After a police officer was attacked during a raid in the port city, Chattogram police chief Hasib Aziz told officers to be ready to use arms for self-defence.

A Dhaka court yesterday began trials in three corruption cases against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 22 others, including four of her family members, over alleged irregularities in the allocation of Purbachal New Town plots, recording depositions from the complainants.

Journalists call case 'an attempt to silence the press'

The woman’s body was found in a tin-shed house in Shimrail, while the man’s body was discovered floating in the DND Lake

The murder has sparked panic among local residents

The drugs were destroyed at the training ground of BGB Battalion-34 in Cox's Bazar

ACC lodged six separate cases against Hasina over alleged irregularities in the allocation of plots under Purbachal New Town project

The government has extended the term of the National Consensus Commission till September 15.

A local BNP leader yesterday filed a defamation case against Sarjis Alam, chief organiser (northern region) of National Citizen Party (NCP), over “propaganda implicating BNP” in the murder of journalist Asaduzzaman Tuhin.

When the mob was fatally beating two people on suspicion of van theft in Rangpur on Saturday night, some policemen went there but they left the scene without rescuing the victims.

A case has been filed against Ruel Sangma, the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Atpara in Netrakona, on charges of beating a young man during disorder in distribution of rice among the poor before Eid-ul-Fitr.

Sheikh Mehedi Hasan Junaid’s father told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday that his son was only 14 and too young to understand what was going on.

Sumaiya Zafrin, wife of Major Sadikul Haque, has given a confessional statement in a case over an alleged “secret meeting” involving members of the Awami League and its banned student wing, Chhatra League..Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sarah Farznan Haque recorded Zafrin’s statement today

SI Md Mohsin and Constable Md Azad were attached to Chattogram Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch (DB) Port Zone

Two of the arrestees were listed drug dealers, while one was held on suspicion

The detained were preparing to utilise artisanal trawling method

At least 34, mostly students, died after the air force jet crashed on the school on July 21

The incident occurred around 1:00am after activists of the banned Awami League staged a sudden procession in Saltgola last night

The trial of three graft cases filed against 23 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and daughter Saima Wazed Putul, began at a Dhaka court with depositions of three complainants yesterday.

Earlier, law enforcement agencies arrested eight people, including the prime accused Mizan alias Ketu Mizan, in the murder case