A housewife attempted to take her own life after police allegedly physically assaulted the woman and her mother-in-law in Chuadanga’s Damurhuda upazila yesterday.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against 11 people, including seven doctors, in a case filed over irregularities in the procurement of drugs for Maternal and Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka’s Azimpur.

A garment worker was stabbed to death allegedly by his neighbour over a trivial matter at Dhaka’s Uttara last night.

Police recovered the body of a school student in Tangail’s Kalihati upazila this morning, hours after he went missing.

Some 600 case records have gone missing from the government pleader (GP) lawyers’ office at the old collectorate building in Sirajganj.

Police yesterday recovered the body a jute mills employee from a jeep bearing stickers of the Secretariat in Bonpara Bypass area of Natore’s Baraigram upazila.

A sub-inspector of Shahbag Police Station was stabbed in Dhaka’s Gulistan tonight.

Three people were arrested today in a case filed over gang-rape of a readymade garment worker in Sadar upazila of Narayanganj.

A local Awami League leader has allegedly beat up an upazila assistant engineer of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) at Hatibandha in Lalmonirhat.

Two 11-year-old girls from the Hindu community were abducted allegedly by two local youths in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat last night.

Members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested a fugitive accused in the Shafiqul Bari Chowdhury murder case from Bank Colony area in Savar municipality today.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested five members, including the mastermind of a gang which had been preparing fake driving licence and NID cards for about 10 years.

A Dhaka court today accepted charges against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a case filed for siphoning off around Tk 222 crore and channelling it to casinos in Singapore and Malaysia between 2011 and 2018.

Expressing their shock, the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) in a statement called for prompt, impartial and effective judicial investigation into the death of political activist Nabayan Chakma Milon alias Sourav.

Police on Sunday recovered the body of Monowara Begum, a retired professor of Patuakhali Government College, from Kacha river in Patuakhali Sadar upazila, a day after she had gone missing.

A 70-year-old woman died after her son allegedly assaulted her in Mymensingh Sadar upazila yesterday.

It’s an organised gang that mostly operates in government hospitals. It targets those that come for treatment from outside Dhaka, feed them sedatives, and loot their valuables as the victims fall unconscious.

The reason behind the launch ML Afsar Uddin sinking was because drivers of the two vessels were driving recklessly in the Shitalakkhya River, said Additional District Magistrate Mohammad Shamim Bepari, head of the investigation committee formed by the Narayanganj district administration today.

The Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) has suggested the government include three provisions in the Evidence Act and repeal a section of the law to block all avenues of questioning the character of rape victims in court.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) filed a murder case against eight people today in connection with yesterday’s launch capsize in Narayanganj.