The police headquarters has formed a three-member probe body to investigate Additional Deputy Commissioner (DB Gulshan Division) Golam Saklain’s alleged unprofessional conduct with actress Pori Moni.

India’s counterterrorism group National Investigation Agency (NIA) said it has carried out searches in Bengaluru at the premises linked to a suspect who is involved in making fake identity documents for Bangladeshi human traffickers.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard today detained 13 Indian fishermen for illegally entering Bangladeshi waters in the Bay of Bengal.

A virtual court in Dhaka will decide, on August 17, whether to accept the probe report of the case filed over abetting the suicide of a college student.

Customs Intelligence officials detained a man with foreign currencies equivalent to Tk 22.55 lakh at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early today.

Counterterrorism officials arrested three persons on charge of swindling Tk 18 lakh, through forging digital voucher of Shwapno super shop.

Influential people from different professions were in close contact with actor Pori Moni and some of the others arrested during recent drives, investigators said today.

The Supreme Court today extended -- till September 2 -- its earlier order that suspended the enrolment of Barrister Muhammad Ashraful Islam as a lawyer for demanding resignation of the chief justice through a Facebook post on July 14.

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) handed over five Bangladeshis, detained while entering Bangladesh illegally, to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) last night.

At least half a dozen people, including high officials of two private banks, are on the list of those who had “close contact” with film actor Pori Moni, now behind bars in a narcotics case.

Four killings in 10 days -- first two on April 11 and then again on April 20.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Rab in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel yesterday arrested four members of a teen gang from the capital’s Mohammadpur area.

A Chhatra League leader of Jahangirnagar University allegedly fired several rounds of bullets targeting a college teacher, as he protested his peddling drugs in the area. Meanwhile, the teacher was able to save himself and one of the bullets hit an associate of that BCL leader.

Noted rights activist Sultana Kamal yesterday at a webinar said indigenous people are not only losing their homesteads, gardens, trees, forestlands and lakes, but their crematoriums are also being grabbed by the state or people patronised by the state.

A housewife, who was set afire by her husband allegedly over a family feud in Joypurhat’s Khetlal upazila, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Friday after 11 days of the brutal incident.

Locals in Joynagar area of Manikganj municipality are speculating that the unusual erosion of hundreds of bighas of croplands in the area along the Kaliganga river is a result of illegal and indiscriminate dredging in the river by unscrupulous sand traders.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion today arrested three people with elephant ivory at Chandgaon area of Chattogram city.

Police arrested Bashirur Rahman Khan Chowdhury, an accused in four cases and president of Natore district unit of Jubo League, hours after The Daily Star ran a report “Warranted accused seen with Natore MP Shimul in public” this morning.

Calcutta High Court has ordered to send back a Bangladeshi woman by air on her request as she is languishing in a correctional facility on completion of her detention period.