Unknown assailants have stabbed dead a muezzin inside a mosque in Old Dhaka’s Islampur area. Police recovered the body from the stairs of the mosque. However, any motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained.

Criminal Investigation Department of police recorded statements from slain Sohagi Jahan Tonu’s parents in connection with her murder.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Mizanur Rahman says the cleaning of the crime scene in the Sohagi Jahan Tonu murder case may mislead the trial process.

With no visible progress in the investigation, protests continued across the country yesterday, demanding justice for Sohagi Jahan Tonu who was killed inside Comilla Cantonment area on March 20.

Detective Branch (DB) of police investigates Comilla Victoria college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu murder case.

Islamic State claimed responsibility of yesterday’s murder of a Christian convert in Kurigram, “terror monitoring” body SITE Intel Group says.

Masked miscreants brandish guns and pick up an independent chairman candidate of the Union Parishad polls from his house before killing him in Bandarban’s Ruma upazila.

Unidentified assailants have killed a madrasa student by slitting his throat in Kalai upazila of Joypurhat.

A Shia community preacher has been stabbed to death in Jhenidah’s Kaliganj upazila. Islamic State has allegedly claimed responsibility of the killing.

The High Court has rejected a plea filed by sacked Rab official Lt Col (retd) Tareque Sayeed Mohammad for scrapping the trial against him in Narayanganj seven-murder case.

Unidentified miscreants shoot dead a youth to snatch Tk 2.9 lakh from his possession in broad daylight at Hazipara in capital Dhaka.

Supreme Court upholds death for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali in a war crimes case. Five-member bench of Appellate Division acquits the war criminal of a death penalty and two other jail terms.

All eyes are on the Supreme Court, which is set to deliver the verdict tomorrow on the appeal filed by war criminal Mir Quasem Ali challenging his death penalty amid comments from different persons including two ministers on the chief justice.

Detectives have been tasked with the probe into the death of two children - 14-year-old Nusrat Aman Aroni and her six-year-old brother Alvi Aman - in Dhaka’s Banasree area. According to law enforcers, they were killed by their mother Mahfuza Malek Jasmine.

At least 262 incidents of repression on minorities take place across the country last year affecting 1,562 families, according to a report of Bangladesh Hindu- Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad.

Police recover a body of a indigenous woman in Gulshan of Dhaka. The body of the woman, aged around 28, is found with injury marks on her chest, neck and other parts, cops say.

Two suspects of a double-murder were killed and three others injured in a "gunfight" with police in Narsingdi Sadar upazila early yesterday, hours after the murder.

Rab is bringing the parents and an aunt of two minor siblings -- who, autopsy suggests, might have been murdered -- to Dhaka from Jamalpur. Meanwhile, no case has been filed yet over the incident. Police say they will lodge a case if the family doesn’t do so.

The prime suspect in a case filed over killing of two children in Comilla has been arrested from Dhaka.

Police arrest another person for his alleged link to the killing of four schoolboys, who had gone missing from Sundrateki village in Bahubal upazila on February 12.