A Panchagarh court has ordered the Officer-in-Charge of Debiganj Police Station to thoroughly investigate a couple's sufferings after they refused to follow a hilla marriage fatwa imposed by local influential people.

Rab today arrested six alleged members of a garment cargo robbery gang and recovered goods worth around Tk 6 crore from Narayanganj’s Bandar area.

Detectives have pressed charges against Uttara Club Limited's former president Nasir Uddin Mahmud and his associate Tuhin Siddique Omi in a case filed with Airport Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act.

Police are on high alert ahead of National Mourning Day programmes in Dhanmondi tomorrow, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam said today.

After the end of a total of six days in remand, actor Pori Moni was taken to Kashimpur Jail yesterday evening.

An 11-year-old girl has reportedly been raped by her neighbour in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria.

Actress Pori Moni, model Mariam Akhter Mou, director Nazrul Islam Raz and two others were sent to jail yesterday in three cases filed with Banani and Mohammadpur police stations under the Narcotics Control Act.

A Thakurgaon court today placed on remand the son of a former kindergarten teacher who was found dead near her house on July 8, and placed another accused in the case to jail.

Police in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba upazila are looking to arrest a man in connection with a case filed over raping an 11-year-old girl.

Film actress Pori Moni, model Mariam Akhter Mou and three others were sent to jail today on completion of remands in three separate cases filed with Banani and Mohammadpur police stations under the Narcotics Control Act.

A Dhaka court yesterday cleared Ron Haque Sikder, managing director of Sikder Group, and his brother, of the charges of abducting, torturing, and opening fire on two Exim Bank officials.

Indian State Minister and Lok Sabha MP Shantanu Thakur has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention to safeguard the “Matua Hindu community members whose shrines and properties have been attacked in Bangladesh”.

Police recovered the body of a Chinese citizen in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila yesterday, a day after he went missing from his workplace SS Power Plant.

The IS-inspired militant outfit Neo JMB was planning to make chloroform bombs for carrying out attacks in buses, classrooms, and at public places, claimed Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) officials.

A female police inspector yesterday filed a case against a superintendent of police, accusing him of raping her several times, including four occasions after the accused promised to marry the complainant.

A Chattogram court yesterday placed two persons on one-day remand each in a case filed in connection with getting Covid-19 vaccine at home in Chattogram city.

The High Court on Wednesday refused to grant bail to “Casino Brothers “ -- Enamul Haque Enu and Rupon Bhuiyan -- in two money laundering cases involving Tk 2.17 crore. 

Police yesterday detained a man and his son over beating up two of their relatives after tying them up to a pipe at their house in Shadapur area of Savar.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed a High Court order that granted six weeks’ bail to Mortuza Raihan Chowdhury, an accused in a case filed over the rape and murder of a private university student in the capital, in January this year.

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested two people in a case for assaulting DB officials and helping an arrested drug trader escape in Naogaon’s Manda upazila.