Police have arrested a convict who remained absconded for 19 years after killing her pregnant mother.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a schoolboy at Ratankandi union in Sirajganj Sadar.

The Rohingya man who got shot during last week’s gunfight near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border yesterday claimed that he was a member of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation, a militant group of Myanmar.

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) detained two police constables with phensedyl in their possession in Lalmonirhat.

Police arrested four senior bankers including three Islami Bank officials in connection with a case filed over plastering posters and making social media posts to defame the owners of Chattogram-based S Alam Group.

Tension has been high along Tambru border in Bandarban as gun battle between two Rohingya militant groups resumed yesterday morning at a refugee camp on the no-man’s-land.

Police yesterday handed over the body of a yarn trader, allegedly tortured to death in police custody in Gazipur, to his family without performing an autopsy.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested two more people, and identified a BCL leader as the prime suspect in the Rajeev murder committed six years ago.

Pritom Das, a leader of left-leaning organisation Rashtra Sangskar Andolan, was freed from jail on bail yesterday, 131 days after he was arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for “hurting religious sentiment”.

A Rangpur court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife for dowry 16 years ago in Pirganj upazila.

Police arrested four senior bankers including three Islami Bank officials in connection with a case filed over plastering posters and making social media posts to defame the owners of Chattogram-based S Alam Group.

The High Court today summoned the director general (DG) of Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME) to appear before it over non-compliance of its order for producing some documents regarding admission of a medical student.

A cameraperson working for private television channel NTV alleged that police took the memory card of his camera when he was recording the detention of BNP men in Chattogram.

Pritom Das, a leader of left-leaning organisation Rashtra Sangskar Andolan, walked out of jail on bail yesterday, 131 days after he was arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act on for "hurting religious sentiment".

A Dhaka court today directed authorities concerned of the government to publish a gazette asking BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman to appear before it on February 6 in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

National Human Rights Commission Chairman Kamal Uddin Ahmed has assured the Mro community that those involved in torching and vandalising their homes in a Bandarban village on January 1 will not be spared.

There are 135 brick kilns operating illegally in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram, posing serious threats to public health as well as the environment.

At least 12 people, including two cops, were injured as a mob clashed with police in Gazipur city’s Bhogra bypass area yesterday morning over the death of a trader allegedly due to torture in police custody.

A syndicate has been trapping people and embezzling huge sums of money with a false assurance of providing fake US visas from Bangladesh.

Bodies of two Ansar members were recovered from the storeroom of the state-run Agrani Bank’s Radhaganj branch in Narsingdi’s Raipura upazila yesterday afternoon.