A union parishad chairman was sued over the rape of a woman in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila on Friday whereas police arrested a youth on charge of raping a minor girl in Rajshahi’s Bagmara upazila on Friday night.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested seven accused in a case filed for killing Awami League leader Mominur Islam Rocky in Bogura.

Thirty-three eminent citizens have condemned and protested the incident of land-grabbing taking place at the 200-year-old Rakhine temple in Patuakhali’s Kuakata.

A freedom fighter was killed and four of his other family members were injured in an attack by his rivals allegedly over a disputed land in Ujirpur upazila.

An elderly man was killed by his son following an altercation allegedly over a trifling matter in Tangail Sadar upazila yesterday.

Police detained film actress Eka from her house in Dhaka’s Hatirjheel area on charge of torturing her house help.

A Dhaka court today sent an accused, Babu Hasan, to jail in a case filed over the killing of trader Shahinuddin in front of his seven-year-old son in Dhaka’s Pallabi area on May 16.

Two petitions were submitted to a Dhaka court today for showing Helena Jahangir, a businessperson turned politician, arrested in two other cases filed with Gulshan and Pallabi police stations.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-12) today arrested seven men, including prime accused Gausul Azam, in a case filed over murder of Bogura Awami League leader Mominur Islam Rocky.

An elderly man was killed by his son, following an altercation, in Tangail Sadar upazila.

A total of 1,51,146 under-trial prisoners got released from jails across the country after securing bail from virtual courts in two phases of 112 working days.

A rape case has been filed against a union parishad chairman from Bogura’s Sherpur upazila.

Another case was filed against Helena Jahangir, a businessperson turned politician recently sacked from the position of member of an Awami League subcommittee, for operating an IPTV channel illegally.

The trial proceed-ings in the Maj (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan murder case remain halted due to the pandemic-induced lockdown.

A Jamalpur court yesterday sent three men to jail for their alleged involvement in the rape of a schoolgirl in the district’s Bakshiganj upazila on Thursday.

A mobile court of Dhaka South City Corporation yesterday fined a bakery in Old Dhaka Tk 50,000 after finding Aedes mosquito larvae at the site.

Helena Jahangir, who was recently sacked as member of an Awami League subcommittee, was “spreading propaganda and misleading information” on digital platforms to defame important personalities and create panic and confusion in the public mind, Rab said yesterday.

A Dhaka court today placed Helena Jahangir, a businessperson-turned-politician, on a three-day remand in connection with a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Ten Bangladeshi men and women returned to the country through the Benapole check-post last night after serving one and a half to three years in jail for entering India illegally.

Police recently submitted a probe report without conducting a DNA test of the lone accused in the case filed over abetting the death by suicide of a college student, even though male DNA was found on the victim’s body.