A local Awami League leader has been accused in a case of raping a 15-year-old girl with physical disabilities in Madaripur town.

A Chattogram businessman hiding in Dhaka to avoid arrest was caught by police on Thursday.

A Thakrugaon court on Thursday sentenced three men to life in prison for possessing 300 bottles of Phensedyl in November 2018.

Three persons, including two local Chhatra League leaders, were sent to jail today (September 30, 2022) in a case filed for allegedly demanding extortion from a construction company at the construction site at Saltha upazila in Faridpur.

Police recovered the floating body of a woman, wrapped in a blanket, from a pond in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi today (September 30, 2022).

Chattogram Metropolitan Police have arrested a fugitive businessman from a house at Gulshan in Dhaka in connection with 21 cases filed with two police stations in the port city.

At least 15 people were killed in “extrajudicial killings” and “custody of law enforcement agencies” across the country till September of this year, Ain O Salish Kendra said in a report.

A member of the Hijra community was stabbed to death in Dhaka’s Paribagh area early today.

Slain Teknaf municipality councillor Ekramul Haque’s widow yesterday said people like outgoing IGP Benazir Ahmed would never express remorse over her husband’s death in a “gunfight with Rab” as it would “prove they killed him extrajudicially and they won’t be able to skirt liability”.

Rahima Begum was not abducted; she willingly went into hiding, said Police Bureau of Investigation yesterday.

Nine persons were sued under Digital Security Act (DSA) for allegedly making "derogatory" comments against the member of parliament of Chittagong-15 constituency (Satkania-Lohagara) Abu Reza Mohammad Nezamuddin Nadvi and his wife Rizia Chowdhury on Facebook.

A Dhaka court has found flaws in the charge sheet submitted by the Department of Narcotics Control in a case filed over the recovery of around 39,000 yaba pills from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in 2020.

A local court yesterday sent a former Munshiganj Chhatra League leader to jail in a case over hurting people’s religious sentiment through a Facebook post.

To collect funds, increase organisational strength, and avoid arrest, Al-Qaeda-inspired militant outfit Ansar Al Islam is now sending its permanent members abroad.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced the son-in-law of Sultan Shahriar Rashid, an executed killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for his derogatory remarks about the father of the nation and for glorifying his killers on Facebook. 

Amit Dutta, assistant commissioner (land) of Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila, was on Wednesday transferred for beating two office employees with shoes. 

Police recovered the body of a British national from a hotel in Dhaka’s Uttara area yesterday morning.

The first step of the operation: recce flats and apartments in different areas. Once the lights are turned off, the real action begins.

Law enforcers early yesterday recovered three bodies from Ghasiar Char area of Noakhali’s Hatiya after what coast guards said was a “gunfight” between two groups of robbers.

A former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in Munshiganj was sent to jail today (September 29, 2022) in a case filed by another BCL leader for hurting “religious sentiment” through a Facebook post.