The Supreme Court today ruled that the term any convict has served in jail during trial proceedings will be deducted from the total tenure of his/her imprisonment.

A Dhaka court has ordered Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) for a further investigation into the case filed by BSMMU authorities against Aparajita International proprietor, Sharmin Jahan, over supplying fake N95 masks.

Detectives arrested two persons in connection with the murder of an informant -- for helping police arrest a drug peddler in Dhaka’s Rampura area.

Counterterrorism officials arrested four firearms traders, including a legal arms dealer, on charge of collecting arms and ammunition illegally and selling those to criminal groups.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), in collaboration with Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC), arrested five members of a syndicate who were involved in selling and renting walkie-talkies without permission of the regulatory body.

Two lower court judges yesterday offered an unconditional apology to the High Court for placing actress Pori Moni on remand for the second and third time in a narcotics case.

Police detained several BNP men from a doa mahfil programme held at the house of BNP leader Sajedul Islam Sumon, a victim of enforced disappearance in 2013, in Dhaka’s Shaheenbagh area.

An attack on four journalists in front of police sparked a six-hour street protest by their fellows at Rajshahi city’s Martyred Qamaruzzaman Square yesterday.

It can be known on November 14 whether two Japanese children -- Nakano Jasmine Malika and Nakano Laila Lina-- will remain with their father Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif or with their mother Japanese national Eriko Nakano.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against online casino “kingpin” Salim Prodhan in a case filed over amassing Tk 57.79 crore illegally and laundering about Tk 22 crore.

The High Court yesterday summarily rejected a writ petition that sought its directive on the authorities concerned to formulate a law for formation of the Election Commission.

The High Court yesterday sought a report from the government on the facilities provided to 1,987 death row convicts in the condemned cells at prisons across the country.

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested two members of a trafficking racket from the capital’s Karail slum area early yesterday.

The Criminal Investigation Department of police yesterday picked up six staffers of the health ministry for interrogation over 17 files missing from the ministry’s medical education division.

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted the probe report of a case filed over the death of actor Salman Shah.

The Supreme Court today directed four accused in a case filed over vandalism of puja mandaps in Cox’s Bazar to surrender to the lower court concerned in a week.

A Dhaka court today accepted a Police Bureau of Investigation probe report in the case over actor Salman Shah's death, where it is mentioned that the actor had died by suicide due to a family feud.

Members of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) in separate drives yesterday, arrested four persons in connection with two separate murders in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila and Akbar Shah area of the port city.

A woman was beaten to death and two others were injured after their relatives attacked them over a land dispute in Dhaka’s Badda area this afternoon.

Two lower court judges today offered unconditional apology to the High Court for placing Pori Moni on remand for the second and third time in a narcotics case.