Thirteen robbers were arrested following a “gunfight” in Chandpur on Saturday evening, said police.

Police yesterday detained a man on charges of damaging communal harmony.

Eight BNP men were shown arrested today in a case filed over attacking policemen and vandalising vehicles during a clash in Gazipur city yesterday.

Panchagarh police today filed five separate cases against 1,200 people, including 81 named, over the clash between BNP activists and police during the party's procession yesterday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two people along with 17 gold bars that the duo was allegedly trying to smuggle to India through the Putkhali border in Benapole.

A fifth-grader was raped in Gaibandha’s Gobindganj upazila and admitted to the Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College in critical condition.

A man, who was injured when a bomb he was allegedly making exploded in his house in Shariatpur's Zajira upazila on December 21, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital today.

Police arrested at least 85 activists from Jamaat-Shibir processions in different districts today.

Police stopped Japanese citizen Nakano Erico and her two daughters from leaving the country at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday.

Escape of two convicted militants from the court premises is a failure of the law enforcers, M Khurshid Hossain, director general of Rapid Action Battalion, has said.

The authorities seized over 2,000 tonnes of paddy from an under-construction rice mill in Bogura Sadar upazila for hoarding it illegally.

Police recovered the body of a schoolboy in Rajbari’s Pangsha upazila yesterday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party's Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas may have to wait for at least nine more days to seek bail from the High Court in the case filed over the December 7 clash between party activists and police.

A complaint was filed today against Nurul Amin, an Awami League-backed candidate for the post of Sindurna union chairman in the upcoming by-polls in Lalmonirhat's Hatibandha upazila, for allegedly assaulting a local journalist.

Police have arrested a youth on charge of raping a 12-year-old girl in Langadu upazila of Rangamati.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) finds the escape of two convicted militants from the court premises and yet to arrest them as a failure.

The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) last night, handed over the body of a Bangladeshi youth who was tortured to death on December 17.

Four Rohingya refugees, including a child, sustained bullet wounds in an act of gun violence at a camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar on Thursday afternoon.

Two members of a newly formed militant outfit -- “Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya” -- have been arrested in the capital and Sylhet, said the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit yesterday.

Eight youths, who were abducted from a hilly stream in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Sunday, returned to their families yesterday.