The Appellate Division today stayed the High Court proceedings in a contempt of court case against Kushtia DC, SP and three others for six months over their alleged involvement in buying and selling properties worth Tk 123 crore at a price of Tk 15 crore through an auction, violating an HC stay order.

Three people were injured and at least 20 houses were set on fire or ransacked during a clash between two factions of ruling Awami League in Narsingdi's Raipura upazila.

Abu Jafar's family was sure that he had been living in the Maldives for the last three years.

Detectives today said they arrested a member of a gang of motorcycle thieves who was involved in stealing around 1,000 bikes over the last 15 years.

A seven-year-old girl, who went missing from close to her Rupganj home in Narayanganj on January 25, was found dead in the  Shitalakkhya river in Dhaka’s Demra area.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday gave the Jamaat-e-Islami two months to prepare a concise statement of the party’s appeal against a High Court verdict that scrapped its registration with the Election Commission.

Members of the Counter Terrorism Division of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) yesterday arrested a suspended staff of the Election Commission's Chattogram regional office over forging birth certificates.

The High Court today stayed for six months the trial proceedings of a criminal case that Tureen Afroz, a former prosecutor at the International Crimes Tribunal, filed against her brother for issuing death threats and demeaning her character.

Two death-row fugitives, who were sentenced by the International Crimes Tribunal for committing crimes against humanity in 1971, were arrested from Dhaka's Dakshin Khan and Ashulia area yesterday.

A truck driven by a gang of robbers ran over a woman, killing her, as she .and her son were trying to stop them from stealing her cattle in Poncho Sarutia shoal of Sirjganj’s Sadar upazila early today..Her son was injured in the incident..The deceased was identified as Selina K

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today gave Jamaat-e-Isami two months' time to prepare a concise statement of the party's appeal against a High Court verdict that scrapped its registration with the Election Commission..A concise statement contains the points on which the appella

Police arrested four people yesterday in a case filed over the death of two children from "food poisoning" after eating cakes and patties from a bakery in Gazipur city on Sunday. A third child had fallen ill after consuming food from the shop in the same incident.

Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya posed a bigger security threat than any militant outfit ever did, law enforcers said.

A man was shot dead in broad daylight by unidentified criminals in Khulna’s Phultala upazila yesterday morning.

The office of Chittagong University VC Prof Shireen Akhter was ransacked allegedly by a group of Chhatra League men yesterday “for not recruiting a former leader of the student organisation as a teacher”.

A Jordanian-American pilot has died due to the negligence of a reputed private hospital in Dhaka, his sister has alleged.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) must unearth the facts behind any incidents of conspiracy against the country, so that appropriate action can be taken against the offenders.

The High Court today wanted to know what steps have been taken to ensure that doctors concerned provide post-mortem reports in readable handwriting and add a typed copy with a report.

The lone arrestee in the former college principal murder case in Lalmonirhat has confessed to the killing, said police.

A tribunal in Dhaka sentenced Shafiur Rahman Farabi, a life-term convict in writer-blogger Avijit Roy murder case, to seven years' vigorous jail in an ICT case.