Prokash Kumar Das, medical technologist (lab) of Khulna General Hospital, has allegedly embezzled about Tk 2.58 crore collected on Covid testing fee.

Nine years after the mindless communal attacks on the Buddhist community in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar, the victims are yet to get justice as no significant progress has been made in the proceedings of cases.

A local journalist today said former officer-in-charge (OC) of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das implicated him in six criminal cases and brutally tortured him in police custody because he wrote against Pradeep’s misdeeds.  

Rohingya leader Mohibullah was shot dead by unknown criminals at his office room in Kutupalong under Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar tonight.

A female student of Dhaka University today filed a written complaint against her classmate for sexually harassing her.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today said they have taken Jahangirnagar University student Boni Amin to their office for interrogation.

The High Court today refused to grant anticipatory bail to Sayem Sobhan Anvir, managing director of Bashundhara Group, in a case filed over the rape and murder of a college student in a flat at Dhaka’s Gulshan in April this year.

Evaly CEO Mohammad Rassel and nine others have been sued in another case filed over embezzlement of Tk 70,099 through forgery.

The High Court today rejected a writ petition that sought its directive on the government to take necessary steps to prevent eavesdropping and recording of private phone conversations.

The High Court today ordered two lower court judges, who placed actress Pori Moni on remand for the second and third time in a narcotics case, to give further explanation to it about their conduct.

A Dhaka court today placed Mufti Kazi Ibrahim, an Islamic preacher known for his controversial speeches, on a two-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today arrested three people, including Sirajul Islam Rana -- COO of the e-commerce company Dhamaka -- over a case filed by a customer at Tongi West Police Station in Gazipur on charges of fraud and embezzlement.

A Jahangirnagar University student was picked up last night from Gerua area by people in plain clothes claiming to be members of Rapid Action Battalion, the student’s friends alleged.  

The headmaster of a high school was arrested in a case filed over slapping a police officer performing his duties at a mass vaccination programme centre at Sakhipur upazila in Tangail today.

A local Jubo League leader has allegedly been caught red-handed while trying to steal logs from a forest in Kulaura area of Moulvibazar.

Former Teknaf OC Pradeep Kumar Das killed an auto-rickshaw driver in the name of a “gunfight” after his family members refused to pay bribes.

Years of encroachment has left the Kaliganga, which used to be one of the most prominent rivers in the country, in its death throes. But the authorities seem to have turned a blind eye to the crime.

Shri Shri Gouri Shankar Goshala Society, an integral part of the heritage of Lalmonirhat town, is shambling with the financial crisis as a portion of its properties has been illegally occupied by a local influential, while some other portion was acquired by the government around 50 years ago.

There is a growing market for highly addictive drug crystal meth in the capital, operated mostly through encrypted messaging apps, officials have found out.

The BTRC yesterday shut down the government’s own Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha website, and other news portals like bdnews24.com and jagonews24.com for several hours as it attempted to comply with a High Court order to block all unregistered news outlets.