A woman was allegedly burnt to death by her husband at Arabpur area in Jashore last night.

Detectives today arrested a man from Rajshahi city on charge of swindling Tk 7.5 lakh from a family.

A Dhaka court today directed the authorities concerned to publish advertisements in two national Bangla dailies asking Khandaker Mohtesam Hossain Babar, brother of former Awami League minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, and five others to appear before it by October 31 in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

A suspected robber was killed in a "gunfight" with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram early today.

Rab arrested eight persons on charge of involvement in human trafficking and swindling people out of lakhs in the name of providing jobs abroad.

A mobile court today jailed seven fishermen and fined 49 persons in Manikganj as they illegally caught hilsa in Jamuna river in the district's Shivalaya upazila.

Police have recovered the body of a 17-year-old female domestic worker from a flat of the capital’s Green Road last night.

The High Court yesterday refused bail to Helena Jahangir, a businessperson turned politician, in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar to eight years’ imprisonment in a corruption case.

Forty-nine cases have been filed against Abul Hashem, owner of Hashem Foods and Beverage, over the death of 51 people in a massive fire at the factory on July 8.

After raping both a mother and her daughter in Sherpur’s Nalitabari on Sunday, the perpetrators are now threatening the victim family for filing a case.

A Bangladeshi-origin man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison by an Australian court for planning a terror attack in Bangladesh, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

Police recovered the bodies of a couple from Madan upazila of Netrakona yesterday.

Jhenidah police recovered the body of a minor from Chutlia village in Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

A member of an alleged gang of robbers was killed and another seriously injured in a mob beating in Manikganj’s Shibalaya upazila early yesterday.

They used to contact patients needing kidney transplants and then find individuals in remote villages who would donate a kidney for money.

Unidentified criminals looted Tk five lakh from a motorcycle showroom in Dhaka’s Shyamoli after stabbing two staffers of the showroom this evening.

A court in Lakshmipur today sentenced a man to death in case filed for killing an eight-year-old girl after rape in Ramganj upazila of the district in 2018.

A Chattogram court today issued arrest warrants against two owners of Chittagong Ispat Group in a case filed over embezzling Tk 73.36 crore from IFIC Bank’s Agrabad branch in the port city.

An executive magistrate came under attack allegedly by a group of transport workers during a mobile court drive conducted against illegal parking of vehicles on the main road in Bhuapur upazila of Tangail today.