The US encouraged Bangladeshi authorities to thoroughly investigate the incidents surrounding the October 28 BNP rally and hold to account those responsible for the violence.

Miscreants yesterday poured petrol and set a bus on fire on the Gazipur-Tangail highway in Gazipur

Police suspect foul play

A garment worker was killed after Gazipur Industrial Police personnel allegedly shot him from close range as RMG workers and law enforcers clashed in Gazipur and Ashulia yesterday.

The High Court yesterday commuted the death sentence of seven jailed militants to imprisonment until death in the Holey Artisan attack case.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Farmers Bank’s former audit committee chairman Mahbubul Haque Chisty, alias Babul Chisty, and his son Rashedul Haque Chisty to 12 years’ rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over laundering Tk 160 crore from the bank.

Two men were handed the death penalty in Natore and Sirajganj yesterday on charges of killing their wives.

A farmer was hacked to death and two others were injured over a land dispute in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila Sunday night.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced 11 leaders and activists of Jubo Dal of Badda thana unit to three years imprisonment in a case filed over torching a private car in the city’s Progati Sarani area in November 2013.

Within the span of approximately five hours on Sunday, Rajshahi witnessed two murders.

Two officials of Royal Canadian Mounted Police yesterday narrated before a Dhaka court how some people, including a former Bangladeshi minister received bribes from Niko, a Canadian Oil and Gas Exploration Company, to award a gas exploration and extraction deal to the company.

A man was killed and 12 people were injured in a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy in Kashiani upazila of Goplganj today

A Bangladesh-origin US citizen, who posed as an adviser to US President Joe Biden during a press briefing at the BNP office, was sent to jail today in a case filed with Paltan Model Police Station

PBI ordered to investigate

A Dhaka court today sentenced 11 leaders and activists of Jubo Dal of Badda thana unit to three years imprisonment in a case filed over torching a private car in the city's Pragati Sarani area in November 2013

Two officials of Royal Canadian Mounted Police today narrated before a Dhaka court how some people, including a former Bangladeshi minister received bribes from Niko, a Canadian Oil and Gas Exploration Company, to award a gas exploration and extraction deal to the company

A garment employee died after suffering shotgun pellet wounds while protesting for higher wages in Gazipur's Bason area this afternoon

The High Court found seven death-row convicts in the Holey Artisan attack case guilty of involvement in hatching conspiracy, provoking and assisting the persons directly took part in the attack, a defence counsel said today.

Top law enforcement officials today informed the Election Commission that there were no big obstacles to arranging the upcoming national election

At least seven foreign missions in Bangladesh have issued a statement calling on all stakeholders to exercise restraint, refrain from violence and work together to create the conditions for free, fair, participatory and peaceful elections.