Hijacked ship’s crew member tells his mother over phone

A Dhaka court today sent pro-BNP lawyer and secretary candidate Ruhul Quddus Kazal to jail in connection with a case filed over March 8 violence centring the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election

The High Court will deliver its verdict on March 18 on a rule that questioned legality of 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

Rapid Action Battalion members today arrested four members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) including its top commander in Ukhiya of Cox's Bazar

Six members of Detective Branch (DB) (North-South) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) were temporarily suspended last night in connection with looting cryptocurrency worth Tk 3.1 crore from a freelancer in DB custody on February 26

The driver of Chattogram-bound Bijoy Express was injured after being hit by a stone thrown by unidentified miscreants at the moving train near Ishwarganj Railway Station in Mymensingh last night

The pirates who hijacked a Bangladeshi-flagged cargo ship in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday are yet to make any contact with the government, Rear Admiral (Retd) Khurshed Alam, secretary of Maritime Affairs Unit, said today

The hijacked Bangladeshi-flagged cargo ship has anchored 20 miles off the Somalian port of Garacad, Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers' Association (BMMOA) said this afternoon

The hijacked Bangladeshi-flagged cargo ship was around 72 nautical miles off the Somalian port of Garacad at 6:00am today, and it is moving towards the coast

Neither the government nor the firm that owns the Bangladesh-flagged ship hijacked with 23 crew members has been able to contact the hostages or pirates as of last night.

Border Guard Bangladesh members recovered the body of an alleged smuggler from the Ichamati river along the Agrabhulot border in Jashore’s Sharsha upazila yesterday.

Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers' Association received an image of the ship's latest position

Bangladesh is trying to communicate with the pirates, believed to be Somalians, of the hijacked Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah, said Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud today

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury said today that they were taking appropriate steps to safely bring back the crew members of the hijacked Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah, but it was not possible to say when that could be done

The High Court today wanted to know the details, including names and addresses, of the labourers detained in connection with the fire incident in Dhaka's Bailey Road area that killed 46 people and injured many others

The High Court today deferred till March 18 the date for delivering a verdict on a writ petition seeking its directives to recover the Gulshan house allegedly occupied by Awami League lawmaker Abdus Salam Murshedy illegally

Say officials of company that owns vessel

Mother of the hijacked Bangladeshi ship’s chief officer urges vessel's owning firm, govt to rescue all crew members

A Dhaka court today sentenced two people to life imprisonment in the case filed over the murder of Sagira Morshed 34 years ago

A man was arrested from Sylhet for raping two girls aged 8 and 10 in Narayanganj Sadar upazila, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) said yesterday.