Two people, including a Jubo League leader, were killed and at least 10 others injured in violence in Bhola and Tangail yesterday over union parishad polls.

Police recovered 37 crude bombs from a village in Sharsha upazila of Jashore early today.

Two men have been arrested in a case filed for raping a girl at Chougachha upazila of Jashore last night.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion today arrested the Dhaka South City Corporation cleaner Md Harun Mia in connection with the death of Notre Dame College student Nayeem Hasan.        

Two suspected Rohingya robbers were killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion near a Rohingya camp in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar early today.

A union parishad chairman of Dhaka's Savar has been suspended on  charges of corruption and arbitrariness.

The government yesterday (November 25) made a big reshuffle in the lower judiciary by appointing 97 new judges, promoting 65 joint district judges and transferring 388 others across the country.

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) yesterday presented a 16-point recommendation to stop violence against women and girls, in observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

“Nayeem wanted to ensure justice for all by becoming a judge,” said a weeping Shah Alam, father of the Notre Dame College student who died under a DSCC compactor vehicle on Wednesday.

As school and college students poured onto the streets in a repeat act of the 2018 road safety protests after Wednesday’s accident, another city corporation garbage truck hit and killed a commuter yesterday.

Evaly had about Tk 2.1 crore left in its 36 bank accounts until August last year, said the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) in its report to the High Court yesterday.

Another accused in the Cumilla’s double-murder case was arrested yesterday.

A man was arrested in connection with the gang rape of a thread factory worker in Chattogram, while a 50-year-old woman was allegedly raped in her house at knifepoint in Satkhira yesterday.

A Gopalganj court yesterday sentenced five people to death for killing a teenager in 2013.

A policeman, who was injured in an attack by fishermen while enforcing a ban on hilsa fishing in October, died at a city hospital on Wednesday night.

The High Court yesterday deferred the verdict on a petition filed challenging the legality of actor Pori Moni’s multiple remands in a narcotics case till the first week of January.

Police on Wednesday night recovered bodies of a woman and child from Deshipara area of Gazipur Sadar upazila.

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court, seeking its directive on the authorities concerned, to give Tk 10 crore as compensation to the family of university student, Sehrin Mahbub Sadia, who died after falling into an open roadside drain in Chattogram city in September.

The law ministry yesterday brought change to the lower judiciary by appointing 97 new judges, promoting 65 joint district judges and transferring 388 others across the country.

Amnesty International today urged Bangladeshi authorities to immediately release Dipti Rani Das, a 17-year-old girl, who has been languishing at a correctional facility since October 28 last year for a Facebook post.