Two men were killed in a “gunfight” between Rab members and a group of unidentified people in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila yesterday.

Police arrested Moinuddin Ahmed Babu, an aide to Cumilla City Corporation Mayor Monirul Haque Sakku, over the communal attacks in the city on October 13.

The Supreme Court yesterday observed that death-row convicts cannot be executed until the full texts of the verdicts affirming their death penalties are released.

The probe committee, formed to investigate the missing case of 17 purchase-related files from the health ministry, has got five more days to submit its probe report.

A local leader of Jubo League was shot today in a clash that broke out between supporters of two rival chairman candidates in the upcoming union parishad (UP) election to Shankarpara union in Sadar upazila of Pirojpur.

Police have arrested four youths in connection with a case filed over raping a girl at neighbourhood of Cumilla Sadar upazila.

A written complaint has been filed against Md Nazmul Islam, assistant commissioner (land) of Amtali upazila in Barguna, on the charge of attempting to rape a woman.

The High Court today issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to provide adequate compensation to the victims of the Hashem Foods fire incident, in Narayanganj’s Rupganj on July 8.

The High Court today directed family courts to dispose of cases -- filed over the custody of children -- in six months.

Jatiya Sramik League leader Jahirul Islam Sikder, who sustained bullet wounds in Cox’s Bazar on Friday night, died at a hospital this afternoon -- triggering protests in the district.

An official of the government's Access to Information (a2i) project was found dead today with several stab wounds on a roadside at the Tailkai village in Tongibari upazila of Munshiganj.

A full bench of the Appellate Division today upheld its chamber judge’s order -- directing four accused in a case over vandalising puja mandap in Cox’s Bazar -- to surrender to the lower court concerned in a week.

Police arrested Moinuddin Ahmed Babu, an aide to the Cumilla City Corporation Mayor Monirul Haque Sakku, over the communal attack in the district on October 13.

The Supreme Court today ordered the inspector general of prisons and jail authorities to suspend the execution of death penalty of Shukur Ali -- convicted in a child abduction, rape and murder case in Kushtia -- as the full text of verdict was not released and he could not seek review.

Two unidentified people were reportedly killed in a “gunfight” with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Sreemangal in Moulvibazar today.

A man has died by suicide after he killed his wife and nine-year-old daughter in Ashulia's Pobnartek area in Savar, police said.

A group of muggers killed an activist of Workers’ Party by entering into his house in Rajshahi city last night.

Religious minorities came under attack in 27 districts between October 13 and November 1, according to Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad.

A college student jumped off a moving bus at Manikganj’s Saturia upazila yesterday noon to escape rape attempt by the bus driver.

An activist of the Workers Party of Bangladesh was stabbed to death allegedly by muggers at his home in Hadi area of Rajshahi city last night.