Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have arrested a man and seized 2kg crystal meth worth Tk 10 crore from the man’s possession in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar today.

Police today recovered the decomposing body of a woman from Purba Rampura’s Jaamtal area in Dhaka.

A seven-year-old girl was raped in Dhaka’s Wari area last night.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested 17 members of a multi-level marketing company -- like Destiny Group -- which apparently swindled crores of taka from two lakh people over the last two years.   

The High Court today issued an order of injunction, restraining e-commerce platform Evaly Limited from selling and transferring its assets till further order.

Three teachers, including the principal, of a madrasa were arrested last night for attempting to cover up the rape of a nine-year-old student and helping the accused teacher escape, at Singair in Manikganj.

Retired schoolteacher Maya Rani Ghose was strangled to death at her Rajshahi city home by one of her former students -- apparently for her gold jewellery.

Evaly chief executive officer Mohammad Rassel and chairman Shamima Nasrin were sued in another case today over embezzling Tk 85,000 through forgery.

The High Court today refused to grant bail to Moazzem Hossain, former officer-in-charge of Noakhali’s Sonagazi Police Station, who was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for filming Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s statement and circulating the clip without her consent.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has pressed charges against 11 people, including seven doctors and three contractors, over irregularities in the procurement of drugs for Azimpur Maternal and Child Health Training Institute.

Some locals allegedly beat up a teenager and shaved his head for “singing baul songs and lighting candles in the house” in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila.

Miscreants vandalised idols of Hindu gods and goddesses constructed for the upcoming Durga Puja in Kushtia town.

Police recovered the bodies of two siblings from the roof on their house in Sylhet city’s Majumdari area early yesterday.

A fisherman was beaten to death allegedly by policemen in Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila yesterday.

The High Court yesterday set Thursday for delivering its order on a petition filed seeking bail for Jhumon Das Apon, who has been languishing in jail for more than six months in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act (DSA) for criticising Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque on Facebook. 

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of offensive, fraudulent, confusing and misleading advertisements to attract consumers, fostering unfair trade practices.

A Jatiya Swechchhasebak Party leader has been arrested on charge of raping a teenager for months.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Mohammad Rassel, chief executive officer of Evaly, on a day’s remand in a case filed over embezzlement of about Tk 35.85 lakh from a businessman.

A court yesterday sentenced four people to death and one other to life term imprisonment in connection with a case for killing Kushtia Sadar Sub Registrar Nur Mohammad in 2018.

The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed the death sentence of two convicts for killing a child after abducting and raping her in Patuakhali in 2005.