A businessman in Jashore filed a case against Jashore district Awami League President Shahidul Islam Milan and his son last night, accusing them of leading a violent attack on his home on June 27.

Number of arrestees likely to increase

Twelve firefighting units were working to extinguish the fire since last night but it could not be doused completely even after 15 hours, officials of Fire Service and Civil defence said around noon

Judge Mohammad Iqbal Hossain of the Special Judge's Court-5 of Dhaka also fined them a total of Tk 4.05 crore, which they will have to pay proportionately

The government last night transferred nine senior officials of Ansar and VDP, including a deputy commandant, following a clash with students at the Secretariat.

Bangladesh Football Federation President Kazi Salahuddin, actors Zayed Khan, Shahriar Nazim Joy and Shazu Khadem and 47 others were sued yesterday on charge of attacking the motorcade of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at Fakirapool intersection in April of 2015

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) yesterday asked banks to freeze the accounts of Nazrul Islam Mazumder, the chairman of Exim Bank and Nassa Group, and Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat, former chairman of Padma Bank, and their family members.

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was accused in 12 more cases filed in Dhaka and elsewhere yesterday.

Former Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi and Awami League Central Publicity and Publications Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap were arrested in Dhaka yesterday.

A Dhaka court today placed six people, including former deputy speaker Shamsul Haque Tuku and ex-state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, on a seven-day remand each in a case filed over the death of an 11-grader in the capital's Lalbagh area during the quota reform protests on July 18

A case was filed against 77 named Awami League men including some of the party's local leaders and 100-150 unidentified persons on charge of vandalising Pirojpur district BNP office on August 4

A total of 350 Awami League men including 93 named were made accused in two separate cases on charge of vandalising the BNP office of Barguna’s Amtali upazila on August 5

A Dhaka court today placed former Dhaka-13 Awami League lawmaker Sadek Khan on a four-day remand in a case filed for the killing of truck driver Md Sujan, 24, during the student movement on July 20

Repeated instances of mob beatings of political detainees expose govt's failure to provide their safety

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 48 others were sued today in a case filed over the death of university student Sheikh Ashabul Yamin at Savar Bazar bus stand during the quota reform movement on July 18

A Supreme Court lawyer today served a legal notice seeking a list of convicted persons whose sentences have been waived, commuted and suspended by presidents between January 1991 and July 2024 under Article 49 of the constitution.

Abdur Rahim, the former deputy director of BDR who was an accused in the BDR carnage case, died in jail custody on July 29, 2010

Former Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi was arrested in Dhaka's Shantinagar area early today

An 18-year-old HSC examinee, Hafizur Rahman, was hacked to death in Rampura yesterday

Another case accuses 1,500, mostly unnamed