A Dhaka court today allowed police to investigate a general diary (GD) filed against former state minister for information and broadcasting Murad Hassan, for allegedly torturing and abusing his wife.

The High Court today directed the government to inform the progress of implementing its 2009 directives for preventing sexual harassment at workplaces across the country.

A Dhaka court today started hearing arguments of the prosecution and defence in Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case.

Three firearms licensed under the names of former state minister for information, Dr Murad Hassan, and his wife Dr Jahanara Ehsan have been handed over to Dhanmondi Police Station yesterday.

Former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter was shown arrested today in a case which he filed over murder of his wife -- Mahmuda Khanam Mitu -- with Panchlaish Police Station in 2016.

The driver of Meghla Paribahan bus, which hit and killed two pedestrians in Gulistan yesterday, had been driving the bus with light vehicle licence for around two years.

A Dhaka court today sentenced Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, to eight years’ imprisonment in a case filed over recovery of Tk 80 lakh from his Dhanmondi residence in July 2020.

A tea stall owner died while he was being interrogated in a room of Hatibandha Police Station in Lalmonirhat on Friday. The CCTV camera in that room was not working when it happened.

Law enforcers yesterday arrested six people, including the prime accused, over the gang rape of two Garo schoolgirls in Mymensingh’s Haluaghat upazila 11 days ago.

A member of the hijra community was stabbed to death in Jashore yesterday.

Police recovered bodies of a woman and a man from a house at Jhajor area under Gacha Police Station in Gazipur earlier today.

A rape case has been filed against a man for allegedly raping his wife's sister-in-law in Santahar municipality's Rodbari area in Bogura on Thursday night.

An assistant teacher of a government primary school in Rajbari was allegedly physically assaulted by the school's headmaster today during an altercation between them over leave.

Miscreants killed a member of the local hijra community in Jashore this morning.

At least three persons were injured, including two by bullets, after gunmen opened fire to occupy a rickshaw garage in Dhaka’s Rayerbazar this morning.

Law enforcers arrested six persons including the prime accused of a case filed over the rape of two girls from the Garo community in Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh on December 27.

A man died in the custody of Hatibandha Police Station in Lalmonirhat yesterday, after he was picked up for interrogation following the death of his wife.

A six-month-old child died on Thursday as he along with his twin brother was allegedly driven out of a private hospital in the capital’s Shyamoli after their parents failed to pay the bills.

It has been 11 years since Felani, a Bangladeshi teenager, was shot dead by a member of India’s Border Security Force and left hanging from the barbed fence of the border along Kurigram, but her family is still waiting for justice.

A 65-year-old man was killed and 10 others were injured in a clash over money between two families in Bera of Pabna.