A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 126 people, including 85 expelled students of Dhaka University, in a case filed over their alleged involvement in leaking question papers of the university’s “Gha” unit admission test in 2017.

Two Swechhasebak League leaders were shot in a drive-by shooting allegedly by a former member of the same organisation in Malgram area of Bogura town on Sunday night.

A newborn girl was stolen from the gynaecology department of Dinajpur Sadar Hospital this afternoon, only five hours after birth.

The High Court today expressed dissatisfaction over a Noakhali court for not properly examining the relevant evidence and documents while delivering a death sentence to the accused in a double murder case.

A total of 3,703 incidents of torture and sexual violence against women and minor girls took place in different areas across the country last year, Bangladesh Mahila Parishad revealed today.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its directive on the government to conduct a judicial inquiry into the gang-rape of a tourist in Cox’s Bazar on December 22 last year.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against 126 people, including 87 expelled students of Dhaka University, in a case filed against them for their alleged involvement in question paper leak of the university’s Gha unit admission test in 2017.

The Supreme Court today directed 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 -- till January 23.

Two local Swechchhasebak League leaders were shot in an attack allegedly carried out by their rivals over previous enmity at Dabtola area under Bogura Sadar upazila in Bogura yesterday night.

The family of a man who died after being detained by Rab in Gazipur’s Tongi on Saturday has alleged that the law enforcement officials tortured him to death.

A group of youths have been accused in a case on charges of gang-raping two girls from the Garo community in Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh.

A 16-year-old was tortured to death, allegedly by her husband, in Kalia upazila of Narail yesterday.

A youth was killed by miscreants early today in Rajfulbaria area of Savar.

Newly appointed Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique today issued a warning against corruption and irregularities.

Police have recovered bodies of a woman and her daughter from their house in Melandah municipality area of Jamalpur last night.

Raw beef packed in polythene bags were hung on the doors of three Hindu temples and a house in Gendukuri village of Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila in the early hours of Friday.

A case was filed today over gang-rape of a housewife at gun point in Noakhali’s Sadar upazila on Thursday.

Dead body of a Bangladeshi was recovered from the no man’s land inside the Bangladesh border at Kalairag in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila this afternoon.

Security has been beefed up in Dhaka following a bomb attack threat by Islamic State (IS) over new year celebrations in Muslim majority countries.

Police last night arrested five people on charges of raping a woman in Dhaka’s Uttara area on December 25.