International Crimes Tribunal-1 today sentenced two persons, including a former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker from Satkhira, to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

Police today recovered the body of a union parishad member in Saturia upazila of Manikganj.

Five members of Bangshal Police Station including a sub-inspector were stabbed by muggers in front of Bangshal Police Station in Dhaka last night.

Police have arrested a man on charges of vandalising idols in a Hindu temple in the capital’s Khilgaon on Monday.

A local court yesterday sentenced Talim Prodhan, a member of banned militant group JMB, to 14 years rigorous imprisonment.

A Supreme Court committee yesterday directed the judges concerned to form committees for receiving complaints of sexual harassment at lower courts across the country.

Throat-slit body of a schoolboy, who had gone missing Tuesday night, was recovered from a pond in Kagujipara village of Tangail’s Kalihati upazila yesterday morning.

Miscreants poisoned fish to death in a pond over previous enmity in Ghatail upazila of Tangail.

Three individuals were killed and four others were injured in two separate road accidents in Jashore yesterday.

A sub-inspector, who was in jail for raping a woman, finally got bail today after he married the victim at the court premises in Panchagarh.

An accused in a gang-rape case of a teenager in Narayanganj's Bandar upazila has died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital today while undergoing treatment. Police have detained two brothers of the victim in the incident.

A Dhaka tribunal today sentenced two robbers to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over killing an Ansar official in the city's Uttarkhan in September, 2008.

After 13 years into the High Court directive to prevent sexual harassment at workplaces, the Supreme Court administration today  asked the judges concerned of lower courts to form a sexual harassment complaint committee at every judgeship and magistracy across the country.

The Anti-Corruption Commission today filed a case against Prof Mollah Amir Hossain, former chairman of Jashore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education and nine others for embezzling TK 1.20 crore through purchasing computers, computer parts, and printers.

A Dhaka court today deferred till May 13 the hearing on framing of charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in connection with two cases filed over undermining the national flag and observing a "fake birthday" on August 15.

Two siblings were burnt after their brother-in-law (sister’s husband) poured boiling water on them in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area early this morning.

The High Court today confirmed death sentence of Kabirul Islam, son of former Jatiya Party lawmaker Karimuddin Vorosha, for killing his younger brother -- Khairul Islam Vorosha -- in 2009.

A gunfight occurred between two armed gangs in the remote hilly border area of Rangamati and Bandarban district yesterday (March 22).

A housewife attempted to take her own life after police allegedly physically assaulted the woman and her mother-in-law in Chuadanga’s Damurhuda upazila yesterday.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against 11 people, including seven doctors, in a case filed over irregularities in the procurement of drugs for Maternal and Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka’s Azimpur.