One of the accused in the case over rape of a private university student yesterday confessed to a Dhaka court that he had raped the victim at her friend’s house in the city’s Mohammadpur area.

Two men, including an assistant station master of Bangladesh Railway, were arrested between Wednesday night and yesterday morning in connection with separate rape incidents in Jashore and Rajshahi.

A court in Gazipur yesterday sent five youths to jail in connection with rape of an actress, while a man was sued for raping his sister-in-law in Narayanganj.

Journalists have curious minds which dig out information and if they are given the scope to publish that information, they will surely do it since there is no element of offence in it, the High Court observed yesterday.

Gold ornaments, weighing around 30 grams, have been stolen from the idol of goddess Kali at Sri Sri Ugra Tara temple and Shaktipith in Shikarpur village of Barishal’s Ujirpur upazila.

A Dinajpur court yesterday sent three men, accused of gang-raping a 10th-grader in a case filed by her father, to jail in the district’s Ghoraghat upazila.

Sand lifters beat up a journalist and tied him to a tree when he went to collect information on a story of sand and stone lifting by destroying the banks of the Jadukata in Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila yesterday.

Jeshore-6 MP Shaheen Chaklader is facing criticisms after a leaked phone conversation revealed that he asked a police officer to bomb a police station and frame a lawyer for it.

A physically challenged teenager was raped in a moving train allegedly by a staff of Bangladesh Railways in Moulvibazar’s Srimangal upazila Friday night.

Their target was businessmen and industrialists.

Police have recovered the body of a schoolboy from a ditch in Habiganj’s Shayestaganj upazila town on Tuesday evening.

Police yesterday arrested two men, including a union parishad member, for allegedly gang-raping a woman in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat on Monday.

The probe committee, formed by the High Court to investigate the incident of gang-rape on Murari Chand College campus in Sylhet, found negligence of two hostel superintendents, three day-guards, two night-guards.

Three police personnel, including a sub-inspector of Birganj Police Station, were injured as they came under attack by some land grabbers in the upazila yesterday.

A Rohingya man was killed in a “gunfight” between two groups of Rohingyas at a refugee camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A Jashore court sent a madrasa teacher to jail on charge of raping a seven-year-old girl in Bhaberber village in Benapole yesterday.

Police arrested a teenage boy and were looking for a young man on separate charges of rape in two districts yesterday.

A man was killed and eight others were injured in a clash between two rival groups in Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj upazila early yesterday.

A seven-year-old girl has allegedly been raped by a man in Bagerhat Sadar upazila.

A team of Rab and forest guards has arrested a poacher and recovered a tiger skin from his possession in Bagerhat’s Sharankhola upazila.