Fazle Azim, whose wife and daughter were killed on Wednesday in Noakhali, said the suspect had lied in his confession.

Turkey has escalated drone attacks on Kurdish-held regions of north and northeast Syria this week, killing 16 people including one civilian in a single day, a war monitor said yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday fixed June 19 to decide whether it will accept charges against 33 people, including at least nine leaders of different units of the ruling Awami League and its associate bodies, in the case filed over the murders of Awami Leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and Samia Afran Jamal Prity in March last year. 

The Jamalpur district correspondent of Banglanews24.com, who was assaulted allegedly by the followers of a local union parishad chairman last night, died at a hospital in Mymensingh this afternoon

A war crimes accused died after he fell sick at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj this morning.

The High Court today said if necessary, it would send those found involved in embezzlement of imported chemical fertilisers straight to the jail.

A Dhaka court today fixed June 25 to deliver verdict against expelled Jubo League leader GK Shamim, a top contractor of government projects, and his seven bodyguards in a money laundering case

A Dhaka court today fixed June 19 to decide whether it will accept charges against 33 people, including at least nine leaders of different units of the ruling Awami League and its associate bodies, in the case filed over the murders of Awami Leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and Samia Afran Jamal Prity in March last year

A Dhaka court today set July 16 for hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in 11 cases, including a sedition case.

Rab Director General M Khurshid Hossain has said Jasmine’s “murder” in Naogaon has tarnished the image of the country, the government and the force.

More than 50 persons including police were injured in clashes yesterday among people of several villages in Sylhet over the making a temporary drainage on the side of the road to drain stagnant water.

A Rab-4 team arrested 10 members of a fake stamp making gang from different areas Ashulia and Manikganj near the capital, and recovered stamps worth Tk 22 crore from their possession on Tuesday.

A woman and her daughter were stabbed to death at their residence in Noakhali town yesterday.

Police claimed to have arrested a gang of 16 pickpockets in the capital on Tuesday.

In one of those instances when irony takes over the centre stage in the realm of politics, a Patuakhali Awami League leader yesterday resigned for an attack, allegedly carried out by fellow party activists on mayoral candidate and chief of Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) Faizul Karim during the Barishal City polls on June 12.

The Department of Narcotics Control seized 1,15,000 pieces of yaba pills from a minibus in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A Cumilla court yesterday sentenced two people to death for killing a man in Homna upazila in 2010.

At least two people died in road accidents in Dhaka and Jashore yesterday.

A second video clip of a Bangladeshi UN official, reportedly abducted by Al-Qaeda in Yemen, has allegedly been released by the terrorist outfit as “proof of life”.

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her 10-year-old daughter from Dhaka’s Badda area early yesterday.