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.

The body of a female tourist was recovered from a resort in Cox’s Bazar today.

The High Court today questioned the legality of offensive, fraudulent, confusing and misleading advertisements aimed at attracting consumers and creating an unfair competition in trade.

A Dhaka court today granted bail to Helena Jahangir, a businessperson turned politician, in narcotics and fraud cases filed with Gulshan and Pallabi police stations in the capital.

Officials of Chattogram Custom House seized huge numbers of foreign cigarettes worth Tk 19 lakh, imported under false declaration, at Shah Amanat International Airport in the port city today.

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

A retired school teacher was found dead at her house in Ghoshpara area of Rajshahi city this afternoon.

Detectives arrested seven members of a theft gang who used to break into prominent office buildings in Dhaka and loot cash and valuables.  

A Dhaka court today placed Mohammad Rassel, founder and CEO of Evaly, on a one-day remand in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk 35.85 lakh from a businessman.

Four people were sentenced to death, and one to life in prison, for killing Kushtia’s sub-registrar Nur Mohhamd (51) in 2018.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested two members of an “organised theft gang” yesterday on charge of stealing materials from the Metro Rail project in Dhaka.

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

A case has been filed against the mayor of Saidpur municipality, in Nilphamari, on charge of deception.

Four members of Sirajganj highway police, including the officer in charge (OC) of Hatikumrul Highway Police Station, have been closed to Bogura Highway Police on charge of negligence of duty and irregularities.

A court here yesterday sentenced a youth to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2017.

An eye-witness yesterday told a judge that Maj (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan was shot dead by now suspended police inspector Liaqat Ali.

A leader of Bangladesh Krishak League was shot dead in his house in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced Abdul Malek, a former driver of the Directorate General of Health Services, to 30 years’ rigorous imprisonment in an arms case.

Police have arrested a woman on charge of killing her husband in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area yesterday morning.