A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced a Peruvian national to life imprisonment for possessing 2.3kg of cocaine. Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Farhana Ferdous handed down the sentence in presence of convict Jaime Bardales Gomez, 52.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against model and former television presenter Faria Mahbub Piyasha in a narcotic case.

Counterterrorism officials have claimed that the newly-formed militant outfit “Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya” were planning to create an arsenal in the remote hilly areas.

A judge of a division bench of the High Court yesterday refused to hold hearing of the bail petition of death-row convict Ayesha Siddika Minni in the case filed for murdering her husband Rifat Sharif in Barguna.

Police have recovered the bodies of two Rohingya nationals from the Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

US Assistant Secretary for State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu will discuss ways to strengthen bilateral relations and economic engagement during his visit to Bangladesh on January 14-15.

A case was filed yesterday against some kidney patients and their relatives who have been protesting the recent hike in dialysis fee at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital.

Police have recovered the bodies of two Rohingya nationals from the Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

A Cox's Bazar court today sentenced six Myanmar nationals to 10 years in jail and in a yaba smuggling case.

Forty inspectors have been promoted to the post of assistant superintendent of police (ASP).

Schoolteacher Nurul Amin, 55, who was abducted from Lalmonirhat five days ago, was rescued from a house in Tejgaon area of the capital this afternoon.

The High Court today denied bail to Fardin Iftekhar Dihan, lone accused in the case filed over the rape and murder of an O-level student at Dhaka's Kalabagan in January 2021.

Unidentified men shot a fish trader to death in Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore this morning.

A Dhaka court today awarded a life sentence to a Peruvian national in a case filed over possessing 2.3kg cocaine worth around Tk 50 crore in September 2015.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against model and former TV presenter Faria Mahbub Piyasha in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.

A judge of a division bench of the High Court today refused to hold hearing of the bail petition of death-row convict Ayesha Siddika Minni in the case filed for murdering her husband Rifat Sharif in Barguna.

A Dhaka court today asked Detective Branch (DB) of police to submit by February 27 the report of the probe into the murders of Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and college student Samia Afran Jamal Prity in Dhaka on March 24 last year.

At least 20 vehicles were vandalised and six buses set on fire by a mob on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gachha area of Gazipur city last evening following a rumour of road crash deaths.

At least five people were injured as police charged with batons to disperse a demonstration in Chattogram city yesterday.

Police yesterday recovered an unidentified handcuffed body in Natore’s Baraigram upazila.