The High Court yesterday summoned eight high officials -- three divisional commissioners, three deputy commissioners and two upazila nirbahi officers -- for allegedly their failure to comply with its directives for shutting down illegal brick kilns.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Evaly’s founding chief executive officer Mohammad Rassel, and his wife Shamima Nasrin, former chairperson of the e-commerce platform, to two years’ imprisonment in a case filed over the embezzlement of Tk 14.10 lakh from a customer.

Five more individuals have also been accused in the case

Officer-in-Charge of Baizid Bostami Police Station under Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) filed a general diary early today against a criminal after he issued a threat against the police officer on Facebook Live last night

Former mayor of Joypurhat Municipality Md Mostafizur Rahman Mostak was arrested at Hajrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka today while attempting to flee to Malaysia, said police

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, and Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) today strongly condemned the recent disruptions and violence targeting women’s football matches in Joypurhat and Dinajpur

The detainee, an eighteen-year-old from Mohammadpur, claimed to be a student of Bangladesh University

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate MA Azharul Islam passed the orders, following remand petitions submitted by case investigators

Former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder was shown arrested today in a case filed on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 25.35 crore from an unknown source of income

The High Court (HC) has commuted the death sentences of two convicts to life imprisonment and reduced another’s sentence to seven years in the 2017 rape and murder case of Zakia Sultana Rupa, a Dhaka Ideal Law College student, on a running bus in Madhupur, Tangail.

A Khulna court yesterday placed Golam Rabbani, a suspect in the case filed over Khulna University student Arnob’s murder, on a two-day remand for interrogation.

Muggers in Mohammadpur are no longer waiting for the cover of darkness.

A diploma engineer was stabbed to death in Dhaka’s Jatrabari this evening

The Anti-Corruption Commission today submitted three applications to show Mohibul Haque, former senior secretary of civil aviation and tourism, arrested in three cases of embezzlement totalling Tk 812 crore from four development projects at three airports

Khan was attacked in the early hours of January 16 at his Bandra apartment in Mumbai where he was stabbed six times

A 21-year-old youth was stabbed to death allegedly by his friends over "drug peddling" in Bogura Sadar upazila

Three sound grenades and two rounds of teargas shells looted from a police station on August 5 were recovered from a canal in Dhaka's Mohammadpur this afternoon

A Dhaka tribunal has issued an arrest warrant against Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, a former Jubo League leader and an alleged kingpin of the illegal casino business in Dhaka, after framing charges against him in a case filed under the Arms Act

The arrests were made by a joint team comprising the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police and Chawkbazar police over the past two days, confirmed Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DMP

The couple have been charged under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947