A local Awami League leader was sued today over assaulting a Chuadanga-1 independent candidate and his supporters when they were campaigning for the January 7 national election in Sadar upazila last night

At least 12 people were injured, and an election camp was vandalised in electoral violence in four districts between Friday night and yesterday.

Police recovered the body of a 61-year-old man’s body from underneath a bridge in the Nakaihat area on the Gobindaganj-Gaibandha road yesterday.

Police in separate drives arrested two BNP leaders in Chuadanga in connection with cases filed over carrying out sabotage.

Police recovered the bodies of two youths from the Padma river near the Godagari frontier in Rajshahi yesterday, five days after they went missing.

Sonia Akter along with her family was targeted by a mugger while they were crossing a road in Gulistan yesterday afternoon.

Unidentified arsonists torched three buses in the capital's Dhanmondi, Mirpur and Gulistan tonight, on the eve of BNP's dawn-to-dusk blockade

Police recovered the bodies of two youths from the Padma river near the Godagari frontier in Rajshahi today, five days after they went missing

A 70-year-old man was hacked to death over a land-related dispute in Kalkini upazila of Madaripur today

Sonia Akter along with her family was targeted by a mugger while they were crossing a road in Gulistan this afternoon

Police in separate drives arrested two local BNP leaders from different parts of Chuadanga in connection with cases filed over carrying out acts of sabotage

The United Nations wants to see a full investigation into the arson attack on a moving train in Dhaka that claimed the lives of four people, including a mother and her child, on December 19.

An inmate of Dhaka Central Jail died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday, police said.

The decomposed body of an unidentified woman was recovered from a hill in  Adhunagar union under Lohagara upazila of Chattogram.

Members of Santahar railway police in Bogura have arrested three Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists accused of torching two trains in Panchbibi and Joypurhat earlier this month.

The electoral enquiry committee has issued a show-cause notice to local Awami League leader Abu Bakkar Siddik Shamol for attacking Lalmonrhat-1 independent candidate Ataur Rahman Prodhan and vandalising his car and election office at Hatibandha yesterday.

"I think it is incumbent on the authorities in Bangladesh to fully investigate the source and to bring those responsible to justice."

Members of Santahar railway police in Bogura arrested three Chhatra Dal activists suspected of torching two trains in Panchbibi and Joypurhat earlier this month.

Family blames police for his death

Three Rohingya men, including a community leader, were shot and stabbed to death in three refugee camps in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.