Customs officials detained a man and seized 44 gold bars from inside two hammers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Tuesday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College’s Assistant Professor, Dr Salauddin Chowdhury, on charge of sexually harassing a student.

Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) today arrested the reported mastermind, also the military commander of a faction (New JMB) of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh over the bomb blast at a traffic police box in Chattogram's Sholoshahar Gate-2 area on February 28 last year.

An official of a garment factory was arrested early today in a case filed over raping a worker in the factory at Ashulia in Savar.

Two handcuffed youths escaped from Saturia Upazila Health Complex in Manikganj early today.

Police detained three activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir from Sylhet Government Alia Madrasa this afternoon.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today arrested Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College’s Assistant Professor, Dr Abu Saleh Mohammad Salauddin Chowdhury, on charge of sexually harassing a student.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said that steps have been taken to prevent the misuse of the Digital Security Act.

Two persons were killed in a gunfight between two outlawed groups in Baghaichhariupazila of Rangamati today, police said.

Customs officials detained a man and seized 44 gold bars from inside two hammers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka last night.

Rab claimed to have arrested four persons including one of the "masterminds" behind torching and vandalising buses during protests following the death of a student in Dhaka's Rampura on November 29.

A Chattogram court yesterday awarded life term imprisonment to six persons for killing a youth in 2014.

One of the main accused in the Cox’s Bazar tourist rape case was arrested yesterday, while two women, including a voter, were raped in two separate incidents in Noakhali and Chuadanga.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked police to submit the probe report by January 16 in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir.

At least three men got killed and many others were injured in post-polls violence in several districts over the last two days.

Department of Environment (DoE) demolished 10 brick kilns and fined the owners Tk 42 lakh for causing severe environmental pollution in Dhamrai’s Kalampur and Mohudanga area yesterday.

Workers of an RMG factory in Ashulia yesterday demonstrated inside the premises over an alleged incident of sexual assault of one of their female co-worker.

At least two Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members and several locals were injured in a clash with suspected drug peddlers during an anti-narcotics drive in Baromasia Tea Garden, under Chattogram’s Fatikchhari upazila, on Monday night.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Shimul Ahmed (27) a constable of Armed Police Battalion (APBN), on a one-day remand in a case filed against him on charge of raping a 13-year-old girl in Dhaka’s Motijheel area.

A lab technician was beaten to death in broad daylight by miscreants in Habiganj today.