A man today filed a case against his wife and his parents-in-law on charges of mentally torturing him by putting pressure to open an FDR of Tk 15 lakh and register land in his wife's name in Chattogram city's Pahartali area.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police today said police have successfully managed to thwart the attempts for widespread sabotage in the capital after the declaration of the election schedule

A Dhaka court today asked the investigation officer to submit by December 27 the probe report of a case filed against Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman and its staff reporter Samsuzzaman Shams under the Digital Security Act

The Supreme Court today upheld a High Court order that granted bail to Jagannath University student Khadijatul Kubra in two separate cases filed under the Digital Security Act, clearing the way of her release

The deadline for the report on the 2012 murders of Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi has been extended to December 19 for the 105th extension

A three-member probe committee has been formed to investigate a fire that broke out in a parked commuter train at Gharinda Railway Station in Tangail Sadar upazila early today

At least four policemen were injured in an attack on a police patrol team in Sapura area of Rajshahi last night

A group of miscreants blasted three crude bombs near the TSC area of Dhaka University around 10:15pm

A garment workers’ union leader who went missing on Tuesday was shown arrested yesterday in a case filed last month over an act of arson.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to attach 138 kathas of land owned by former chairman of Basic Bank Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu and his four family members in connection with a corruption case.

At least six vehicles were torched and 30 others were vandalised across the coutnry after the Election Commission announced the polls schedule yesterday evening.   

A man allegedly stabbed his elder sister to death over a family dispute in the Bhairab municipal area of Kishoreganj.

The body of an 11-year-old boy was found in a canal near his home in Jhalakathi’s Rajapur upazila on Tuesday evening.

A Manikganj court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing a mentally challenged woman after raping her in Singair upazila.

Police yesterday arrested a man for allegedly abducting a schoolgirl in the port city’s Chandgaon area.

A woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband in Mirzapur of Tangail over a family feud on Tuesday night.

The Supreme Court yesterday sentenced two convicts --Mehedi Hasan Swapan and Sumon Jamadder -- to life imprisonment in a case filed over the rape and murder of a girl, Fatima Akhter Eti, in Mathbaria of Pirojpur in 2014.

Arsonists are planning sabotage activities and setting buses on fire by using code words like “Bring the Coke bottle with you”, “We will have breakfast after sunset”, or “You are invited to have breakfast in the evening” -- in order to avoid law enforcers’ vigilance, claimed police yesterday.

An organised syndicate has been distributing counterfeit injections in the market, which are needed for kidney dialysis, newborn jaundice prevention, and vitamin-K deficiency treatment.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to constitute an independent national committee to prevent medicine adulteration in the full text of a verdict.