A Barisal court has handed down death penalty to a man convicted of killing a first year Barisal University student back in 2013.

Four of a family including two children are killed over what police suspect family feud in Bandarban Sadar upazila.

The country had become a “soft” state revealing itself to be completely incapable of fighting the forces of violence and terror. True, the patronage of criminals by politicians in the past and a demoralised police force pushed up the crime graph in the country.

THE horrific murder of a woman and her uncle-in-law inside her Pallabi apartment exemplifies how vulnerable ordinary citizens have become even in their own home.

Unknown assailants stab to death a housewife at the residence of her husband’s first wife in Panchlaish area of Chittagong city.

A woman and her daughter are murdered inside their house and her son gravely injured in Gazipur, attacked by a group of unknown assailants.

A couple was killed allegedly by their son-in-law in Chandpur Sadar upazila.

A youth pushes his pregnant girlfriend off a cliff near the Nahargarh fort after crushing her face with a stone and then flees, assuming her to be dead.

A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been shot dead in the capital Kiev.

The apex court scraps the High Court bail granted to Mahtab Uddin Minar, prime accused in Fulgazi’s Ekramul Haque murder case.

Detectives submit charge sheet of sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case against 35 naming Nur Hossain as the prime accused.

IN a macabre attack with a hammer, a former college teacher was murdered in her apartment in the capital on Monday.

Police recover throat slit bodies of mother and daughter at their Uttar Jatrabari residence in Dhaka.

A US drone strike kills at least nine Pakistani militants in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province

WE are shocked and horrified at the kidnap and murder of a nine-year-old boy for ransom by a member of a law enforcement agency in Sylhet.

US tycoon Robert Durst is arrested on a murder charge ahead of the finale of a TV show investigating the murder of Susan Berman

The High Court today granted bail to Jannati Hossain, a young entrepreneur detained in a murder case after her business partner Mostamsir Ashraf died in a car crash.

Zaur Dadayev, one of two suspects charged with the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, confessed under duress, says a member of Russia's Human Rights Council

Rafida Ahmed Bonya, wife of murdered blogger-writer Avijit Roy, says she did not get proper cooperation from law enforcers when they came under attack on February 26.

Terming Khaleda Zia as the leader of the militants, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the BNP chief would have to face punishment for getting people killing in petrol bombs attacks.