Once an area is declared a drug-prone zone, a taskforce will be formed with DNC and other law enforcement agencies involved in drug control. A list will be made of drug dealers, money launderers using drug money and the accused in drug-related cases, he added.

Now, the only option left for Mohiuddin, a Rajshahi University teacher at the time, and Zahangir, the then caretaker of Prof Taher's residence, is seeking mercy from the president

A Dhaka court today again asked PBI to submit by April 10 the probe report of the case filed against former lawmaker MA Awal and 14 others over the killing of trader Md Shahinuddin in 2021

The High Court yesterday ordered the Islamic University to suspend the five students who tortured a female student at a dorm in mid-February.

A higher court in Shillong on Tuesday upheld the acquittal of BNP leader Salauddin Ahmed who was charged with trespassing into India in 2015.

The hearing on charge framing in the Niko graft case will proceed on March 9 even if the defence does not take part, a court told BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyers yesterday.

Police arrested two persons with fake notes worth Tk 20 lakh from a bus on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in Chattogram yesterday.

Rab yesterday arrested a life-term convict in a rape case from Madhadbi area in Narsingdi early yesterday – 11 years after the verdict of his sentence was given.

Trained personnel of the newly-formed militant outfit Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya are now spreading to the plain lands from the remote forests of Chattogram Hill Tracts following continuous raids by law enforcement agencies.

More than three months have passed since two militants were whisked away from the premises of a Dhaka court by fellow militants. However, law enforcers could neither arrest nor locate them.

A Dhaka court yesterday extended bail of expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat until April 9 in a case filed for laundering around Tk 222 crore and channeling it to casinos in Singapore and Malaysia between 2011 and 2018.

The elderly woman accused of killing a 10-year-old house help made some contradictory claims about the cause of the girl’s death, police said.

A case was filed today against 19 people for allegedly assaulting AL leader Kibria Matubbar with hammer and iron rods in Shorifabad Bazar area of Faridpur's Bhanga upazila

BNP leader Salahuddin tells The Daily Star after his acquittal in India

"They were expelled due to their anti-organisation and undisciplined activities, and for tarnishing the image of BCL"

A team of police arrested Md Fakhruzzaman from South Goran area of Dhaka around 10:00pm yesterday

Wife of slain publisher Dipan asks as 2 escaped death-row militants still at large after more than 3 months

A Dhaka court today extended bail of expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat until April 9 in a case filed for laundering around Tk 222 crore and channeling it to casinos in Singapore and Malaysia between 2011 and 2018

A Dhaka court today told BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's defence lawyers that the hearing of the charge framing in the Niko graft case would proceed with or without their participation on the next scheduled date

"We have noticed from media that some unruly students are participating in the untoward incidents by using their political identities, which are tarnishing the glorious history of student politics"