Companiganj upazila parishad vice-chairman and his family members came under attack by some armed men yesterday afternoon.

The High Court has observed that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and others accused in the Gatco corruption case have violated laws.

Life imprisonment means 30 years in jail and a convict awarded such a sentence should get remission of seven and a half years as per the laws, according to a Supreme Court judgement.

Investigators have found the involvement of Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder and 74 others in embezzling about Tk 2,000 crore through forgery from two non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs).

Hashem Foods owner and another official were sued yesterday at the labour court for not informing the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) about the July 8 fire that killed 51 people and left several injured.

Sunamganj Police yesterday sent a rejoinder to our report “Jubo League man ‘tortured in custody’, published on the same day.

Police arrested an accused in a case filed over gang-rape with Ruhea Police Station in Thakurgaon’s Sadar upazila.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has been directed to investigate the Narayanganj Hashem Food and Beverage Factory fire case that killed 51 people, in an order issued by the Police Headquaters today.

A Dhaka court today rejected three bail petitions of Hefajat-e-Islam's former joint secretary general Maulana Mamunul Haque in three cases filed with Paltan Police Station.

The Supreme Court today suspended enrolment of Barrister Muhammad Ashraful Islam as a lawyer until further order for demanding resignation of the chief justice through a Facebook post.

The High Court refused to pass an order today on a writ petition filed by Dhaka Residential Model College seeking its directive on Prothom Alo to pay Tk 100 crore compensation to the college and the family of its student Naimul Abrar Rahat who was electrocuted to death in 2019.

A woman was raped in Balua Bazar bus stand area of Gaibandha Sadar upazila on Monday evening, said police, quoting the victim.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by the members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Mahishtuli Baroghari border in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila early yesterday.

A Rohingya man was beaten to death at Noyapara refugee camp in Teknaf upazila early yesterday over longstanding enmity with his rivals.

A homemaker has been strangled to death at Bilharibari village of the upazila on yesterday morning.

Rab arrested a man, who was sued under the Digital Security Act (DSA), in Sylhet early yesterday.

In a two-day mobile court drive, authorities unearthed a fake fertiliser and pesticide factory at Dhaka’s Keraniganj upazila, and seized counterfeit products worth Tk 150 crore.

Police in Sunamganj arrested two people, including a Jubo League leader, on Tuesday in a case filed over assaulting a sub-inspector of Shalla Police Station. 

Abdul Awal Khan, a trader from Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila, has been in jail and death row for the last 17 years for “killing his wife”. But he is soon to be a free man as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday acquitted him of the murder charge.

Four people have been arrested today in a case filed over a clash centering a land dispute that killed one person and injured ten others at Kismat Haripur village in Boda upazila of Panchagarh on Tuesday.