The High Court today issued an injunction restraining the authorities concerned of the government from illegal sand-filling in Kohelia River in Cox's Bazar for the next three months.

Though the law ministry has opined for six months’ further extension of suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence, Law Minister Anisul Huq today again said she has to return to jail for release and permission to go abroad for treatment.

Police recovered the body of 10-year-old madrasa student from a house in Ashulia of Savar today, three days after he went missing.

Md Rezaul Chowdhury, a social welfare activist in Natore, submitted an application to the High Court today, saying that Awami League lawmaker Shafiul Islam Shimul and his wife Shamima Sultana Jannati have purchased property, including a luxurious residence, in Canada.

Two alleged drug traders were killed in separate “shootouts” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Cox’s Bazar district early today.

A Dhaka tribunal today accepted charges pressed against cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and six others in a case filed under Digital Security Act allegedly for spreading rumours and carrying out anti-government activities.

Police on Friday arrested a man on charge of stabbing a teacher and student of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur.

Over a year ago, an assistant sub-inspector was suspended and attached to a police lines after a police investigation found him guilty of beating up a man and looting money from him.

They targeted skilled workers and lured them with lucrative jobs in the middle east. They then took the victims to Dubai on tourist visas and then to Iraq. The human traffickers then sold them for Tk 3-4 lakh.

A youth was arrested yesterday morning for raping his minor stepsister in Manikganj’s Saturia upazila.

A local leader of Awami League was sent to jail today in a case filed over attempting to rape a college student in Shivalaya upazila of Manikganj.

A youth was arrested this morning for raping his minor stepsister in Manikganj’s Saturia upazila.

Detectives in Narsingdi have arrested nine people involved in robbing gold shops at Nayarhat Bazar in Savar and Gopaldi Bazar in Narayanganj.

Body of a newborn baby boy was found in a bag near Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka last night.

In a rented flat in the capital’s Banani, Subrata Das, a friend of Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder, set up offices of two shell companies -- Wakama Limited and A&B Trading.

Fifteen years ago, he started working as an imam in a Pirojpur mosque. Around the same time, he joined a multi-level marketing (MLM) company with a salary of only Tk 900.

A suspected thief was beaten to death in the capital’s Sabujbagh area early yesterday.

Eminent citizens yesterday demanded immediate release of Jhumon Das Apon, who has been in jail for over five months after being accused in a Digital Security Act case filed over criticising Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque on Facebook in March.

Police have arrested the driver of a car which hit and killed a tenth grader in Dhaka's Mirpur ECB Chattar last night.

Shuvra Rani Ghosh, director of Wakama Limited, yesterday confessed to a Dhaka magistrate that she took a loan of about Tk 87.6 crore producing fake documents, court sources said.