Police today arrested another key accused in a case filed over the rape of a tourist in Cox's Bazar.

Initiative is now being taken for speedy disposal of under-trial narcotics cases, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said.

A Dhaka court today placed Md 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 Dhaka University (DU) student was allegedly beaten by a peer yesterday.

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

Another case has been filed in connection with the fire on MV Abhijan-10 launch in Sugandha river near Jhalakathi, which led to deaths of at least 41 people.

A Dhaka court today again asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit -- by January 16 -- the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka's Gulshan.

Police yesterday arrested a man in a case filed for raping a 13-year-old schoolgirl in the capital's Motijheel.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC) recovered 15 mortar shells and four boxes of bullets during a search operation at Satchhari National Park in Habiganj yesterday.

An expelled leader of Awami Swechhasebak League has been illegally extracting soil from the bank of Bhairab river in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore district in the middle of the night despite an administrative ban on such activities.

Eighty-three percent of the 225 Digital Security Act cases lodged between January and November this year were filed over social media posts and individuals’ online expressions.

Hiding in Dubai, top criminal Zeesan Ahmed is running his extortion racket in Dhaka through regular communications with a death-row convict in Kashimpur jail.   

Rab yesterday arrested Hamjalal Sheikh, one of the owners of MV Abhijan-10, from Dhaka’s Keraniganj.

Ashiqul Islam Ashiq raped a woman in Cox’s Bazar last Wednesday after she and her husband refused to give them the Tk 50,000 they demanded as extortion, Rab officers said yesterday.

Four people were detained with 11.22kg of gold by customs officials at Sylhet’s Osmani International Airport yesterday.

An organised syndicate leaked the question papers of recruitment tests for five state-run banks in a contract of Tk 2.80 crore, an arrestee said in his confessional statement.

At least 20 people were injured in a factional clash between two groups of the local Awami League in Bauphal upazila of Patuakhali this afternoon.

Film actor Pori Moni was served a legal notice today to remove all her "indecent" pictures and videos from social media in 30 days.

Ashiqul Islam Ashiq and his associates raped a woman in Cox’s Bazar last Wednesday after she along with her husband refused to give them the Tk 50,000 that they demanded as extortion.

A Dhaka court today set January 9 for the delivery of judgment in a graft case filed against Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, over the recovery of Tk 80 lakh from his residence in Dhaka.