from the Jheori area of ​​Barkhain Union around 10:00am today

A senior official of the home ministry says the chief adviser had raised objections to the name

Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday urged the public to refrain from smoking in open spaces as people are criticising a recent attack on two women by a group of men in the capital’s Lalmatia.

Another man, Nayan Hawlader, was critically injured in the attack

Passengers on a bus were robbed of their mobile phones and cash at knifepoint in Dhaka’s Savar yesterday afternoon.

Nahid Hasan Khondokar, a leader of Students Against Discrimination (SAD) in Rangpur, has been accused of demanding extortion money from a person in the district.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 44 bank accounts of former industries minister and Awami League advisory council member Amir Hossain Amu, his wife Syeda Haque and their daughter Sumaiya Hossain in connection with corruption allegations against them.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to produce four persons, including two policemen, before it on April 9 in connection with a case over the killing of Abu Sayed, a Begum Rokeya University student, during the July mass uprising.

The Supreme Court yesterday deferred until today the date for hearing the leave to appeal petitions filed by the state and the Anti-Corruption Commission challenging the High Court verdict that acquitted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

The law enforcers arrested a death row fugitive who had been evading arrest for the past 18 years in Gazipur district on Saturday night.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has recently raided the cantonment residence of Lieutenant General Saiful Alam, former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police and other law enforcement agencies arrested 167 suspected criminals, including robbers and muggers, during a crackdown in the capital on Saturday, according to a DMP press release.