Members of Rapid Action Battalion have arrested the bus driver accused in a case filed over the Jhalakathi bus accident that left 17 passengers dead on July 22.

Around a week ago, Sub-Inspector Anwarul Islam and Assistant Sub-Inspector Haridas Roy of the capital’s Pallabi Police Station arrested a man in Adarsha Nagar on charges of selling cannabis.

The bodies of a couple were recovered from a tin-shed room in the capital’s East Rampura in early hours yesterday.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a college student near the outer signal area of Bhanugach Road in Sreemangal.

A Joypurhat court yesterday sentenced two men to death for killing a man over previous enmity in 2008.

The High Court yesterday observed that due procedure was not followed in suspending five students from Islamic University for torturing a female student at a dormitory in February.

At least 86 BNP men were arrested over the last 24 hours and sent to jail today, ahead of the party’s scheduled grand rally in the capital tomorrow, said court sources

Four associates of former managing director of NRB Global Bank Proshanta Kumar Halder today pleaded not guilty after a Dhaka court read out the charges against them in a case filed over laundering Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassing about Tk 426 crore illegally

A Rohingya man was beaten to death allegedly by members of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox's Bazar this morning

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday paid Tk 12.47 crore tax on the money he donated to his three trusts.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday issued an arrest warrant against Sohel Uddin Prince, a suspended assistant superintendent of police (ASP), in a case filed against him on charge of raping a woman.

Nine activists of Rangpur district unit Chhatra League were expelled on Sunday for breaching discipline and clashing during a party programme around a month ago.

A girl “took her own life” on Monday night after police tried to detain her mother from their Pallabi home in the capital for refusing to bribe them, family members have alleged.

The foreign ministry yesterday summoned the heads of 13 foreign missions over their joint statement condemning the attack on Hero Alom during the Dhaka-17 by-election.

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus today paid Tk 12.47 crore tax on the money he donated to his three trusts

Two judges of a High Court bench asked lawyers not to use the words “my lord” to address them

Hatirjheel police today detained a man in connection with issuing death threat to Ashraful Alom alias Hero Alom over phone

Mohammad Shahed Karim, chairman of Regent Group, today pleaded not guilty and sought justice after a Dhaka court read out the charges against him in a case filed for acquiring illegal wealth worth Tk 1.69 crore

The Supreme Court today ordered status quo until August 3 on the proceedings of a case filed against Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and three other officials of Grameen Telecom in connection with labour law violation

Shariful Islam Ramzan, general secretary of Natore district Awami League, and 29 others have been sued for their alleged involvement in severing the hand of a Jubo League leader