Two alleged drug traders were killed in separate “shootouts” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Cox’s Bazar district early today.

A Dhaka tribunal today accepted charges pressed against cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and six others in a case filed under Digital Security Act allegedly for spreading rumours and carrying out anti-government activities.

Police on Friday arrested a man on charge of stabbing a teacher and student of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur.

Over a year ago, an assistant sub-inspector was suspended and attached to a police lines after a police investigation found him guilty of beating up a man and looting money from him.

They targeted skilled workers and lured them with lucrative jobs in the middle east. They then took the victims to Dubai on tourist visas and then to Iraq. The human traffickers then sold them for Tk 3-4 lakh.

A youth was arrested yesterday morning for raping his minor stepsister in Manikganj’s Saturia upazila.

A local leader of Awami League was sent to jail today in a case filed over attempting to rape a college student in Shivalaya upazila of Manikganj.

A youth was arrested this morning for raping his minor stepsister in Manikganj’s Saturia upazila.

Detectives in Narsingdi have arrested nine people involved in robbing gold shops at Nayarhat Bazar in Savar and Gopaldi Bazar in Narayanganj.

Body of a newborn baby boy was found in a bag near Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka last night.

In a rented flat in the capital’s Banani, Subrata Das, a friend of Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder, set up offices of two shell companies -- Wakama Limited and A&B Trading.

Fifteen years ago, he started working as an imam in a Pirojpur mosque. Around the same time, he joined a multi-level marketing (MLM) company with a salary of only Tk 900.

A suspected thief was beaten to death in the capital’s Sabujbagh area early yesterday.

Eminent citizens yesterday demanded immediate release of Jhumon Das Apon, who has been in jail for over five months after being accused in a Digital Security Act case filed over criticising Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque on Facebook in March.

Police have arrested the driver of a car which hit and killed a tenth grader in Dhaka's Mirpur ECB Chattar last night.

Shuvra Rani Ghosh, director of Wakama Limited, yesterday confessed to a Dhaka magistrate that she took a loan of about Tk 87.6 crore producing fake documents, court sources said.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Ehsan Group Chairman Ragib Hasan and his associates on charges of embezzling Tk 17,000 crore.

A man was beaten to death on suspicion that he is a thief in Dhaka’s Sabujbagh area early today.

Though the district administration and National River Conservation Commission have identified the company as the top river grabber in Munshiganj, the shipping ministry has been helping boost its business by awarding it shipbuilding contracts.

A journalist who wrote in favour of the Liberation War and against war criminals and war crimes, and suffered assaults because of it, was yesterday acquitted of charges in a case filed under the ICT Act in 2015 over a Facebook post.