Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit yesterday claimed to have arrested four members of the militant group “Neo-JMB” from the capital’s Ramna area.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sought cooperation from the US to increase efficiency of its investigation officers.

Detective Branch (DB) claims to have arrested a member of the transnational syndicate that involved in selling firearms into grey market after smuggling those from India.

The High Court issues a rule asking the government and the Election Commission (EC) to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to resume birth registration of people at four municipalities and 71 unions in Cox’s Bazar.

Rashed Khan Menon and Fazle Hossain Badsha have been elected president and general secretary of Workers Party of Bangladesh respectively.

A Dhaka Court places house help Surovi Akhter Nahida and four others on five-day remand each in Dhanmondi double murder case.

The inflation rate comes down slightly to 5.47 per cent in October from 5.54 per cent in September due to price fall in some non-food and food items except onion.

The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved six projects, including Tk 3,449.05 crore Physical Protection System (PPS) Project for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.

High Court (HC) has stayed bail of three accused in a case filed for forgery over the design of 23-storey FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani.

Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen AKM Mostafa Kamal Pasha submits a report to the High Court saying that there are only 10 physicians for the total 68 prisons across the country while 131 posts of doctors are now lying vacant.

The ninth edition of Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF), an internationally recognised literary festival, will be held at Bangla Academy in the capital from November 7 to 9.

Police yesterday said around a hundred Chhatra League men were found involved in the assault of Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute Principal Farid Uddin Ahmed, while 12 of them directly pushed him into the pond on Saturday.

Ban Terrorism, Not Student Politics

A parliamentary body yesterday recommended that the House adopt a motion declaring “planetary emergency”.

The High Court yesterday granted six-month bail to former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique in a corruption case, filed on charge of misusing power in selling a government property.

The High Court yesterday upheld a government decision to freeze bank accounts of SM Golam Kibria Shamim’s business organisation, GKB & Company (Pvt) Ltd.

Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday said the expectations from the country’s constitution will be fulfilled when there will be no exploitation and discrimination, and rule of law will be established.

The house help, who was arrested on Sunday night in the Dhanmondi double murder case, killed the elderly woman and another domestic worker in the house as the duo did not allow her to leave, police said.

Twenty-six trees in Sylhet’s Shahi Eidgah area were felled for “development work” recently, although no authority has taken responsibility for it.

Ten-year-old Iftakar Ahmed Wazid is still missing after a three-storey building collapsed in Narayanganj on Sunday afternoon.