A Cox’s Bazar court yesterday sentenced 101 yaba dealers, who surrendered to police nearly four years ago, to one and a half years in prison and fined each of them Tk 20,000 in a drug case.

Eight police officials were sued over the death of a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist allegedly in police firing.

Police yesterday arrested a madrasa teacher for allegedly raping a 12-year-old boy in Chattogram city’s Joynab colony.

Out of the 101 yaba peddlers sentenced to one and a half years in jail and awarded a penalty of Tk 20,000 by a Cox’s Bazar court today in a drug case, eight are from the family of Abdur Rahman Bodi, a former Awami League lawmaker.

Following the snatching of two death-row convicts from police custody, police today produced three members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team -- accused in the murder of secularist blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu -- before a Dhaka court with fetters and handcuffs.

Counterterrorism officials arrested one of the Ansar al Islam operatives who took part in snatching away of two death-row convicts from the police custody on a Dhaka court premises on November 20.

The killing of an elderly man in his Chawkbazar flat in Dhaka on November 17 was not a simple case of robbery as law enforcers suspected primarily after seeing the nature of the crime.

A Cox's Bazar court today sentenced 101 yaba peddlers to a year and a half in jail and fined them Tk 20,000 each in a drugs case.

Eight police personnel, including the superintendent of police (SP) in Brahmanbaria, were sued over the killing of a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activist in alleged police firing in Bancharampur upazila on November 19.

A Cox’s Bazar court is scheduled to deliver the verdict of a case filed against 101 yaba traders, who surrendered in the district nearly four years ago

Two teenagers were hacked allegedly by some Argentine fans in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, after Argentina lost to Saudi Arabia in the World Cup match yesterday.

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection yesterday seized around 500 sacks of sugar, weighing 29 tonnes, from a warehouse in Chattogram’s Boropool area.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed till December 5 a High Court order  that granted bail to suspended Anti-Corruption Commission director  Khandaker Enamul Basir in a Tk 40-lakh bribery case.

Two teenagers were hacked allegedly by some Argentine fans in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, after Argentina lost to Saudi Arabia in the World Cup match yesterday.

Ansar Al Islam’s military wing members snatched their fellows from police custody so that they could execute a plan to launch a major attack, Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime officials told The Daily Star yesterday.

At least 60 people, including seven policemen, were injured as law enforcers and BNP men clashed in Sherpur town yesterday afternoon.

A case was filed with a Narayanganj court yesterday against 16 local Jubo League and Chhatra league leaders and activists for the death of a Chhatra Dal leader three weeks ago.

A Sirajganj court yesterday sentenced five people to life in prison for killing a minor in Sirajganj’s Belkuchi upazila in February last year.

A woman was hacked to death yesterday by unidentified criminals in her house in Rakudia village in Barishal’s Babuganj upazila.

A case has been filed against eight people, including six journalists, under Digital Security Act for publishing reports on corruption against a sacked surveyor in Barishal.