A Dhaka court yesterday sent Commodore Monirul Islam, former director (border) of the National Security Intelligence (NSI), to jail in a case filed over the death of Bahadur Hossain Monir, 17, in the Gulshan area during quota reform protests on July 19.

Over the last two months, at least 86 physicians and 136 students in eight public medical colleges and hospitals across the country have faced different punitive actions on various allegations, including “taking a stance against” the quota reform movement.

A total of 3,195 people who have allegedly been involved in violence against students and people during the uprising have been arrested over the first 13 days of this month, according to a press release sent by the police.

Nuruzzaman’s son, Sifat Ullah, was killed during the anti-discrimination student movement on August 5 in Gazipur’s Mauna. Recently, the family became victims of fraud, losing over Tk 1.5 lakh.

The Department of Narcotics Control in a series of raids in Gulshan, Bhatara, and Moghbazar areas, arrested seven youths for their alleged connection with smuggling and selling drugs.

A teenager was killed while trying to stop cattle thieves from stealing a cow in Cumilla’s Nangolkot upazila yesterday.

Husband, father–in-law on the run

The victim, Rasel, a student from the 50th batch of the Department of Zoology, is undergoing treatment at Savar Enam Medical College

Law enforcers arrested six people linked to a group of miscreants who, while posing as security personnel, allegedly robbed Tk 75 lakh and 70 bhoris of gold ornaments from an apartment of a building in Mohammadpur early today

There is no scope to escape punishment after committing any crime in the country, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md Mainul Islam said yesterday.

Satkhira district police have announced a reward for information leading to the capture of the thief who stole a crown of the goddess Kali at the Jeshoreshwari Temple in Shyamnagar, Satkhira.

Police are yet to identify the man who threw what locals said was a molotov cocktail at idols of a puja mandap in the capital’s Tanti Bazar on Friday night.

An 18-year-old was sent to jail for hacking a journalist to death in Shambhuganj Bazar-Majhipara area in Mymensingh city yesterday.

A group of miscreants in the guise of security forces robbed Tk 75 lakh and 70 bhoris of gold ornaments from a building in the Mohammadpur area of the capital early yesterday, said police.

A gunfight broke out between two factions of the BNP in Raozan upazila of Chittagong this afternoon, leaving two injured with bullets, said police

Border Guard Bangladesh has detained AKMG Kibria Majumdar, joint secretary of the Jatia Sangsad secretariat, from Brahmanbaria while he was attempting to flee to India illegally

Former lawmaker from Feni-3 constituency Haji Rahim Ullah was arrested from Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area this evening

A man killed his sister and sister-in-law this morning at Sanghat village in Meherpur's Gangni upazila over a land dispute

In a joint raid by the army and police, four drug dealers were detained from Mathbaria upazila in Pirojpur early today

Police have detained two persons allegedly for making and spreading derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on Facebook