Man arrested with pipe bomb in Savar gets six-day remand
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70-year-old woman killed in land dispute clash in Netrokona
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Rickshaw-puller dies after alleged beating over parking in Rajshahi
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Mymensingh man hacked to death in broad daylight
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Police file case over recovery of powerful bomb in Savar
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Sylhet triple murder: Police recover knife based on suspect's information
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Couple, house help murdered in Sylhet home
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Bomb defused in Savar; blast near Barishal court
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2 arrested over rape of Moulvibazar woman
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Man killed over disputed land in Satkhira

A man was killed allegedly by his nephew during an altercation over the construction of a septic tank on a disputed land in Kaliganj upazila of Satkhira yesterday (May 16, 2022).
16 May 2022

Take steps to extradite Halder

Bangladesh’s Interpol desk has requested its Indian counterpart to extradite PK Halder and five others arrested by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED).
16 May 2022

Justice sinha’s wealth: His nephew, brother testify

Former chief justice SK Sinha, who is convicted in a corruption case, used his elder brother and a nephew to cover up his ill-gotten wealth.
16 May 2022

TTE Shafiqul gets clean chit

The allegation that Travelling Ticket Examiner Md Shafiqul Islam misbehaved with three train passengers and fined them for travelling without tickets has been found false, finds a railway probe body. 
16 May 2022

Samrat’s bail: ACC seeks its cancellation

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a petition with the High Court seeking the cancellation of the bail granted to expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a corruption case.
16 May 2022

Three arrested for raping 2 cousins

Three men were arrested yesterday on charges of gangraping two cousins in Khulna’s Batiaghata upazila.
16 May 2022

Man sentenced to life for child’s rape, murder

A Bagerhat court yesterday sentenced Kalim Sheikh, 30, to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old.
16 May 2022

VoA journo’s mother found dead

Police yesterday recovered the body of Setara Halim, 75, mother of Amir Khasru, a journalist of Voice of America Bangla service, from her house in Pirojpur town.
16 May 2022

Journalist injured following attack in Cumilla’s Daudkandi

A local journalist sustained critical injuries in an attack by miscreants in Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla this (May 16, 2022) afternoon.
16 May 2022

Cousins tortured while tied to trees on theft charge in Narail

Two men have been tortured brutally while being tied to separate trees on suspicion of stealing a goat in Lohagara upazila of Narail.
16 May 2022

Man gets life term for raping, murdering child in Bagerhat

A Bagerhat court has sentenced Kalim Sheikh (30) to life imprisonment for raping and killing a child named Zakia (12) at Chitalmari in Bagerhat.
16 May 2022

Graft case: SK Sinha’s brother, nephews give judicial statements

The elder brother of former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and two of his nephews gave judicial statements as witnesses before three separate magistrates in a case filed against him for allegedly amassing more than Tk 7 crore illegally.
16 May 2022

Beaten up for ‘stealing maize’, speech impaired man dies in Dinajpur hospital

A speech impaired man died this morning while undergoing treatment at M Abdur Rahim Medical College in Dinajpur. On Thursday (May 12, 2022), he was beaten up for allegedly stealing maize from a local field.
16 May 2022

Dhaka’s Interpol office requests India to return PK Halder

The National Central Bureau (NCB), Interpol's regional office in Dhaka, has requested its Indian counterpart to extradite former NRB Global Bank managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, and five others who have been arrested by India’s Directorate of Enforcement (ED).
16 May 2022

India should be thanked for arresting PK Halder, High Court says

Expressing satisfaction at the arrest of Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, in India on charge of laundering a huge sum of money, a High Court bench today (May 16, 2022) said the Indian government should be thanked for the arrest.
16 May 2022

From Pirojpur's "Moru" to today's PK Halder

Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, is the eldest of three sons of primary school teacher Lilabati Haldar and tailor Pralab Chandra Halder of Matibhanga union under Pirojpur’s Nazirpur upazila.
16 May 2022

Did PK Halder get support from local influentials in West Bengal?

Officials of India’s Enforcement Directorate, probing the money laundering case against Proshanta Kumar Halder – better known as PK Halder – would ascertain if he took the help of local influentials to settle down in Ashoknagar, West Bengal, after sneaking in from Bangladesh.
16 May 2022

DSHE staffers involved in recruitment exam's question leak: DB

Two employees of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) leaked the question paper of the recruitment exam for the post of “office assistant/computer operator”.
16 May 2022

2 men sued for raping woman in Gazipur

A rape case was filed against two men yesterday (May 15, 2022) for gang-raping a woman overnight while making her husband hostage at a mess in Gazipur's Tongi on May 13, 2022.
15 May 2022

PK Halder probe: India on trail of his laundered money

Indian investigators are trying to trace how much money PK Halder, allegedly involved in over Tk 10,000-crore loan scams in Bangladesh, laundered to India and the amount of wealth he obtained through it.
15 May 2022