The investigation officer (IO) of police official’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case has been changed. Kamruzzaman, an assistant commissioner of Detective Branch (DB), has been given charge of the case in place of DB Inspector Rakibuddin.

A newly-elected chairman in Joypurhat Sadar upazila, who was stabbed and shot by unknown criminals six days ago, succumbed to his injuries.

A teenage boy is shot dead and two others are injured in a clash between supporters of an elected councillor and a defeated candidate of Munshiganj municipality elections.

Police rescued an abducted housewife from a house in Muktagachha municipality of the district on Friday, five days after her abduction

A youth was killed and at least 20 others were injured during a post-polls clash between the supporters of the elected union parishad (UP)

Law enforcers recovered the bodies of a murdered man and another missing youth from Naogaon and Kishoreganj districts in the last

A union parishad member allegedly killed by his rivals in Bakerganj upazila of Barisal.

In a mysterious statement, Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh chapter of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, condemns the murder of Mitu, wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, says SITE Intelligence Group. The Daily Star could not verify the claim.

Cops claim to have detained a man seen in CCTV footage to be talking on mobile phone and following Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, before her murder in Chittagong city on June 5.

Police claimed to have detained 37 militants and 3155 others in different cases across the country during the last 24 hours till this morning, on the second day of the nationwide crackdown on militants in the wake of recent killings.

Islamic State (IS) claims the responsibility for the killing of a volunteer of a Hindu monastery in Pabna Sadar upazila, according to a report of US-based SITE Intelligence Group.

Alleged robber is killed in a “gunfight” between his cohorts and police in Lohagara upazila of Narail.

A youth is held with knives from a demonstration in Chittagong arranged for the militancy-fighting slain police official’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu. The organisers catch Md Ibrahim, 20, around 4:00pm for his suspicious movement, our local correspondent reports.

An alleged member of the killing squad of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has been arrested from Baganbari area in Sherpur municipality of Bogra.

An activist of Jubo League, the youth wing of ruling Awami League, was stabbed to death over previous enmity at Library Bazar in Pabna town.

An alleged member of outlawed Purba Bangla Communist Party was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with law enforcers in Tala upazila of Satkhira.

Unidentified assailants hack dead a worker of a Hindu ashram (monastery) in Pabna in a style similar to the recent suspected militant killings. Nitya Ranjan Pande, 60, was a saint of Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra Satsanga Ashram at Hemayetpur in Pabna Sadar upazila.

Members of Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) seized a covered van carrying Indian clothes and fabrics from Amrakhali check post area in

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged robber with eight guns and 15 bullets from Moheshkhali upazila in the district

A mobile court here on Wednesday sentenced a drug peddler to six months' imprisonment. The convict is Naim Mia, 23, son of Fazar Ali