A Dhaka court today granted bail to model Faria Mahbub Piyasha in two narcotics cases filed with Bhatara and Khilkhet police stations.

At least seven people suffered bullet wounds during a clash between local farmers and SS Dredger, over the latter’s equipment taking up the farmers’ land from Sangu river this morning at Tulatoli village under Charati union of Chattogram’s Satkania upazila.

Terming Rohingya leader Mohibullah’s murder as “well-planned”, investigators have said his popularity in the Rohingya refugee community in Cox’s Bazar is the motive behind the grisly murder.

Police today recovered the body of a man -- hanging from an electric pole -- in Chattogram city’s Jalalabad area.

A man was killed in a shootout in Cox’s Bazar between members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and yaba traders last night.

A Sylhet court today accepted charge-sheet against five police personnel and a journalist in connection with the custodial death of Rayhan Ahmed.

The Quick Response and Report (QRR) programme of Pirojpur police was inaugurated today to provide services to the general public as quickly as possible

A Dhaka court today ordered cricketer Nasir Hossain, his wife Tamima Sultana Tammi and her mother Sumi Akhter to appear before it on October 31 after Police Bureau of Investigation submitted a report terming the couple’s marriage “illegal”.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today pressed charges against former BNP lawmaker Mosaddek Ali Falu and two others in a case filed for siphoning off Tk 183.92 crore to Dubai.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today pressed charges against six people, including former director general of Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS) Abul Kalam Azad in the Regent Hospital scam.

The High Court today sought documents to examine whether a board of directors can be formed to run Evaly Limited properly.

A Dhaka court today accepted charges against 10 people, including Khandaker Mohtesam Hossain Babar, brother of former Awami League minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, in a money laundering case worth Tk 2,000 crore.

Amnesty International has called upon Bangladesh to expedite the investigation in the murder of leading Rohingya activist Mohibullah.

Members of Police Bureau of Investigation have rescued a newborn and arrested three persons on charges of stealing the baby from a clinic in Sharsha upazila of Jashore.

A four-and-a-half-year-old child was among three girls raped in Jashore, Shariatpur and Thakurgaon. Police has so far arrested two of the accused in cases filed over the rapes.

Following the shooting to death of Rohingya rights activist and leader Mohibullah last night, Human Rights Watch issued a statement lamenting the loss of a defender of a people “who had already suffered unimaginable loss and pain when they arrived as refugees in Bangladesh”.

Unidentified criminals shot Rohingya rights activist and leader Mohibullah dead at his office in Kutupalong camp under Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia upazila last night.

Former officer-in-charge (OC) of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das implicated a local journalist in six criminal cases and brutally tortured him in police custody for writing on Pradeep’s misdeeds, the victim testified before a court yesterday.

Prokash Kumar Das, medical technologist (lab) of Khulna General Hospital, has allegedly embezzled about Tk 2.58 crore collected on Covid testing fee.

Nine years after the mindless communal attacks on the Buddhist community in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar, the victims are yet to get justice as no significant progress has been made in the proceedings of cases.