Nasim Real Estate owner Imam Hossain Nasim embezzled more than Tk 300 crore from unsuspecting people, Rab said today.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has told a German magazine he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind his suspected poisoning, adding that he is not afraid and would return to Russia to resume campaigning.

The Supreme Court today cleared the way for the government to evict unauthorised business structures from Sugandhya Point at Kalatali area on Cox's Bazar sea beach.

Human Rights Watch has called for Bangladesh government to allow a visit by the UN to Bhashan Char before any Rohingya relocation.

Amnesty International has called for the Bangladesh authorities to immediately release at least 370 migrant workers who were arbitrarily detained between July and September following their return to the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has appreciated China as one of the most valued partners of Bangladesh for its socio-economic development and the continued Chinese support to Bangladesh during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been arrested by the police on Thursday and taken to the police station while they were on their way to Hathras to meet the family of a gang rape victim.

The Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board has decided to conduct online classes for class XI students under academic year 2020-21 from October 4.

At least 975 people were raped across the country in the last nine months from January, rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra said in a report today.

A Supreme Court lawyer has sent a legal notice to the government, requesting it to form a high powered inquiry committee in three days to probe the “violation of fundamental rights of children” in the three child development centres of the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government has given special focus on establishing air connectivity with different countries.

Twenty-one people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The closure of all educational institutions in the country due to the Covid-19 outbreak has been extended till October 31.

Leading Indian newspapers editorially commented on the special court’s acquittal of all the 32 accused in Babri Mosque demolition case, saying “it raises more questions than answers” and questions the quality of evidence put forward by the prosecution agency the Central Bureau of Investigation.

The High Court today directed Green Line Paribahan to pay Tk 20 lakh more in compensation in three months to Russel Sarker, who lost his leg after a bus of the company ran him over in 2018.

A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of the charges against "Casino Brothers"-- Enamul Haque Enu and Rupon Bhuiyan -- and nine others in three cases filed over laundering Tk 3.55 crore.

Rab claimed to have arrested the owner of Nasim Real Estate from Dhaka’s Rupnagar area early today.

Officials of Chattogram Custom House recovered 82 gold bars -- weighing 9.5kg -- from the possession of a Dubai-returnee at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram.

Former Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wahida Khanam, who was undergoing treatment at National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital after a brutal attack at her official residence in Dinajpur, has been released from the hospital this noon.

Hundreds of migrants hoping to reach the European Union are sheltering in forests and ruined former factory buildings near Bosnia's border with Croatia, with the cold setting in and conditions becoming more miserable.