A woman allegedly killed her five-year-old son and then tried to take her own life at their residence in Sirajganj Sadar upazila on Friday night.

Rab has arrested a bus driver and his helper over the death of a 10-year-old girl near the capital’s Bhatara area on Thursday.

The law ministry will write to the chief justice seeking action against Judge Mosammat Kamrunnahar for recommending police not to record any rape case after 72 hours of the incident, said Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday.

Seventeen days have passed but the law enforcers and a government probe committee are still in the dark about the 17 missing files of the health ministry, leaving the investigation shrouded in mystery.

A suspended joint director of Bangladesh Bank has been accused in a case of leaking the question paper of a recruitment tests of five state-run banks. 

A court in Tangail put a woman on two-day remand today in connection with a case filed under Digital Security Act over trying to deceive police.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said his ministry will send a letter to the chief justice to take action against Judge Mosammat Kamrunnahar for her observation -- recommending police not to register any rape case after 72 hours of the incident.

Rab arrested a bus driver and his assistant over the death of a 10-year-old girl on the street in Dhaka’s Bhatara area on November 9.

Detectives have pressed charges against two people including Rafiqul Islam Madani, widely known as "Shishu Bokta", in a case filed with Motijheel Police Station under the Digital Security Act.

A man allegedly stabbed his wife to death over a family dispute in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area early today.

A newly-elected Union Parishad member in Gaibandha Sadar upazila’s Lakshmipur union was hacked to death allegedly by his neighbour last night.

Gazipur police last night recovered a youth’s body from the Dhaka-Tangail highway area.

Police have arrested a youth for severing the left hand and three fingers of the right hand of a Khatib at Birshreshtha Jahangir Nagar Union No-1 under Babuganj upazila of Barishal yesterday evening.

A local Awami League leader was shot dead by unidentified men near his house in Mohisbathan area of Rajbari town early yesterday.

Former Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI) chief scientific officer Anwar Shahid (72) was stabbed to death on a street near Shyamoli area in the capital on Thursday evening.

Judge Mosammat Kamrunnahar, of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7, found all the five accused “not guilty” in the rape case of two university students filed with Banani Police Station on May 6, 2017.

Two Bangladeshi cattle traders were shot dead and another suffered bullet wounds as the Indian Border Security Force opened fire in the border area of Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila early yesterday, said locals.

Plainclothes men picked up a businessman from near the Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital this morning, before he was about to hold a press conference against a top DB official.

A Bogura court today sent Asadul Islam Mir Dholu, worker of a Bogura hospital, in connection with a case filed over the death of an 18-year-old after his oxygen mask was removed over not getting a "satisfactory tip".

Apan Jewellers owner’s son Shafat Ahmed and all four other accused in the Banani Raintree hotel rape case were acquitted yesterday, more than four and a half years after the incident allegedly took place.