At least 17 people were injured in clashes between supporters of the ruling Awami League-nominated candidates and independent aspirants in Faridpur, Jamalpur, and Jashore yesterday.

A hired worker of Palli Bidyut Samity was killed and two others were injured as one of their fellows allegedly attacked them over a trivial matter in Patuakhali yesterday.

A man died and his wife was injured in a collision between two motorcycles in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that on December 13 granted bail to expelled Jubo League leader SM Golam Kibria Shamim, known as GK Shamim, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in an arms case.

Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal yesterday sentenced 13 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami to life term imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of Natore’s Jubo League leader Khairul Islam in 2013.

Four people -- including son of a local union parishad member -- were sued today for raping a woman in Natore’s Naldanga upazila.

A five-day-old girl was stolen from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Chattogram Medical College Hospital this evening

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday denounced arson attacks by any political parties as a means of advancing political agenda or protests

Meanwhile, police arrested the accused named Kawsar in connection with the killing

Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal today sentenced 13 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami to life term imprisonment in a case filed over murder of Natore’s Jubo League leader Khairul Islam in 2013

As soon as other passengers on Mohanganj Express screamed “fire”, Nadira Akhter Popy grabbed her three-year-old son, held him to her chest and ran in an attempt to get out of the train carriage and escape the fire

A Dhaka court today extended till January 23 the deadline for submitting the probe report of a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012

The Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that on December 13 granted bail to expelled Jubo League leader SM Golam Kibria Shamim, known as GK Shamim, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in an arms case

Arsonists set fire to a bus in Dhaka’s Gulistan area this afternoon.

Fire could not have spread so quickly without petrol, says bomb disposal unit

Police said they suspect that the arsonists, who set three bogies of Mohanganj Express on fire in Tejgaon today, boarded the train from the Airport Railway Station

At least four passengers, including a woman and her three-year-old son, were killed as arsonists set three coaches of Mohanganj Express on fire near Tejgaon Railway Station

A woman who was critically injured due to a gas cylinder blast at her Keraniganj residence died last night at the national burn institute in Dhaka.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petitions of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Alamgir and the party’s Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over assaulting policemen in the capital on October 28.

Nuru Islam Nuru is a truck driver by profession, travelling across the country to deliver products. But Nuru, a seemingly unsuspecting individual, has been utilising his delivery ventures as a front for conducting robberies with his six-to-eight-member gang.