Thirty years ago, the university was established as a non-profit with the vision to become a centre of excellence in higher education. But some of the trustees allegedly used the North South University to make a quick buck, tarnishing the image of one of the country’s best seats of learning.

A boy was found dead in a Buddhist monastery in Abdullahpur South Baruapara in Chattogram yesterday.

A Chattogram court has awarded a schoolteacher with eight-year imprisonment for hurting religious sentiment.

A man died while working in a garments factory after the authorities allegedly did not allow him to take sick leave in Gazipur Sadar upazila yesterday.

Rab last night arrested Henolux Group Managing Director Nurul Amin and Director Fatema Amin at a flat in the capital’s Uttara on charges of instigating a businessman to die by suicide.

The names of at least three influential Bangladeshi businessmen were mentioned during the interrogation of Proshanta Kumar Halder aka PK Halder, who is accused of embezzling Tk 3,000 crore.

Mohammad Uzzal, father of the prime accused in college lecturer Utpal Kumar Sarkar killing case, today (July 5, 2022) confessed to a magistrate that his son Ashraful Islam Jitu beat his teacher Utpal to death as he was aggrieved over excessive control from the victim.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested the managing director and the director of Amin Manufacturing Company in Dhaka for abetting suicide of a Kushtia businessman.

Police have arrested a man and his son in a case filed for killing a rival ride-sharing biker at Morrelganj in Bagerhat.

The High Court has issued three directives on the home ministry for introducing biometric data management system in all police stations and prisons across the country to prevent wrongful arrest and detention of people.

A special court in Kolkata today extended by 14 more days the jail custody of Bangladeshi national Prashanta K Halder, former managing director of NRB Global Bank and accused of siphoning Tk 3,000 crore and indulging in money laundering in India. , Prashanta K Halder, NRB Global Bank, Bangladesh, money laundering case, jail custody, Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court, West Bengal, Enforcement Directorate,Kolkata court,

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has detained five men from Dhaka’s Kamalapur Railway Station for their alleged involvement in selling train tickets illegally ahead of Eid-ul-Azha holidays.

Police on Sunday night detained six people in Khurushkul of Cox’s Bazar in connection with the killing of a local Chhatra League leader.

Eight people were sent to jail yesterday for hacking a woman to death and injuring her husband, at Aikadia village in Gopalganj’s Muksudpur upazila around 11:00pm on Sunday.

Police on Sunday night arrested Nurunnabi, a key accused in the case filed over the harassment of the acting principal of Mirzapur Degree College in Narail, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to five. 

A college student was stabbed to death at her home in Sherpur’s Nakla upazila yesterday.

A 40-year-old madrasa teacher in Rangpur’s Kaunia upazila was sent to jail yesterday for sexually abusing two 13-year-old residential students, said police. 

A businessman, purportedly out of frustration, tried to take his own life by setting himself alight in front of the Jatiya Press Club yesterday afternoon.

Another police official has been withdrawn following the humiliation of teacher Swapan Kumar Biswas in Narail.

Police today detained a woman for allegedly strangling her two-and-half-year-old daughter to death in Narayanganj Sadar upazila.