Customs Intelligence has pressed charges against owners of Apan Jewellers Gulzar Ahmed and Azad Ahmed in connection with two money laundering cases.

Police have arrested a local Jubo League leader in connection with a case filed over the murder of a local journalist during a firefight between two factions of Awami League at Companiganj in Noakhali on February 19.

Prison authorities today suspended two prison guards in Chattogram Central Jail, and withdrew its jailer and deputy jailer, for their negligence in discharging duty after a murder accused inmate went missing from prison.

Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, now on bail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act, yesterday said he did not do anything wrong or commit any offense by drawing cartoons but he still became a “victim of the situation”.

An accused in a murder case went missing from Chattogam Central Jail today.

Indian police have arrested three Bangladeshi nationals in connection with a robbery case in Delhi, a senior police official said today.

Police arrested a 14-year-old early today for raping a five-year-old, allegedly luring her with candy, in Dumuria upazila in Khulna.

A foreman died at Tasin Steel Shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early today.

Police yesterday arrested three members of banned militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) including its operations branch head during a raid at Sayedabad in Dhaka.

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) said they have recovered a big consignment of highly addictive crystal meth near a Rohingya camp in Teknaf, known as the traditional gateway of yaba pills into Bangladesh from Myanmar.

The death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in prison was due to natural causes, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today.

After walking out of Kashimpur Central Jail-2 in Gazipur, cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore was on the way to a hospital and said, "I am not in a condition to go home."

Police recovered the body of a woman in Shibganj municipality area of Chapainawabganj this morning.

Customs officials detained a man with 45 gold bars -- weighing over five kgs -- at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early today.

Putting Mushtaq Ahmed behind bars for his writing and letting his death happen in prison were terrible injustices, Prof Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury said yesterday.

A mobile court today conducted a drive in Gazipur's Board Bazar and surrounding areas and disconnected more than 800 illegal gas connections of 400 houses.

A total of 26,695 rape cases have been filed across the country in the last five years, said the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) in a report submitted to the High Court today.

A man was arrested on the charge of throwing stones at a running train in Jashore early today.

Two people including a Rohingya woman were arrested from Narayanganj during their attempt to obtain a Bangladeshi passport with fake identities and documents.

Three persons were arrested today in a case filed over raping a woman at a village in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali on Saturday (February 27).