Bangladesh Coast Guard seized around 27 lakh shrimp fry in Barguna’s Patharghata this morning while those were being smuggled to Khulna.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against former chief justice SK Sinha and his brother Ananta Sinha for laundering about Tk 2.35 crore ($280,000).

Three people were killed after their motorcycle crashed into a roadside tree in Dinajpur’s Nawabganj upazila early yesterday, said police.

Police yesterday arrested a college teacher and a landlord on charges of raping a college student in Sherpur town on Wednesday night.

A Dhaka court yesterday again asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit, this time by April 20, the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

Tangail Awami League members attacked Khan Ahmed Shubho, an AL lawmaker of Tangail-7 (Mirzapur), after an upazila unit party conference yesterday afternoon.

Over 100 farmers in Aditmari upazila are ringing an alarm as a local influential is digging a pond on around 22 bighas of land without prior approval of the authorities, which they think might make their cropland waterlogged.

The authorities of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) have demolished around 40 illegal structures on its 5.88 acres of land in Savar Bank Colony area.

A ward councillor assaulted a secondary school headmaster for not allowing him to keep construction materials on Lahini Secondary School grounds in Kushtia municipality yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges against five people, including expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia, her husband Mofizur

He was once a preacher, giving sermons at different waz-mahfils. At the time, he was merely a Jamaat-Shibir activist in Satkhira’s Kalaroa upazila.

A Dhaka court today placed each of the four muggers on a four-day remand in a case filed over the murder of dentist Ahmed Mahi Bulbul in the capital on March 27.

Detectives have arrested two persons including a wholesale medicine seller and seized huge adulterated medicines from Dhaka and Chuadanga.

A Dhaka court today accepted charges against five people including expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia, her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon, also a former Chhatra League leader, in a Tk 3.23 crore money laundering case.

Nine skeletons have been stolen from a graveyard at Ghior upazila in Manikganj last night.

A man was killed early today in a clash allegedly over establishing supremacy – between two factions of a ward Awami League unit – at Charkewar union in Munshiganj Sadar upazila. Police have detained a man over involvement in the incident.

The killers of Ananta Bijoy Das wanted to stop him writing and also to silence those who champion the cause of free speech.

About one in ten mobile financial services users said they have been victims of fraud, found a survey, underscoring the need for boosting the security of the platform to thwart social engineering.

Dentist Ahmed Mahi Bulbul was stabbed to death by muggers in the capital as he tried to resist them on Sunday, said police.

A man has been sued over raping a schoolgirl in Feni.