The High Court yesterday issued arrest warrants for 14 loan defaulters of People’s Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (PLFSL), a troubled non-bank financial institution, as they neither refunded the borrowed money nor contacted its board members despite the court’s earlier directive.

Detectives have arrested the prime accused -- driver of a lorry -- in a case filed over the death of a Green University student in a road accident in Dhaka on December 4.

The High Court today issued arrest warrants against 14 loan defaulters from People's Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (PLFSL), a troubled non-bank financial institution, as they have neither refunded the borrowed sum nor communicated to its board members, despite its earlier directive.

A Chattogram court today sentenced five robbers to life in prison in a case filed for raping four women of an expatriate family during a robbery in Karnafuli upazila of the district in 2017.

Four school students have been abducted, allegedly by two Rohingyas, in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Detectives have arrested the prime accused -- driver of a lorry -- in connection with a case filed over the death of a Green University student in a road accident in Dhaka on December 4.

The High Court today commuted the jail sentence of Harunur Rashid, BNP lawmaker of Chapainawabganj-3, from five years’ imprisonment to the period of imprisonment he has already served in a corruption case filed for tax evasion during import of a luxury car.

A Rajshahi court today sentenced nine people to death and 22 to life imprisonment in the murder case of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader, Shahen Shah.

Twenty Buet students were sentenced to death yesterday for their direct involvement in the murder of a fellow student in a dorm room, an incident that shocked the nation two years ago.

The Daily Star talked to several current and former university teachers after a Dhaka court yesterday convicted 25 Buet students, who were also involved with the Chhatra League, for killing their peer Abrar Fahad in October 2019.

The parents of slain Buet student Abrar Fahad said they do not want to see anyone else being killed by fellow students on university campuses like their son was.

October 6 evening, 2019.

A lawyer filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging the legality of Murad Hasan’s Jatiya Sangsad membership yesterday.

A sub-inspector of the Detective Branch of Khulna Metropolitan Police was arrested yesterday over raping a woman.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked the Police Bureau of Investigation to submit its report by December 28 in the case filed over the rape and murder of college student Munia.

A schoolgirl in Cox’s Bazar has been raped allegedly by two Rohingya youths in the district town.

Police yesterday arrested four people, including three leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), in connection with a case for beating a Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader to death in Joypurhat’s Panchbibi upazila on Tuesday.

The High Court yesterday formed a three-member committee headed by Rangpur’s district and sessions judge to conduct inquiry into the alleged custodial death of one Tajul Islam last month.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) Vice Chancellor Prof Satya Prasad Majumder demanded swift execution of the Abrar murder case verdict yesterday.

Members of Coast Guard have seized two tonnes of jatka (young hilsa) from Machghat area of Baro Station in Chandpur today.