Despite a strong vigil by law enforcers for ensuring peaceful Durga Puja celebrations, zealots beat and stabbed a man to death at a temple in Noakhali as idols, houses and shops of the Hindu community came under attack in different places yesterday.

The bodies of a woman and her two children were recovered from their flat on the fourth floor of a building in Muradpur area of Chattogram city yesterday morning.

Four of a family were killed and several others injured as supporters of two UP member hopefuls in the Jagdal Union Parishad elections clashed in Magura Sadar upazila yesterday.

Despite a strong vigil by law enforcers for ensuring peaceful Durga Puja celebrations, zealots beat and stabbed a man to death at a temple in Noakhali as idols and businesses of the Hindu community came under attack in a few districts today.

The bodies of a woman and her two children were recovered from their flat on the fourth floor of a building in Muradpur area of Chattogram city this morning.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion have recovered 18 bombs next to a temple in Khulna’s Rupsha upazila.

The forest department in a drive seized at least 25 venomous snakes from the house of a snake charmer in Rangabali upazila on Wednesday.

Almost 100 individuals were arrested in different districts in connection with the violence at several places following reports that “the Holy Quran was demeaned” in Cumilla.

In face of criticisms, the Awami League has cancelled nomination of two Brahmanbaria leaders -- charged by police with vandalising and attacking Hindu houses and temples in Nasirnagar five years ago -- for chairman posts in union parishad polls to be held on November 11.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against the owner of a company for illegally extracting stones worth Tk 252.75 crore from the Shah Arefin Tila in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila.

Taslima Nasrin and two others have been charged in a case filed under Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act by the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit today.

At least 2,000 unnamed people were sued in two cases filed over the attacks on puja mandaps and the police-mob clashes in Chandpur’s Hajiganj upazila last night following the reported incident of “demeaning the Holy Quran” in Cumilla.

At least 41 persons have been arrested in four cases filed over “demeaning the Holy Quran” in Cumilla, said Superintendent of Police Faruk Ahmed today.

Police recovered bodies of a couple and their son from a house in Jorarganj union, under Chattogram’s Mirsarai upazila early today.

A man was arrested while trying to enter the restricted area of Padma Bridge in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj.

Detectives arrested AHM Fuad, assistant personal secretary of former Awami League minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, in a murder case from the capital’s Bashundhara area early yesterday.

Three people were killed and many others injured yesterday as mob and police clashed in Chandpur’s Hajiganj upazila while violence erupted in several districts following reports of “demeaning the Holy Quran” in Cumilla.

Facebook has developed a secret blacklist of over 4,000 individuals and organisations across the world that it considers “dangerous” as a part of its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations (DIO) policy, according to internal Facebook documents.

Driven by his desire to become rich, Saiful Islam Tutul, a grocer in a small village of Meherpur’s Gangni, moved to the capital around nine years ago.  

Police on Tuesday night arrested a schoolteacher in connection with a case for assaulting his father in Chatmohar upazila of the district earlier in the day.