Police arrested a union parishad member and his two cohorts on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in beating up three youths on theft charge in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila.

Rab on Wednesday detained the driver of a truck  from Chandgaon area of port city, after a van-puller was killed by his truck in the capital’s Bailey Road area on January 24.

A first-year mass communication student at Dhaka University was allegedly bullied and mentally tortured by a few seniors in the guest room of Bijoy Ekattor Hall on Wednesday night.

Police arrested a union parishad member and his two cohorts yesterday for their alleged involvement in beating up three youths on theft charges in Mymensingh’s Fulbaria upazila.

A woman was absconding after being sued for becoming second time voter in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila.

A Kushtia court today sent an office assistant of Kushtia’s Daulatpur upazila sub-registrar (land) office who was arrested last night along with Tk 31,200 in bribe money, to jail today.

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) detained two people, including a security guard of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, and seized 30 gold bars weighing 3.5kg at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport this afternoon.

The Anti-Corruption Commission today submitted to the High Court a report containing the names of 61 Bangladeshi individuals and seven organisations mentioned in the Panama Papers as money launderers.

The police attack on the protesting students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) was being investigated and action would be taken against those involved, if the allegation is proved to be true, said Police Headquarters today.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 1.80 lakh yaba pills worth Tk 5.40 crore from the Naf river along Kharangkhali area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

A gang of sand lifters has been choking the flow of the Brahmaputra in Roumari upazila of Kurigram district by creating a road across the river in Kartimari Boat Ghat area.

The High Court yesterday accepted the jail appeals of 17 death-row convicts in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case for hearing.

One of the two buses, which crushed a teenage boy in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area on January 20, was being driven by a helper who has no driving licence.

The move to bring money launderers to book is not making any headway as the Anti-Corruption Commission and different government agencies have failed to submit information on the offenders, their deposits in overseas banks, and properties abroad before the High Court despite its orders to do so.

Police high-ups yesterday started discussing with their chief a list of over 100 demands, including a replacement of long-barrel firearms with short arms for on-duty policemen, and the establishment of an independent cyber unit and a cyber and IT training academy to cope with rising cybercrimes.

A schoolgirl was raped allegedly by two men in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila on Tuesday.

A prisoner, convicted in multiple cheque forgery cases, died in Dinajpur jail on Tuesday night.

The municipal mayor of Moheshkhali in Cox’s Bazar was sent to jail yesterday in an attempted murder case of freedom fighter Amzad Hossain.

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today arrested the driver of the truck that killed a man and injured another after hitting two rickshaw vans in Dhaka’s Bailey Road on Monday.

Five including the chairman of Dantmara Union Parishad under Fatikchhari upazila of Chattogram Mohammad Jane Alam (54) were sued on charges of embezzling Tk 6.56 lakh.