A man was killed yesterday after a gas cylinder hit him at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda, Chattogram.

Gazaria upazila administration in Munshiganj has launched an investigation into the allegations against a company -- Three Angle Marine Ltd -- which has been occupying rivers, canals and land and was listed as an “illegal occupant” by the National River Conservation Commission (NRCC).

A man who used to earn Tk 130 per day as a computer operator at Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf Land Port in 2001 has amassed crores of taka illegally, Rab said after his arrest yesterday.

The High Court today directed the government to instruct the upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) to provide assistance and necessary advice to the respective Upazila Parishad chairpersons across the country in exercising their (Upazila Parishad chairpersons) executive powers.

A court in Joypurhat today sentenced a man to 60 years in jail for raping two minors in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat in 2017.

The High Court today directed the government to ban operations of all unregistered online news portals across the country, as they are allegedly running defamatory reports and photographs of different people.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has pressed charges against Sharful Hasan alias Mishu Hasan, a close associate of model and former TV presenter Faria Mahbub Piyasha, in an arms case filed with Bhatara Police Station.

Two people, including Masukur Rahman, former owner of e-commerce platform E-orange, were shown arrested today in a case filed with Gulshan Police Station for embezzling around Tk 88.98 lakh.

Mahbubul Haque Chisty, former chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee who is an accused in a case filed over money laundering, became ill at a courtroom in Dhaka this noon during arguments.

He took up a job as a computer operator, on contract basis, at Teknaf Land Port in Cox’s Bazar in 2001, with daily wage of only Tk 130.

A Dhaka court today fixed October 5 for delivering the judgment of a case filed against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others over laundering Tk 4 crore.

Members of Aviation Security (Avsec) recovered around 54.75 lakh Saudi riyals and 20,200 Singapore dollars from a box in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport last night.

A man was stabbed to death in Dhaka’s Kamalapur area last night.

A case was filed on Sunday night against yet to be identified staff members of Chandpur-bound launch Imam Hasan-5 for attempting to kill four children by throwing them into the Meghna river in Munshiganj on Saturday.

At least 20 families have been rendered homeless at Aria-Gohailbari village of Chartarapur union under Pabna Sadar upazila and several hundred have shifted their houses elsewhere as the erosion of Padma has taken a serious turn in the area because of illegal sand lifting by an influential quarter.

The death reference of the case in which six militants were sentenced to death for killing former USAID official Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in April 2016 has reached the High Court for the examination of the trial court verdict.

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl died Sunday at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital after fighting for her life for a month following alleged abuse by her stepmother in Gazipur.

A Pirojpur court yesterday granted a seven-day remand for Ehsan Group Chairman Ragib Ahsan and his three brothers in a money embezzlement case.  

Police have arrested a man and are looking to nab three others in a case filed over raping a woman at Dharmapur union of Noakhali Sadar upazila on Sunday.

Rab members arrested 11 members of an organised theft gang on charge of stealing goods from the Metro Rail project in Dhaka.