A joint operation by the Bangladesh Coast Guard and Navy rescued 38 people, including women and children, from human traffickers in the remote hills of Baharchhara in Teknaf early yesterday.

Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman yesterday said there is no legal barrier to implementing the July Charter in line with the decision of the National Consensus Commission.

A journalist was hacked to death by armed assailants in Bagerhat town last night.

Unidentified miscreants set a bus of Alif Paribahan on fire in Dhaka’s Senpara area yesterday morning.

A portion of the Gohala river in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj has been illegally leased to a businessman by a local mosque committee and influentials, sparking widespread criticism.

A woman was hacked to death allegedly by a neighbour in Monirampur upazila of Jashore on Thursday evening.

Most shops at the Aziz Super Market near the capital’s Shahbagh remained closed since yesterday afternoon due to tension between two factions over the formation of the Shop Owners’ Association Committee.

Four senior Awami League leaders, including former law minister Anisul Huq and deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s former adviser Salman F Rahman, may soon be formally charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the July uprising, according to the prosecution.

The family of the girl, who was allegedly gang-raped on her way home in Khagrachhari on September 23, said a sense of insecurity is heavily hampering their livelihood.

GD filed by victim’s family

Three employees were injured in separate crude bomb attacks on two business establishments in Nawapara of Abhaynagar upazila in Jashore on Wednesday night.

Three cases have been filed over the violence in Khagrachhari’s Sadar and Guimara upazilas following the alleged rape of a schoolgirl last week.

Complaint says youths attacked after demand for all-night music was denied

A man was arrested in a case filed over the rape of an eight-year-old girl in Surabari area of Gazipur city on Wednesday.

Police have arrested two persons on charges of raping a schoolgirl in Mymensingh's Haluaghat upazila on Monday.

Police on Tuesday arrested two men in Mymensingh city for their involvement in forcibly shaving the hair and beard of 70-year-old Halim Uddin Akand just before Eid-ul-Azha this year.

A report prepared by a government medical board in Khagrachhari says that doctors found “no evidence of rape” in tests on a 12-year-old schoolgirl, whose alleged assault triggered fierce protests in the hilly district.

SI attacked by alleged drug peddler during operation; admitted to DMCH

Police investigating incident, reviewing CCTV footage

Child's body was dumped in a septic tank; 4 suspects arrested