The High Court today cleared the way for a lower court concerned to run the trial proceedings of a case filed over forging design of FR Tower that was ravaged by fire in Dhaka’s Banani in 2019.

A Dhaka court today exempted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from personal appearance before it in the Gatco graft case.

Rab arrested three persons, including a woman, in a case filed over holding transgender beauty vlogger Saad Mua captive and blackmailing, abusing her.

A Dhaka court today granted permanent bail to former director general of Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS), Abul Kalam Azad, in a case filed over the Regent Hospital scam.

A van puller, Madhu Bagchi, was killed by unidentified miscreants last night in Bagerhat’s Fakirhat upazila.

The Supreme Court today extended for two weeks its earlier directive saying that two children, Nakano Jasmine Malika (11) and Nakano Laila Lina (9), who were brought from Japan to Bangladesh in February last year, will stay with their mother -- Japanese national Eriko Nakano.

Ariful Karim Chowdhury alias Adnan was arrested by police in 2015 over his involvement with banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji). He was then a senior officer in a private bank.

An Awami League activist was beaten and hacked to death allegedly by party rivals in Sharutia village of Shailkupa, Jhenidah, on Friday night. 

A court in Panchagarh today sent a local Swechchhasebak Dal leader to jail in connection with a case filed under Digital Security Act (DSA) -- for circulating false and defamatory information about the government and court on Facebook.

Transgender beauty vlogger Saad Mua has claimed that she was held captive by a man and a woman in Dhaka's Bashundhara residential area recently and brought allegations of blackmail, physical and verbal abuse.

Detectives arrested 10 persons, including a female upazila vice-chairman, for their alleged involvement in leaking questions and cheating with digital devices in a government recruitment test held yesterday.

A youth was stabbed to death in Dhaka’s Rayer Bazar area early today.

Prison seems to have deterred militants little as they are continuing with their malicious activities with the help of a section of unscrupulous guards.

Border Guard Bangladesh recovered about 5-kg crystal meth, also known as ice, worth about Tk 25 crore from the district’s Ukhiya upazila early yesterday.

Murdered actor Raima Islam Shimu’s husband Khandaker Shakhawat Alim Nobel and his friend Abdullah Farhad confessed that they both strangulated Shimu to death on January 16.

Nine young men of the Bede community were beaten with shoes and fined Tk 200,000 at an arbitration in Lauhajang upazila over allegations that they assaulted two villagers on January 10.

Khandaker Shakhawat Alim Nobel has given a confessional statement saying that he, along with his friend SMY Abdullah Farhad, killed his wife, film actress Raima Islam Shimu over domestic dispute, court sources said.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 5kg methamphetamine, better known as ice or crystal meth, after a gunfight with alleged drug smugglers in Cox’s Bazar early today.

The High Court yesterday cautioned the celebrities involved with controversial e-commerce platform Evaly, saying they must be conscious about their positions.

A Cox’s Bazar court yesterday placed Mohammad Shah Ali, brother of Ataullah Abu Amar Jununi, commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), on a six-day remand in three cases.