A former Chhatra League leader was allegedly beaten by a female BCL leader at the Central Shaheed Minar in the early hours of today while he went to pay homage to language movement martyrs.

Two persons were detained in separate incidents over their suspicious movements at the Ekushey Book Fair at the Kazir Dewri area of Chattogram city this evening.

Rapid Action Battalion has arrested seven persons for running a racket that duped people by offering them jobs and swindled money from more than 700 job seekers in the last six months.

Family members of a man in Sunamganj, who died at a hospital today, alleged that he succumbed to injuries due to custodial torture on February 10.

The government is set to amend both sections of the Evidence Act in order to put an end to questioning the character of rape victims in court.

Three days after sacking Sharif Uddin, the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday came up with 13 allegations against the former officer whose investigation into a land acquisition scam made headlines in 2020 and 2021.

A Habiganj court yesterday sent two men to jail on charges of looting and gang-raping a woman in the district’s Madhabpur upazila.

Nasir Hossain (50) was already accused in several burglary cases before he left the country years ago, illegally, for France.

Police today arrested two alleged muggers for stabbing a spice trader in Jatrabari to death early this morning.

A 55-year-old man was arrested today in a case filed for raping a four-year-old girl in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila.

The High Court directed the authorities concerned to immediately take necessary steps to curb mosquito menace at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) area in Dhaka.

The burglary of over 300 bhori of gold ornaments from Rangapori Jewellers in Dhaka was orchestrated by a Bangladesh man living in France.

Customs officials seized two pistols and 60 bullets smuggled from Italy through postal service in Chattogram -- in the name of importing household goods.

A Dhaka court today rejected bail petitions of two close aides of Proshanto Kumar Haldar alias PK Haldar, the former managing director of NRB Global Bank, in a case filed over laundering Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassing about Tk 426 crore illegally.

A spice trader was stabbed to death in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area early this morning.

Sharif Uddin, who was sacked by the Anti-Corruption Commission last week, said he had always tried to unmask the corrupt and confiscate illegal wealth during his time at the commission. 

A Bangladeshi man was shot dead yesterday at his shop in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Police today arrested three persons in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi for beating a 17-year-old boy suspecting him to be a thief.

Over the last three years, Sharif Uddin painstakingly enquired and investigated corruption allegations and recommended the Anti-Corruption Commission file 22 graft cases against various individuals and quarters in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar.

A local Awami League leader was shot dead and four others with him were injured yesterday in Bheramara, Kushtia.