Police arrested former Thakurgaon-2 lawmaker Md Dabirul Islam in an extortion case early yesterday.

A High Court bench has withdrawn its verdict rejecting two petitions that challenged the National Board of Revenue’s order reassessing the income tax owed by Grameen Kalyan for different tax years to be Tk 600 crore.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued a travel ban on former captain of Bangladesh cricket team and ex-Awami League lawmaker from Manikganj-1, AM Naimur Rahman Durjoy, and his wife, Farhana Rahman, amid corruption allegations.

At least 28 people have died in mob beatings in September, said a report by the Human Rights Support Society (HRSS). At least 14 people were injured in these incidents.

Doctors have found evidence of sexual assault on the schoolgirl from the Tripura community who was raped allegedly by her teacher in Khagrachhari on Tuesday, said police

The Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances received 400 complaints in the first 13 days since it began working on September 15.

Former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder has been arrested from Dhaka's Bashundhara Residential area this evening

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 25 others have been sued over the death of a rickshaw puller in Dhaka during the mass protest on August 5

A Dhaka court today placed Engineer Masuda Siddique Rozy, former lawmaker from reserved seat for Narsingdi, on a two-day remand in a case filed over the death of Sirajul Bepary during the Anti-Discrimination Students Movement in Dhaka's Badda on August 5

Members of Rapid Action Battalion have arrested Abdul Gaffar, former chairman of Naogaon's Patnitala upazila, from Dhaka's Dhanmondi area early today

Two people were killed last night in separate incidents in Gazipur's Kaliganj and Sreepur upazilas

A complaint was filed yesterday with the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 24 others over the killing of a schoolboy in the capital’s Chankharpul area on August 5 during protests that toppled her government.

The government has suspended the jail term of Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, for one year, on the condition that she will file an appeal in the case upon surrender.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued travel bans on five individuals, including former Awami League lawmaker Abdus Sobhan Golap and current Rajuk Chief Engineer Ujjwal Mallick, in connection with corruption allegations.

The Supreme Court chamber judge yesterday stayed a High Court order that granted ad-interim bail to Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana in a case filed over deaths during the collapse of the plaza in April 2013.

A Rohingya youth was killed and five others injured in a gunfight between two Myanmar-based armed groups at a Ukhiya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar yesterday evening

The Khagrachhari administration yesterday formed a four-member committee to investigate Tuesday’s racial violence that ensued after a schoolteacher was beaten to death for allegedly raping an eighth grader.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has launched an investigation into Nazrul Islam Majumdar, the chairman of NASA Group, over allegations of laundering approximately $3 million to the United States

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to launch investigations into allegations of abuse of power and amassing illegal wealth against ten former lawmakers, including ex-whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury

Former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, who was reportedly seen in a park in Kolkata, might have crossed the border into India illegally, a top police official announced today