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

Police today recovered the body of a Chinese worker from a ditch at SS Power Plant, in Gandamara union under Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram.

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

The Supreme Court today upheld the High Court orders that stayed the government decision for cancelling freedom fighter status of 196 retired members of army, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), and also directed the government to give them benefits as freedom fighters.

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

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police have arrested two persons in a case filed over assaulting DB officials and helping an arrested drug trader escape at Naogaon’s Manda upazila yesterday afternoon.

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has asked banks to submit details of accounts of five people, including actor Pori Moni and businessperson-turned-politician Helena Jahangir, who have recently been arrested on various grounds.

A Feni court yesterday placed DB Inspector Saiful Islam on a four-day remand and five other officials on a three-day remand in a case filed in connection with robbing a gold trader of 20 bars.

The High Court yesterday issued a contempt of court rule against the health secretary, director generals of the health directorate and drug administration, and two others on charge of ignoring its directives to stop production of substandard antibiotics.

Unidentified criminals damaged an idol of Hindu Goddess Kali at a temple in Sherpur upazila yesterday.

Police claimed to have arrested an active member of militant group “Neo JMB” from the capital on Tuesday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Tuesday arrested a young man from Gaibandha in connection with a case for raping a minor girl in Rangpur’s Pirgachha upazila.

His plan was to make drones and carry out attacks after attaching explosives with them.

The participants of a human chain in Khulna yesterday protested the recent attack on Hindus, their houses and places of worship in the district.

Crackdowns on militant hideouts broke down JMB’s networks time and again since its emergence in Bangladesh, but the drives could hardly stop the banned outfit’s endeavour to carry through explosive know-how.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been tasked to investigate six more cases filed against sacked Awami League leader Helena Jahangir, film producer Nazrul Islam Raz, models and their associates.

Police recovered the bodies of a couple from a room of a rented house in Ashulia, Savar.

Eleven people, including Channel i Managing Director Faridur Reza Sagar and its spokesperson Shykh Seraj, were sued under the Persons with Disabilities Rights and Protection Act today.

The High Court in the full text of a verdict has observed that allegation against former BNP minister Mirza Abbas of misappropriation regarding leasing out a government land has been disclosed primarily, and he cannot avoid the responsibility.

Anti-terrorism unit of police claimed to have arrested four members of the banned militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team, also known as Ansar al Islam, from Dhaka’s Rayerbagh area early this morning.