A Dhaka court today rejected the bail petitions of 146 leaders and activists of the BNP and its front organisations in a case over the December-7 clash in Nayapaltan area.

The High Court today ordered the jail authorities to give division facilities in jail to five BNP leaders arrested in a case over the December-7 clash between police and the party activists in the capital's Nayapaltan.

It has been 99 days and counting that Pritom Das, a political activist, has been in the jail without committing a murder, rape, or any major crime like forgery, said his friends and colleagues yesterday at a human chain demanding his immediate release.

Buet students, who had been demanding justice for their recently deceased peer Fardin Noor Parash, will not be holding any fresh protests for now.

Criminals shot an expatriate Bangladeshi businessman living in South Africa and kidnapped his younger brother last night.

Five children were hacked allegedly by their aunt over a property-related dispute in Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila on Friday.

Hinting at the BNP, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq today said would the police just stand there and watch if chaos is created in the city of 2 crore.

Buet students, who were protesting the death of their peer Fardin Noor Parash, will not be holding any fresh programmes right now.

In jail for more than a month despite apparently being innocent of the crime she has been accused of, Amatullah Bushra is devastated at Kashimpur Women’s Central Jail, her family members said.

Rab yesterday claimed to have arrested 31 members of organised mugging gangs from different parts of the capital.

A youth stabbed to death a father in Pabna Sadar upazila on Thursday night for failing to marry his daughter, said police.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested two fugitives, convicted for separate offences, from Hatirjheel and Keraniganj areas in Dhaka.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday claimed to have  arrested 31 members of organised mugging gangs from different parts of  the capital.

A group of students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) visited the Rab headquarters to see the findings and evidence collected by the elite force during their investigation in the death of their peer Fardin Noor Parash.

She was arrested by Rampura police on November 10 in a case filed over the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash. On Wednesday, DB said they found that Bushra was not involved in his death.

A case has been filed against over 100 leaders and activists of Awami League in connection with yesterday’s clash between two factions of Awami League over establishing supremacy at Jamuna Fertilizer Factory (JFCL) area in Jamalpur's Sarishabari upazila.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said the detectives and Rab members came up with full details about the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash after analysing all the issues related to it.

After using his connections to make fake NID cards of his political opponents and buying several SIM cards using those, Shahidul Islam Maznu, UP chairman of Faridpur’s Ishan Gopalpur, rented a flat in the capital’s Jatrabari.

It was a fateful night for Fazilatunnesa’s family. Ruling party men stormed her house in Wari at midnight, just two nights before the BNP's December 10 grand rally -- killing one of her sons and whisking away another son. All these happened because of her grandson's involvement with BNP's politics, she said.

Rab has arrested four people in connection with raping a woman in Khulna.