Mufti Amir Hamza, a prominent speaker on Islam, was arrested yesterday evening in connection with “misinterpreting the religion and spreading extremism at waz mahfils (religious programmes)”.

Sumon Bepari, the prime accused, today confessed to a magistrate about his involvement in killing trader Shahinuddin in Dhaka’s Pallabi area on May 16.

The body of a Dhaka University student, who had been missing for around a week, was found at the Shaheed Minar on Saturday and was later identified at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue yesterday evening.

PBI officials probing the Mitu murder case will send the two books, seized from her husband and ex-police official Babul Akter as “evidence of his extramarital affairs”, to the CID for forensic examination.

Another accused in Shahinuddin murder case was killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in the capital’s Pallabi area early yesterday.

The body of Hafizur Rahman, a student of Dhaka University who was missing for the last seven days, was found at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue today.

Another accused in a case filled following the murder of trader Shahinuddin was killed in a "gunfight" with detectives in Dhaka's Pallabi area early today.

The body of a man was recovered from a jute field in Budhar Banshertal area of Mahendranagar union in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila.

Two accused confessed to a magistrate yesterday that they were directly involved with the killing of a trader in front of his seven-year-old son in Dhaka's Pallabi area on May 16.

Chattogram police arrested three -- Monir Hossain (40), his wife Khuku Moni (28) and a CNG driver Mahfuz -- on May 21 for stealing Tk 27 lakh.

A local journalist was arrested yesterday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act over publication of a report against a former Awami League MP.

An 85-year-old woman was burnt to death by alleged killers of her son at Jamrildanga village of Kalia upazila in Narail early today.

Police have arrested two teenagers for allegedly raping a 12-year-old from Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj.

Police on Thursday night arrested an Imam of a local mosque in Narail’s Kalia upazila on charge of raping a minor girl.

Police arrested a man in a case filed over attempting to rape an 18-year-old girl in Keshabpur upazila of Jashore last night.

One of the accused in the case filed for the murder of Pallabi trader Shahinuddin at his Kalabagan office, was killed in an alleged gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion in Pallabi Eastern Housing area in Dhaka early today.

Police have arrested an imam of a mosque on charges of raping a six-year-old child at Kalia upazila of Narail.

Malaysian police are looking for a suspect, said to have a scar on his left arm, whom they believe is linked to the murder of a Bangladeshi man in Klang.

A Hefajat-e-Islam activist died at a hospital in the capital yesterday while undergoing treatment in judicial custody.

Rab arrested a former lawmaker in connection with stabbing a trader to death in front of his son in Dhaka’s Pallabi area on Sunday.