Malaria has gripped an inaccessible hilly upazila of Rangamati district. Jurachhari has seen as many as 388 cases of the vector-borne  disease in last two months.

Criminals threw out a man from a bus and then gang-raped his wife in the moving vehicle in Gazipur on Friday night.

Three robbers have given confessional statements before two Tangail courts today (August 6, 2022) in the cases filed over the gang-rape of a woman and looting valuables of the passengers after taking control of a bus on the Dhaka-Tangail highway on August 3, 2022.

Eight top officials of an IT company that provides software to the Malaysian government were arrested Tuesday for accepting bribes to recruit workers, including Bangladeshis.

Police are looking for a man named Ratan who is suspected of being the mastermind of last week’s robbery on a bus in Tangail.

Rab arrested six people, including five women, in Narayanganj on charges of being involved with a human trafficking racket and rescued two victims, including a girl. 

Police recovered the body of a woman at her home in Rajshahi city yesterday.

Police arrested two more members of a robbery gang responsible for raping a woman and looting passengers' valuables after taking control of a bus on Dhaka-Tangail highway on early Wednesday.

When a piece of Personal Protective Equipment (medical coveralls) was Tk 1,200, the authorities bought 50,000 of them for Tk 3,900 each from a motor parts supplier.

At least six Jubo Dal activists in Barishal’s Pathorghata upazila were injured when their procession was attacked allegedly by local Chhatra League men yesterday.  

The High Court yesterday declared that the decision by Dhaka University authorities to demote Samia Rahman from the post of associate professor to the rank of assistant professor on charges of plagiarism was “illegal”.

The woman gang-raped in a moving bus early Wednesday said she had been violated six times.

There were six pellets in the head of Noor-e-Alam, president of Bhola Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal who was shot during a clash between police and BNP men, said morgue sources yesterday after an autopsy.

Hekmat Ali, complainant of the Tangail bus robbery and gang-rape case, narrated his dreadful experience on that night to The Daily Star.

Railway staffers in Dinajpur blocked the railroad for over an hour yesterday, demanding police file a case against a narcotics department officer on charge of assaulting four staffers who asked him to show his ticket.

The High Court yesterday observed that Anti-Corruption Commission may look into the allegations of Grameen Telecom illegally diverting funds to other companies and sending money to its trade union and lawyer’s account.

The Criminal Investigation Department has filed a case against AHM Fuad, ex-APS of Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, former Awami League minister, for amassing wealth worth around Tk 5.45 crore illegally.

A Narayanganj court yesterday sentenced Nur Hossain, condemned in the sensational seven-murder case, to life imprisonment in an arms case.

A Natore court today (August 4, 2022) sent Lakshipur-Kholabaria Union Parishad Chairman Nuruzzaman Kalu to jail on charges of beating a madrasa teacher last morning.

Hekmat Ali, the plaintiff of the case filed for robbery and gang-rape on a moving bus in Tangail, narrated the horrifying incident which occurred on the night of August 3.