Among all age groups, girls in grades 6–10 were subjected to sexual violence the most last year, according to a new media monitoring report by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.

Seven prosecution witnesses yesterday testified in three cases filed against 23 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her daughter Saima Wazed Putul and son Sajeeb Wazed Joy over irregularities in plot allocation in Purbachal New Town.

A Dhaka Medical College Hospital doctor yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that many patients with gunshot wounds sustained during last year’s July uprising were shot from high above.

A Cox’s Bazar court yesterday sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Moheshkhali upazila in 2022.

A Guyanese national was arrested with around 8.6kg of cocaine at Dhaka airport yesterday, and officials said the drug was not meant for local use.

Police have arrested a man on charges of raping a teenage girl with intellectual disability in Bandarban’s Lama upazila on Sunday.

Two suspects arrested

They chased invited guests, obstructed them from attending the event, and threw eggs, it says

The victim suffered multiple injuries to her face and neck

The case involves the heist of $101 million from Bangladesh Bank's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February 2016

On August 11, the court started recording statements of the witnesses

The body has been kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy

Police have pressed charges against eight people in a case filed over the murder of journalist Asaduzzaman Tuhin in Gazipur on August 7.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin yesterday appointed 25 new judges to the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, raising the number of HC judges to 113.

Suspected robbers launched an assault on a newly established police camp in Munshiganj’s Gajaria upazila yesterday, sparking a gunfight between them and law enforcers yesterday.

A man was beaten to death for his alleged involvement in a theft incident in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila early yesterday.

Urging the international community to take stronger action to ensure justice, repatriation, and stability for the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday placed a seven-point proposal to help resolve the Rohingya crisis.

Former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman among ex-police officials facing crimes against humanity charges

Arifuzzaman had been in hiding since the July uprising

Law ministry issued four separate notifications to this end today