Around 100 BNP leaders and activists were injured in an attack allegedly by Jubo League and Chhatra League men in Khulna city yesterday evening.

Questions raised by the High Court during a hearing of a case filed over a woman being assaulted for the dress she was wearing will encourage further harassment of women, two rights organisations said yesterday.

Five more Barguna police personnel have been withdrawn  yesterday over police charging batons on BCL activists in the district on Monday.

No case can be filed under the Digital Security Act without the express approval of a special cell headed by the divisional commissioner, the ICT ministry proposed yesterday.

Nur Mohammad used to work as a carpenter at a furniture shop in Dhaka’s Jurain area. One day, he got introduced to Robin at a tea stall, and from then on, the two started looking for ways to earn some easy money.

Hridoy Mondal, a Munshiganj schoolteacher whose harassment and arrest had sparked outrage across the country, has been acquitted in the case filed against him on charges of hurting religious sentiments.

Questions raised by the High Court during a hearing of a case filed over a woman being assaulted for the dress she was wearing will encourage further harassment of women, two rights organisations said today.

A former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) filed a case against journalist Sohel Rana, who came under attack by miscreants in Savar on August 14, 2022.

Police recovered six firearms including an AK-22 and around 113 rounds of bullets and arrested three persons in a drive at Raozan upazila of Chattogram early today (August 17, 2022).

The High Court today (August 17, 2022) wanted to know what facilities, including salary and allowances, Dhaka Wasa Managing Director Taqsem A Khan received from it in the last 13 years.

After arresting five members of a gang responsible for stealing bikes over the last eight years, Detective Branch of Police today revealed that over these years the five have stolen at least 500 bikes using “master keys”.

A Dhaka tribunal directed owner and driver of Suprobhat Paribahan Ltd to pay Tk one crore as compensation to the family of Pintu Sheikh, who was run over and killed by one of its buses in 2016.

A Chattogram tribunal today sentenced five members of the banned militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death for the bomb attack on a naval base in Chattogram.

A Dhaka court today again asked Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit probe report by October 2, 2022 in Bangladesh Bank cyber heist case.

Moharram Ali, additional superintendent (crime) of Barguna police, was yesterday withdrawn hours after the home minister commented on police charging batons on BCL activists in the district on Monday.

A Pabna court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife around eight years ago.

A local Awami League leader was stabbed to death and a party activist injured in an attack by unidentified criminals in the capital’s Jatrabari yesterday evening.

Members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn-16) in a drive arrested a Rohingya citizen of Myanmar in possession of a firearm and two rounds of bullets from a camp in Teknaf this noon (August 16, 2022).

A local Awami League leader was stabbed to death and another injured in Dhaka’s Jatrabari this evening.

Barguna Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Moharram Ali has been withdrawn and attached to Barishal Range DIG office.