Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) has suspended nine students for breaching university discipline following the death of Prof Selim Hossain of electrical and electronic engineering department.  

Demanding a separate justice system for children, speakers at a  roundtable yesterday highlighted that punishment should not be the main  purpose of juvenile justice; rather measures should be taken so they do not get involved in  any criminal activity.

A local Jubo League leader was arrested today on charge of extortion in Natore.

Five people including two women were detained with explosives from a suspected militant hideout in Nilphamari's Sadar upazila around 11:00 am today, said police.

A seven-year-old girl has been fighting for life after she got raped and hanged from the ceiling of her home in a village in Birol, Dinajpur, said her family members and police.

Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested 40 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city in the last 24 hours till 6am yesterday.

A schoolboy who was missing for a day was found dead today in a drain in Pirojpur’s Bhandaria upazila.

Police detained a man along with 20 gold bars, weighing 2.25 kg, from a bus on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Chandina upazila of Cumilla today.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion during a drive arrested five robbers of a gang including its ringleader from the Galachipa Ferry Terminal area of Patuakhali early today.

A woman was found dead at her house at the Patharghata upazila of Barguna early today.

A local court on Thursday sentenced a man to death for killing his pregnant wife in Jhikargachha Upazila of Jashore in 2013, over dowry.

A man reportedly raped a primary school student at Bhir Narayan village under Senbag upazila in Noakhali when she was returning home after school last afternoon.

The prime accused in the Cumilla double-murder case was killed in a “gunfight” with police in the city early yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced 13 people to death and 19 others to life imprisonment for the killing of six students in Aminbazar on the outskirts of the capital more than 10 years ago.

A fifth-grader was raped by a 45-year-old man in a village of Noakhali’s Senbag yesterday afternoon, police said, quoting her mother. 

The government has stayed the joining of the recently appointed assistant judge Md Shah Paran, as he is accused of a criminal case filed on charge of physically assaulting a woman in Cox's Bazar in December last year.

A case has been filed with Naogaon court today against former Gazipur City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Zahangir Alam, who was removed from his post recently, over controversial comments on Bangabandhu and Liberation War martyrs.

The High Court today confirmed the death sentence of two convicts, upheld the life imprisonment of one, and acquitted two others in a case filed for the rape and murder of a child, Tania Akhter, in Narayanganj, 22 years ago.

A Dhaka court today sentenced 13 people to death and 19 others to life in jail for killing six students in Aminbazar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, 10 years ago.

The main accused in the murder of Cumilla ward councillor Syed Mohammad Sohel and his aide, was killed in a reported gunfight in the city with law enforcers early today.