A prisoner of Naogaon jail died at Naogaon General Hospital yesterday.

Three police officials were injured after the family members of an accused launched an attack on them in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila on Sunday night.

A Chhatra League leader was stabbed to death by unidentified assailants in Tangail’s Nagarpur upazila last night.

Somali police and international navies were preparing to raid Bangladesh-flagged commercial ship MV Abdullah that was hijacked by pirates last week, Reuters reported yesterday citing comments made by Somali police.

Villagers beat four people to death and severely injured another one in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila on Sunday night on suspicion that they were robbers.

A 65-year-old man was suffocated to death allegedly by his son over a family feud in Sylhet's Dakshin Surma upazila this afternoon

A female student of Jagannath University has alleged that she has been threatened with death and expulsion from the university after accusing a teacher of sexual harassment

Detective Branch of Police arrested two alleged gold smugglers and recovered 32 pieces of gold bars weighing 3.3 kilogrammes from them in Jashore this afternoon

A High Court bench today refused to hold hearings on two separate bail petitions of four Supreme Court lawyers including Nahid Sultana Juthi, wife of Juba League Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash, in a case filed over the violence centring the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election

The law ministry is likely to decide tomorrow whether BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be allowed to go abroad for treatment

Jahangirnagar University (JU) Proctor ASM Firoz Ul Hasan, also associate professor of government and politics department, today resigned from his post amid widespread protests

A Dhaka court today denied bail to pro-BNP lawyer Ruhul Quddus Kazal in connection with a case filed over the violence during Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election on March 8

The High Court today scrapped the Labour Appellate Tribunal’s order which stayed conviction and sentences of Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and three other top officials of Grameen Telecom in a labour law violation case

A Cumilla court today placed Jagannath University student Raihan Siddique Amman and Assistant Proctor Din Islam on two-day and one-day remand respectively in the case filed over instigating the death by suicide of law student Fairuz Abantika

Four suspected robbers were killed and another was injured in a mob beating in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj early today, police said

Six days have passed since the hijacking of the Bangladesh-flagged cargo ship MV Abdullah, yet no contact has been made by the suspected Somali pirates till yesterday.

The authority or owning firm of the ship, which has been hijacked by Somali pirates, needs to exercise caution while making comments to the media, said a former captain of a vessel who went through the same ordeal.

Police yesterday arrested two men on charges of stabbing a 25-year-old man to death and assaulting another in the capital’s Pallabi on Saturday night.

A teacher at Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) has remained suspended for around 10 months for the “crime” of speaking out against the university authorities regarding irregularities in teachers’ appointments.

Police have found evidence of partial involvement of Jagannath University student Raihan Siddique Amman and Assistant Proctor Din Islam in instigating the suicide of law student Fairuz Sadaf Abontika.