Police last night arrested a man for setting a 65-year-old man on fire, who died of his wounds in Khagrachhari’s Ramgarh upazila.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested the sister of journalist Kanak Sarwar early on Tuesday on charge of spreading anti-state propaganda using digital platforms.

An indigenous man was burnt to death allegedly by a settler who poured petrol on him after attacking him with a brick in Khagrachhari’s Ramgarh upazila yesterday evening.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to Abdur Rahman, deputy managing director (DMD) of AB Bank, in a fraud case.

A court here yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing a woman after rape.

Two men handed death sentence for raping and killing two girls were hanged in Jashore Central Jail. 

Police rescued five girls, of the eight who went missing from the capital’s Mirpur area, from Dhaka and Netrakona in the last two days.

Border Guard Bangladesh has arrested five suspected drug peddlers in Cox’s Bazar and seized 90,000 pieces of yaba tablets worth over Tk 2.7 crore.

The National Human Rights Commission had recommended shutting down the dens of Rajarbagh Darbar Shareef’s Pir Dillur Rahman and its branches to stop them using religion to deceive people and grab property by filing false cases.

A Dhaka court yesterday rescheduled -- for October 21 -- delivery of the verdict of a graft case filed over Tk 4 crore money laundering against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others.

Criminal Investigation Department of police arrested directors of e-commerce platforms Nirapad.com and 24tkt.Ltd in separate cases filed for embezzling money from customers.

 Former director general of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Abul Kalam Azad left a Dhaka court today without surrendering or securing bail in a case filed over Regent Hospital scam, although that was the reason behind his visit to the court.

Police have arrested Abdur Rahman, deputy managing director (DMD) of AB Bank, in a fraud case today.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Cox’s Bazar have detained five drug peddlers carrying 90,000 yaba tablets, worth over Tk 2.7 crore, yesterday.

A Dhaka court today rescheduled -- for October 21 -- delivery of the verdict of a graft case filed over Tk 4 crore money laundering against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others.

Police last night rescued two girls who went missing from the capital’s Mirpur on September 29, while two others from the same area remain missing since Friday afternoon.

The High Court has issued a contempt of court rule against Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam and its four officials for not complying with its directive regarding promoting an official.

A Dhaka court yesterday fixed October 12 to deliver the judgment of the graft case filed against former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar.

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of the Anti-Corruption Commission’s action over dropping Tangail Awami League leader M Shibly Sadik’s name from an inquiry into the Tk 27 lakh corruption allegation against him.

A Chapainawabganj court yesterday sentenced a man to life term rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a housewife in Shibganj upazila in 2018.