Detectives yesterday pressed charges against 15 people, including former lawmaker MA Awal, in a case filed over death of trader Md Shahinuddin, who was killed in front of his seven-year-old son in the capital's Pallabi on May 16 last year.

Four people have been arrested in a case on charge of attacking the Charrogram metropolitan magistrate in the port city last night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested eight persons in connection with violence during union parishad polls at Satkania Upazila in Chattogram on February 7. 

A Dhaka court yesterday directed the officer-in-charge of Cantonment Police Station execute the arrest warrant for former BNP lawmaker Mosaddek Ali Falu by March 24 in a case filed for siphoning Tk 183.92 crore to Dubai.

A court in Moulvibazar yesterday sent a youth to jail in a case filed for raping a three-year-old girl in Kulaura upazila on Friday.

Md Shahriar Alam, state minister for foreign affairs, yesterday reiterated that M Khairuzzaman, arrested in Malaysia, would be brought back home soon.

He was supposed to arrive in Bangladesh on February 18. Before going to work on Friday in Yemen, he spoke to his wife in Dhaka saying that he would call her back.

As the night grows dark, they get on easy-bikes, pretending to be innocent passengers. But as soon as they get an opportunity, they hold the driver hostage and snatch the vehicle.

Defying law and posing serious threats to the environment and public health, over 99 brick factories continue to operate in Brahmanbaria.

A Moulvibazar court today sent one youth to jail in a case filed for raping a three-year-old girl in Kulaura upazila on Friday.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned to immediately take necessary steps to find out the documents of actor Sohel Chowdhury murder case, as those are reportedly missing from this court and the trial court.

Miscreants torched a betel leaf garden at Komorpole village at Keshabpur upazila of Jashore today.

Rapid Action Battalion last night arrested three members of a gang for trafficking women to Dubai with false promises of jobs and later sold them there, forcing them into indecent work.

The Criminal Investigation Department of police arrested four members of a gang from Sadullapur in Gaibandha on Sunday for killing a battery-run auto-rickshaw driver and getting away with the vehicle last week.

A Narail court today sentenced a woman to life term imprisonment for smuggling heroin in 2015.

Police today recovered the semi-decomposed body of a boy from Taltola Boro Graveyard in Chuadanga, 26 days after he was abducted for ransom.

Police have arrested the driver of the ‘Chander Gari’ which ran over and killed two school students in Chattogram’s Fatikchhari upazila on February 9.

Two of the gun-toting criminals who were photographed during the recent UP election in Khagoria of Satkania upazila, under Chattogram, on February 7 have been arrested.

An Indian national, who had entered Bangladesh illegally, has been detained in Lalmonirhat.

A police constable was apprehended by locals while trying to steal a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Noakhali's Companiganj upazila last night.