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

A Feni court yesterday sentenced a woman to life term imprisonment in a case filed for killing a newborn in the district's Sadar upazila in 2008.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a Buddhist monk from a temple near Khagrachhari’s Gukrachhari Paimong Member Para village.

Major (retired) Sinha Md Rashed Khan’s murder was premeditated, a Cox’s Bazar court said yesterday as it handed down death sentence to suspended police officials Pradeep Kumar Das and Liaqat Ali for the killing.

Yesterday’s landmark verdict that sentenced two cops to death and six for life also offered a rare glimpse into how a “crossfire” is cooked up.

This is the first time in the country any law enforcer, let alone five, has been brought to book by a court for staging a “shootout”.

July 31, 2020 Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan shot dead by police at a checkpost on Marine Drive road, Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

Promising marriage, a youth raped a ninth grader in Natore’s Gurudaspur upazila early yesterday, police said, quoting her family members.

A Pabna court yesterday rejected the bail petitions of Bharara union parishad Chairman Abu Sayeed Khan and two of his followers, and sent them to jail over the murder of Yasin Alom, 40, an independent candidate killed in a clash on December 11 ahead of UP polls in the union.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to shut down all unlicensed brick kilns in Dinajpur and Moulvibazar in seven days to curb air pollution and save the environment.

Police today said they were trying to get in touch with former state minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Murad Hassan, as part of their ongoing investigation regarding the general diary his wife filed against him recently, alleging torture and abuse.

The High Court today issued a rule over compensation of Tk 50 lakh to Gonoshasthaya Kendra programme officer Awlad Hossain who has been suffering in jail for 68 days under fake arrest warrants.

A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by a cook in Chattogram city’s Lalkhan Bazar area this afternoon.

Suspended police inspector Liakat Ali and former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das had murdered retired Army Major Sinha Md Rashed Khan in a premeditated manner, observed a Cox’s Bazar court while delivering the verdict in the sensational case today.

A Buddhist monk was found dead in Ghukrachhari Dharmasukh Bouddha Bihar of Khagrachhari Sadar upazila this morning.

A Pabna court today sent to jail three people, including Bharara union parishad chairman, in connection with the murder of an independent chairman candidate Yasin Alam.

Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous, elder sister of Major (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan said they would be satisfied only after the execution of the verdict.

Four robbers with guns broke into the house of a lawyer in Collegepara area of Munshiganj's Sadar upazila and committed robbery early today.

Detectives arrested eight persons who allegedly tortured and robbed Shafiqul Islam, a resident physician at a Tangail hospital, and other passengers on a moving bus on January 20.

A general diary was filed by Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) Deputy Assistant Director, Sharif Uddin, as he received death threats yesterday.