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Two arrested with 2 kg gold at Dhaka airport area

Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested two persons along with two kg gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area in Dhaka early today.
30 January 2021

Body of missing JP leader found in Ctg; Rohingya youth held

One month after he went missing, police recovered the decomposed body of a Jatiya Party leader from his farm house in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram early today.
30 January 2021

Cops bust ‘weapon factory’ in port city

Police claimed to have busted a makeshift weapon-making factory on a building’s rooftop in Chattogram city’s Bangshal Para early yesterday.
29 January 2021

Marine engineer, wife sent to jail for murder of house help in Mymensingh

A marine engineer and his wife were sent to jail by a Mymensingh court over the murder of their house help.
29 January 2021

Man arrested for attempting to rape step-daughter in Rajbari

A man has been arrested in Rajbari’s Goalanda for allegedly trying to rape his step-daughter, an eighth grader.
28 January 2021

Minor posing as ‘top Indian criminal’, trying to extort businessman in Dhaka arrested: DB

The boy started working as a salesman at a clothes shop after he failed SSC exams. With a larger than life dream to be rich overnight, he fled from home and started treading the path of crime to realise his audacious aspiration, detectives said today.
28 January 2021

Youth shot dead in clash in Shariatpur

A youth was shot to death in a clash yesterday between two groups of people of Jajira's Naodoba union in Shariatpur over a land dispute.
27 January 2021

Extortion case: HC refuses to grant bail to ex-Faridpur AL leaders

The High Court today refused to grant bail to former Faridpur town unit Awami League general secretary Sazzad Hossain Barkat and his brother Imtiaz Hasan alias Rubel in an extortion case involving Tk 50 lakh.
27 January 2021

Rape at MC College: Probe body finds negligence of hostel superintendents, guards

The probe committee has found negligence of two hostel-superintendents and five guards at Sylhet's MC College in ensuring security resulting in the gang-rape of a woman in the hostel in September last year, Supreme Court lawyer Md Mesbah Uddin told The Daily Star while disclosing details of the report today.
27 January 2021

Graft case: PK Halder’s aide Abantika sent to jail after remand

A Dhaka court today sent Abantika Boral, an aide to PK Halder, to jail on expiry of her three-day remand in connection with a graft case.
27 January 2021

Visitors harassed at Hatirjheel: Drive on to ensure security, police say

Police yesterday detained 16 boys from Dhaka's Hatirjheel area for allegedly harassing visitors there. They were later handed over to their parents upon receiving undertaking as they were not accused in any cases.
27 January 2021

Man allegedly stabbed to death by brother, police claim not CCC election related violence

A man was stabbed to death, allegedly by his brother, at Pahartoli area this morning while voting was going in Chattogram City Corporation election with stray incidents of clashes.
27 January 2021

AL leader in Dhaka's Darus Salam area sued for torturing wife

A woman has been driven out of her house along with her mentally ill child for failing to pay dowry in the capital’s Darus Salam area.
26 January 2021

NBR sacks official for embezzling Tk 3.50 crore of tax

An assistant commissioner of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been terminated for embezzling Tk 3.50 crore of tax money without depositing it to the government treasury.
26 January 2021

4 criminals held in Jhenidah for kidnapping two college students from Khulna

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have detained four members of a terrorist group from Jhenidah early today for kidnapping two college students from Khulna.
26 January 2021

Man killed in ‘gunfight’ between 2 groups of Rohingyas at Cox’s Bazar refugee camp

A Rohingya man was killed in an alleged gunfight between two groups of Rohingya at a refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today.
26 January 2021

Five arrested over killing businessman near High Court

Detectives claimed to have arrested five alleged muggers in connection with killing cable operator businessman Hamidul Islam near High Court in Dhaka on Saturday night.
26 January 2021

Attack on Cops: More than 50 people sued, 8 arrested

Around four dozen people were sued over attacking a police team in Pirojpur Sadar upazila early yesterday.
25 January 2021

Sexual predator in guise of beggar held in Rajshahi

A man has been arrested in Rajshahi for sexually harassing women while being in guise of a beggar.
25 January 2021

Repeated rape through blackmail: university student in Dhaka arrested

Police arrested a private university student from Dhaka on charge of raping a student of another university in October last year and blackmailing her for months afterwards.
25 January 2021