Over 2,100 leaders and activists of BNP are so far arrested by law enforcers during the ongoing anti-militancy crackdown, the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed claims.

Parbatya Chhatragram Janasanghati Samity (PCJSS-Santu Larma) has been observing a 36-hour road and waterway blockade in Rangamati demanding reelection at a polling centre at Bhushanchhara union of Barkal upazila of the district.

High Court has stayed for three months the proceedings of 10 cases filed on charges of defamation and sedition against The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam.

Over 3,200 people are detained countrywide on the third day of the anti-militancy crackdown. Among them only 34 were suspected militants.

Seven persons have been detained on charge of fraud and doping people from the capital’s Mohammadpur area, police say.

Five female workers of a husking mill were killed and five injured as a truck hit a human hauler in Kushtia Sadar upazila.

Police detained an Islami Chhatra Shibir leader in connection with the killing of Nityaranjan Pande, volunteer of a Hindu Ashram, early yesterday.

Rejecting the bail petition of ruling Awami League lawmaker Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury, the High Court yesterday ordered him to surrender before the lower court concerned by June 20 in a case filed for assaulting an upazila election officer.

On a mundane Monday, the sun shone brightly in the front yard of the home-cum-factory of Iqbal Hossain and his wife but they were arranging batiks in neat folds, not caring about the heat.

Mohammedan Sporting Club and Bangladesh Sporting Club notch up big victories as the goalfest continues in the Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League.

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu was threatened with life yesterday. An unknown person sent him a shroud in a shopping bag, said a ministry official.

Police arrested 48 more suspected militants on the third day of their countrywide clampdown yesterday, taking the total number of captured “militants” to 85 since the special drive began following Sunday's murder of a top police official's wife by suspected militants in Chittagong.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that scrapped the rules allowing lawmakers to become governing body heads of private schools and colleges without elections.

Four luxury cars were seized from Dhaka’s Baridhara for tax dodging, customs intelligence say.

The government has suspended three privately-run medical colleges for breaching code of conduct.

A Dhaka court rejects a complaint brought against challengers of state religion Islam.

A Chittagong court places two suspects, arrested in connection with the murder of SP Babul Akter's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, on seven-day remand.

Police claimed that they arrested seven robbers after a “gunfight” with them in Gendaria area of Dhaka that left four people including a police official injured.

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu is anonymously threatened with death through a package containing a shroud, says a ministry official.

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