Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain today constituted 38 virtual benches of the High Court for hearing and disposing of cases only for tomorrow (Thursday) as the court will go on two-day weekly holiday on Friday followed by a two-week annual vacation.

The High Court today came down hard on business organisations including Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI) for not playing effective role over the incident of Narayanganj factory fire that killed 51 people and injured several.

A Narayanganj court today sent six accused, including owner of Hashem Foods factory in Narayanganj, to jail and granted bail to two accused after their four-day remand in a case filed in connection with 51 deaths in a fire at the factory.

A 45-year-old Islamic cleric was beaten to death at the Noyapara Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar today.

Police today have arrested three people accused of beating up journalist Selim Shamrat, at Hatibandha upazila in Lalmonirhat.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead allegedly by members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Maheshtala Baroghoria border area in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat today; another youth went missing after being shot.

Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a man, who claimed to be a journalist and was sued under the Digital Security Act by police, from Sylhet Sadar upazila.

Md Abdul Awal Khan, a businessman from Gazipur's Kaliganj upazila, has been in jail for the last 17 years for killing his wife. But soon, he will become a free man as his innocence was proven and Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today acquitted him of the murder charge.

Police recovered the body of a muezzin in Naogaon’s Sadar upazila around 10:30am on Tuesday.

A pregnant woman was raped by one of her neighbours in Savar’s Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital, on Sunday, police said, quoting the victim.

A 15-year-old girl was saved from child marriage in Nilphamari Sadar on Monday night after she contacted the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) over phone seeking help.

Police arrested four persons in Chattogram yesterday with three imported SS coil rolls which were removed on the way to Gazipur from Chattogram.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed two people on two-day remand each in a case filed against them over producing Tk 43 lakh in fake notes and circulating them in the market. 

Rab claimed to have arrested three drug dealers along with 975 grammes of crystal meth from Chattogram’s Patharghata area on Monday night.

Swapon Kumar Biswas, a private service holder, hit his wife Swapna Ghosh’s head at a stage of altercation, resulting in her death 15 years back.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today commuted the death sentence of Shahid Rari, who in 2008 threw his eight-year-old son Shakil in a canal in Patuakhali, causing the child’s death.

A 22-year-old man raped a pregnant woman at her house in Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on Sunday.

Rab arrested three alleged drug dealers along with 975 grams of crystal meth from Chattogram's Patharghata area last night.

The three suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operatives, who were arrested in Kolkata on Sunday, are part of a group of 15 men who entered West Bengal from Bangladesh earlier this year, Kolkata police said.

Police have arrested four people in two separate cases filed over raping a 19-year-old woman and assaulting her husband in Sadar upazila of Panchagarh.