A Dhaka court yesterday sent Md Motaleb Hossain, a deputy assistant director of Directorate of Immigration and Passports, and his wife Israt Jahan to jail after rejecting their bail petitions in two graft cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

A journalist was arrested in Bogura early yesterday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act over a Facebook post on corruption allegations against a health official and his office assistant.

A former member of the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) was shot dead in Khagrachhari’s Panchhari upazila yesterday morning.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed a lawyer and her husband on a one-day remand each in a case filed over torturing their 12-year-old house help in the city’s Topkhana Road area.

Money counterfeiting gangs are active again ahead of Eid-ul-Azha as it is relatively easier for them to circulate fake notes in cattle markets, according to law enforcers.

The elder sister of the college student who was found dead in a Gulshan flat on April 26 has been terminated from her job at Padma Bank.

Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police today arrested eight members of a gang known to cut house grilles from Dhaka city and adjoining Keraniganj.

Police recovered the body of a teenage girl, who went missing two days before, from a waterbody in Kaliganj of Gazipur. 

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) said they have arrested a man in possession of 100 grams of crystal meth from Pirojpur’s Sadar upazila last night.

A journalist from Bogura was arrested today in a case filed under Digital Security Act for allegedly posting defamatory allegations of corruption against health officials and employees.

A Dhaka court today placed a female lawyer and her husband on a one-day remand each in a case filed over torturing their 12-year-old house help in the capital’s Topkhana Road area.

A defamation lawsuit of Tk 50 crore has been filed against popular actor Mosharraf Karim, private channel Boishakhi TV, and three others in Cumilla. 

A Dhaka court sent Md Motaleb Hossain, a deputy assistant director of Directorate of Immigration and Passports, and his wife Israt Jahan to jail today after rejecting their bail petitions in two graft cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

A Dhaka court on Thursday issued a travel ban on evaly.com.bd Chairman Shamima Nasrin and Managing Director Mohammad Russel as part of an investigation into the allegation that they embezzled around Tk 338.62 crore.

An alleged criminal was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Cox’s Bazar town early yesterday.

Twenty-one Rohingyas were detained in Moulvibazar yesterday morning after they entered Bangladesh from India illegally, police said.

Officials detained a man with 52 gold bars worth around Tk 4 crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday night.

A man was killed by one of his neighbours centring a feud allegedly over the ownership of a disputed land at Botla village in Madaripur’s Kalkini upazila yesterday.

Twenty Rohingyas who had fled Bhasan Char island in Noakhali were arrested from Jorarganj area of Mirsharai upazila of Chattogram today.

Police detained 21 Rohingyas from Moulvibazar’s Sadar upazila this morning, hours after they entered the country illegally from India last night.