The attorney general’s office has taken an initiative for the High Court hearing on a five-year old suomuto (voluntary) rule over formation of an enquiry commission to identify the “culprits who made up false stories” about a corruption conspiracy involving the Padma Bridge project.

Sumon Shikder alias Musa, a key accused, has confessed to a magistrate that he assigned Masum Mohammad Akash to kill Dhaka Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu from Dubai.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today (June 26, 2022) said that almost half of drug addicts in the country are educated persons.

Declaring BNP's acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman as "fugitives", the High Court today (June 26, 2022) rejected their writ petitions challenging the initiation and filing of a Tk 4.82 crore corruption case filed during the caretaker government in 2007.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested a former local BNP leader – a death row fugitive in a case filed over the attack on a train carrying then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in 1994 in Pabna.

Despite tough vigilance and special drives by law enforcers, narcotics, especially yaba, smuggling increased in 2021, when compared with the previous year.

A 14-year-old boy of Rangpur’s Gangachara upazila was found dead in Dhaka’s Tongi on Friday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has sued former director of Pabna Mental Hospital and four others for allegedly embezzling Tk 88 lakh through manipulating prices of essential commodities while making a purchase.

Police recovered the body of a six-year-old schoolgirl, suspected to have been raped before murder, from Feni’s Daganbhuiyan upazila yesterday afternoon.

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a man from Rangamati’s Rajasthali upazila yesterday morning after a “gunfight between two armed groups”.

A man allegedly hacked his wife, her mother and uncle to death in Sherpur’s Sreebordi upazila on Thursday night.

Four police officers, including Bogura’s Sariakandi police station’s OC, have been sued on Thursday for allegedly torturing and framing a local trader in two false cases for bribe.

An arrested college student has been sent to jail for reportedly uploading a Facebook post about Nupur Sharma, suspended BJP leader in India, who made derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

A man allegedly hacked his wife and two in-laws to death and injured three others in Sherpur’s Sreebordi upazila last night (June 23, 2022).

A Dhaka court yesterday recorded a case against Dhaka Wasa MD and eight others for embezzling Tk 132 crore and then hours later said it did not have jurisdiction over the matter and “restored the complaint to the complainant”.

Criminals shot dead a so-called Arsa member at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’ Ukhiya upazila on Wednesday evening, said police.

Police yesterday arrested a man for his alleged involvement in the rape of his co-worker at a restaurant in Narsingdi.

A BNP leader was hacked to death in Narsingdi’s Kath Bazar area on Wednesday night.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday acquitted two accused, who have been serving in the condemn cell for 14 years after being sentenced to death, in a case filed for killing a mother and her daughter in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi in 2006.

Parents, relatives and students demonstrated in Tangail town yesterday, demanding arrest of those responsible for the death of a fifth-grader of a private school.