Twenty years on from the 2001 Ramna Batamul bomb blasts which killed ten people at Pahela Baishakh celebrations, justice is yet to be delivered to the family members of the victims as the appeals and death reference in connection with the carnage case are still pending with the High Court.

Police have arrested eight Jamaat-e-Islam activists from a secret meeting in Meherpur today. Of them, seven were female.

A teenager died and a juvenile was injured in an attack by members of a rival teen gang in Gazipur city last night.

A Dhaka court today placed Hefajat-e-Islam organising secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi on a seven-day remand in connection with the mayhem in the capital in May, 2013.

Six businessmen were arrested in a case filed in connection with the attack on Lalmonirhat’s Patgram Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Executive Magistrate of a mobile court Ram Krishna Barman during a drive on April 7.

Four members of Hefajat-e-Islam were placed on remand in Narayanganj today, a day after their arrest in two cases filed over the mayhem centering the "confinement" of Hefajat's Joint General Secretary Mamunul Haque at a resort in Sonargaon upazila of the district.

A woman was killed and two others were injured in a gun attack in Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today.

Police held a man on charges of sexually assaulting three children in Lalmonirhat yesterday.

The incident of abducting a man and demanding ransom for his release in the capital recently was pre-planned by the arrested elite force members, investigators said.

Jama’atul Mujahideen India, the Indian wing of mainstream JMB, was divided into three factions due to differences of opinion between leaders.

Police today arrested four people in connection with the abduction and rape of a 16-year-old from the port city’s Akbarshah area.

The Brahmanbaria Zila Parishad has ascertained damages -- caused due to the mayhem unleashed by Hefajat-e-Islam activists and supporters in the district from March 26 to 28.

Two suspected robbers were beaten to death by a mob in Lakhai upazila of Habiganj this morning.

Police arrested a college teacher on charge of torturing her house help to death in Dhaka’s New Market area last night.

Police have arrested three people, including a lawyer, on charge of possessing heroin in Kurigram.

An Ansar member was stabbed to death in Hetam Khan Bidyut Bhaban in Rajshahi last night.

Police yesterday arrested three people on charge of sodomising a minor boy in Chatkhil municipality area of Noakhali.

Police detained a local Awami League leader in connection with the recovery of a body of a local businessman at the former's residence in Gaibandha today.

Twenty rounds of bullets, which were snatched from a policeman during clashes between police and Hefajat-e-Islam activists in Brahmanbaria, have been recovered two weeks after the incident.

Two gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed a prominent Greek crime journalist near his home in Athens on Friday, police said.