A Moulvibazar court sent a man to jail yesterday on charges of raping a 20-year-old woman with disabilities in Kamalganj upazila.

Rab has arrested five men accused of killing local Awami League leader Siddiqur Rahman in Bheramara upazila of the district on Friday.

Customs intelligence officials yesterday seized 90 gold bars weighing 10.5kg at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

ACC yesterday filed a case against former managing director of NRB Global Bank PK Halder and 20 others for embezzling about Tk 34.35 crore from FAS Finance and Investment.

Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) yesterday requested the High Court to direct the government to enforce one year’s jail sentence against the owners of illegal brick kilns for polluting the environment.

A mobile court of DoE has fined seven illegal brick kilns of a total of Tk 38 lakh, on charges of polluting the environment.

A case has been filed against Bangladesh Chhatra League Savar upazila’s Sadar union unit President Sohel Rana for reportedly raping a 14-year-old girl and recording the incident on cell phone.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against former managing director of NRB Global Bank, Proshanta Kumar Halder -- also known as PK Halder -- and 20 others for embezzling around Tk 34.35 crore from FAS Finance and Investment, a non-banking financial institution.

A Dhaka tribunal today sentenced a man and three others to death for killing his wife in Gopalganj in February 2016.

Investigations into the recent death of a man -- reportedly after torture in custody -- in Shantiganj upazila of Sunamganj are in their final stage, according to the two probe bodies formed in this connection.

Rab has arrested 14 members of a fraud gang, which deceived outbound passengers of several crores of taka by assuring them of providing negative Covid-19 test reports needed for travel.

Students of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj have been demonstrating, blocking Dhaka-Khulna highway since this morning -- protesting rape of a fellow student last night.

River police have detained 12 persons with huge amount of unrefined soybean oil, which were smuggled from the outer anchorage of deep sea via an oil tanker, from Karnaphuli Ghat in Chattogram early today.

Sub-inspector Debashish Sutradhar of Sunamganj’s Santiganj Police Station has been transferred, two days after the death of Wazir Mia -- reportedly from torture in custody.

Customs Intelligence officials seized 90 gold bars weighing 10.5 kg at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport this morning.

The custodial torture of Wazir Mia, who died from injuries in Sunamganj on Monday, was plotted by a sub-inspector over a feud with a UP member related to the policeman, alleged the victim’s family.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against Oviur Rahman Khan, managing director of Apple GlobalTel Communication Ltd, for laundering around Tk 463.37 crore abroad.

A physically challenged minor girl was raped in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to submit by March 27 the probe report of a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday seeking its directive on the authorities to conduct an independent inquiry into the reported allegations and counter-allegations over the termination of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) official Sharif Uddin.