A Dhaka court today deferred to August 5 the hearing on charge framing in Barapukuria coalmine corruption case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and six others

Police arrested two people in Savar early today over the assault of The Daily Star’s local correspondent

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced three people, including two former policemen, to four years and six months of imprisonment for snatching mobile phone and cash from a driver of ride-hailing company Uber and for threatening to implicate him in a drug case

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday pressed charges against former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu, his wife Shirin Aktar and six others over money laundering.

Compares info from arrestees here with suspect held there

Enamul Haque, Islampur correspondent of Dainik Kalbela, is undergoing treatment at Jamalpur General Hospital

Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a British citizen of Bangladesh origin from an abandoned house at a tea garden in Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar

The Supreme Court chamber judge today cleared the way for film actor Monwar Hossain Dipjol to perform as general secretary of Bangladesh Film Artistes Association (BFAA)

The Supreme Court today refused to grant bail to Destiny Group Managing Director Md Rafiqul Amin in a case filed on charge of laundering around Tk 2,200 crore

A drug-addict son allegedly stabbed his father to death at their home in Demra Staff Quarters area of the capital today

The High Court yesterday directed the government to immediately stop all activities of housing project “Silicon City” at Savar including its earth-filling, plot selling and registration.

Grameen Bank has filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Commission against its former managing director Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, accusing him of illegally granting a loan to a company his family owns.

A total of 6,727 acres of railway land are under illegal occupation by different organisations and individuals, as per a report by Bangladesh Railway.

It has been six years since the death of Teknaf municipality councillor Akramul Haque in a “gunfight” with the Rapid Action Battalion, but his family’s quest for justice remains agonisingly unfulfilled.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to confiscate assets under 119 more deeds of former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed and his family members in connection with alleged corruption.

While killing Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar at a Kolkata flat, the assailants were on the phone with mastermind Aktaruzzaman, known in his hometown Jhenaidah as Shaheen Mia, several investigators suspect.

A Chattogram loan recovery court yesterday ordered the immediate arrest of an upazila parishad election candidate accused of defaulting on a Tk 118 crore loan.

The Savar correspondent of The Daily Star, Aklakur Rahman Akash, was mercilessly beaten up yesterday morning while he was covering an ownership dispute at a ceramic factory there.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday convicted two journalists of the weekly Aparadh Bichitra in a DSA case filed over publishing false and defamatory news reports.

The government sees river grabbers as criminals, said State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday.