The High Court today asked the government to prepare a list of all rivers across the country and make an action plan to make those free from encroachers.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against nine people, including Mohammedan Sporting Club director (in-charge) M Lokman Hossain Bhuiyan, in a Tk 28.61 crore money laundering case.

Police have detained a school student who was allegedly driving a private car recklessly and hit a rickshaw on Dhaka’s Baily Road -- leaving a man and his six-month old injured.

Police yesterday arrested three hijackers accused of killing an a2i (Access to Information in Bangladesh) project official Abdul Barek Sheikh (44) in Munshiganj's Tongibari upazila.

The high court today ruled that the two Japanese children of Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif and Japanese citizen Nakano Eriko will remain with their father.

A Dhaka court today again asked the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit -- by December 8 -- the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director, Sayem Sobhan Anvir, and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka's Gulshan.

Police last night arrested a man for raping and killing a six-year-old in Jashore's Bagherpara upazila.

An auto-rickshaw driver was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants at Savar's Moddho Rajashon area last night.

A man was arrested yesterday in Chattogram for raping a garments worker, while a case was filed against another in Narayanganj on charge of raping a madrasa student.

A Narayanganj court yesterday sent a journalist to jail in connection with a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology Act.

Three teenage sisters who fled from their aunt’s house Dhaka’s Adabor, have been handed over to their paternal grandmother.

For the longest river in the country, the Brahmaputra is in quite the awful state. Years of rampant river grabbing and sand lifting has put its existence in such a crisis that even its tributaries are in danger today.

A three-member gang from Muktagacha of Mymensingh that has been embezzling lakhs of taka by baiting people with fancy gadgets at low prices on bikroy.com has been nabbed by the police.

A man was shot dead allegedly by his brother-in-law in Dhaka’s Darussalam area this morning.

Eleven days after she was raped, a grade-VIII student ended her life in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat on Thursday night.

Members of the Detective Branch (DB) have arrested three more persons in a case filed for leaking the question paper of a recruitment test of five state-owned banks.

She was only five years old when she went missing.

Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, the state minister for shipping, yesterday said in parliament that around 21,443 illegal structures have so far been removed from the banks of different rivers of the country and some 723.62 acres of shore land have been recovered.

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested a tractor driver who had allegedly gang raped a schoolgirl along with others in Tangail.

Police arrested a female drugs trader, who has 51 cases filed against her, in Buddhimanpara of Chuadanga town Wednesday evening.