An accused in a drug case escaped from police custody in Jashore yesterday afternoon.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday said it has arrested three human traffickers who lured people with promises of lucrative jobs in Australia and Europe and trafficked them to India, where they were tortured in captivity for ransom.

Police officers believe that the two fugitive leaders of Ansar al Islam, for whose information the US State department declared a $5 million reward, are hiding somewhere in Bangladesh.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said Sayed Md Ziaul Haque alias Major Zia, who was sacked from army, and Akram Hossain are hiding abroad.

A miscreant killed a woman today in the Munshidpur area of Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila, allegedly over previous enmity. The attacker was later arrested by police.

Ruma Sarker, assistant professor of Begum Badrunnessa Government Girls’ College, yesterday got bail from the High Court after spending 61 days in jail in a Digital Security Act case.

The US State Department yesterday announced a $5 million reward for information on the killing of Avijit Roy and the concurrent attack on his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya in Dhaka in February 2015.

Three bus staffers were arrested early yesterday in a case filed over gang-raping a woman in a bus in Narayanganj’s Bandar upazila.

A Kushtia court yesterday rejected a case filed against former state minister for information and broadcasting Murad Hassan and Muhammad Mohiuddin Helal Nahid, a Facebook live talk show host.

The United States Department of State has announced up to $5 million as a reward for information on the killing of writer-blogger Avijit Roy and the concurrent attack on his wife Rafida Bonya Ahmed in Dhaka in 2015.

After 61 days in jail and being denied bail twice from the lower courts, Ruma Sarker, assistant professor of Begum Badrunnessa Government Girls College, has obtained bail from the High Court in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

A Kushtia court has rejected a case filed against former state minister for information and broadcasting Murad Hassan and Facebook live show host, Mohammad Mohiuddin Helal Nahid.

A Dhaka court today granted bail to cricketer Nasir Hossain and his wife Tamima Sultana in a case filed over adultery and defamation.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-4) last night arrested 10 alleged extortionists during a raid in Ashulia, Savar.

Supreme Court lawyer Md Eunus Ali Akond today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to allow BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to go abroad for better treatment.

The mutilated body of a missing Rohingya leader was recovered from an abandoned home in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia on Saturday – almost a year after he went missing.

The Detective Branch of the police has arrested five members of a gang that stole an export consignment worth about Tk 60 lakh of a unit of the Envoy Group, one of the biggest garment exporters from Bangladesh.

A Cumilla lawyer yesterday filed a case against former state minister for information Murad Hassan under the Digital Security Act, accusing him of making derogatory remarks against the family of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman.

At least 30 people including three journalists were injured in a clash between two factional groups of the Awami League at Galachipa upazila of Patuakhali this evening.

At least six people including a police official and a Chhatra League leader were injured in a clash over establishing supremacy between two groups of villagers at Rajoir upazila of Madaripur this evening.