A madrasa teacher was arrested today in a case filed for mercilessly torturing a student for using mobile phone in Pabna’s Bera upazila.

A Dhaka court today again asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit -- by February 22 -- the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka's Gulshan.

Police arrested driver of the truck which last night ran over and killed Mahmud Habib Himel, a fourth-year student of graphic design, crafts and history of Rajshahi University. 

A shop owner tortured a young man -- tying him toa pole -- bringing allegation that the latter stole some grocery items in Chuadanga’s Alamdanga upazila.

A Dhaka tribunal today accepted charges against two people, including Rafiqul Islam Madani, widely known as "Shishu Bokta", in a case filed with Motijheel Police Station under the Digital Security Act.

A section of influential locals has grabbed a canal in Barguna’s Amtali upazila and has been using it as a fish enclosure, obstructing the natural water flow.

The verdict in the Major (retd) Sinha murder case was not just a victory for his family, but for all the families who have lost their loved ones to “crossfires” in the hands of Teknaf police.

The family of Nurunnahar Chowdhury, who recently went to the USA for higher education, has allegedly been ostracised by a local mosque committee in the district’s Kulaura upazila over her wearing short dresses and rumours over marrying a Hindu man there.

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate recovered 46 gold bars, worth around Tk 3 crore, from a wheel of an abandoned vehicle in GSE area of Shah Amanat International Airport Wednesday.

Some 40 leaders and activists, including BNP Central Cooperative Affairs Secretary GK Gaus, have been sent to jail in Habiganj on Tuesday.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict which in 2003 ruled that carrying and possessing Phensidyl is not a punishable offence.

A total of 272 women and girls faced violence in the first month of this year, said a report prepared by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.

Occupied footpaths have been a longstanding problem for commuters and pedestrians of Savar Bazar Bus Stand area.

Detectives arrested six more persons in connection with torturing and robbing Shafiqul Islam, a resident physician at a Tangail hospital, and other passengers on a moving bus on January 20.

Police arrested a death row convict of the seven-year-old child Rabbi murder case, who has been absconding for five years and seven months, from Jashore’s Lautara village last night.

A Chattogram court today sentenced a superintendent of madrasa to life term imprisonment in Satkania upazila for raping an assistant teacher in 2016.

Chattogram Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials recovered 46 gold bars, weighing around 5kg, from Shah Amanat International Airport in the port city this evening.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today scrapped a High Court verdict which in 2003 ruled that carrying and possessing Phensidyl is not a punishable offence.

The High Court today directed the government to submit -- to the court by April 17 -- a list of the names of buildings in Old Dhaka where chemical godowns, stores, and factories are running.

Film actress Pori Moni, accused in a narcotics case, could not appear before a Dhaka court today due to illness, her lawyer said.