Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives have arrested 10 suspected muggers along with sharp weapons from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur and Adabor areas. The arrestees were Mehedi alias Mehedi, 28, Md Mainuddin 22, Md Sharif alias Mohon, 30, Md Moin Ali, 20, Ahmed Amit, 22, Md Masum,
A court in Dhaka has issued a warrant for arrest of actress Pori Moni in a case filed over allegations of attempted murder. The court of Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate issued the warrant on Sunday while framing charges against the actress in a case filed by businessman Nasir Uddin Mah
A 22-year-old student of Khulna University was shot dead by miscreants at Tetultala in Khulna city on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Arnab Kumar Sarkar, an MBA student of Business Administration faculty of the university and son of Nitish Kumar Sarkar of Basupara area in the city. Q
Police arrested eight alleged muggers and a wanted criminal during separate raids in the capital's Uttara and Paltan areas on Friday. A team of police from Uttara West Police Station arrested the eight identified as Md Nurul Amin (22), Sakib Hossain (21), Md Parvez Ahmed Jewel (38), Md Kabir Hossa
Police arrested on Friday a Chhatra Dal leader for allegedly injuring a businessman during an attack at Elephant Road in the capital recently. The arrestee was identified as Mohammad Hossain alias Mithun (30). The followers of Mithun also tried to resist the police vehicle while carrying him (Mit
Robbers have allegedly made off with Tk 400,000 and over 800 g of gold after ambushing a jewellery trader in the Beribadh area of Dhaka’s Hazaribagh. Police say a gang of seven to eight robbers on five motorcycles ambushed the trader, shot him in the leg, and fled with his bag of gold. Thir
A Dhaka court has remanded ex-state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Atiqul Islam, former lawmaker Sadek Khan, and former DNCC councillor Salimullah Solu once again for different terms. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate GM Farhan Ishtiaq passed the order a
Jurisdiction of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Dhaka to try crimes committed during the July-August uprising has been challenged. Lawyers of former Director General of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) Major General Ziaul Ahsan, who is an accused in a case filed o
A court in Natore has sentenced two men to 10 years in jail each for sexually harassing a minor girl and persuading her to commit suicide in Natore Sadar upazila around 20 years back. Judge of Natore Women and Children Repression and Prevention Tribunal Muhammad Abdur Rahim also fined Tk 50,000 ea
Police arrested six persons as they were preparing to commit robbery and snatching during separate raids in Shahbagh and Sadarghat areas in the capital on Thursday night. Acting on a tip-off, a mobile team of Shahbagh police station nabbed three robbers while they were taking preparation for robbe
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in the capital on Thursday directed the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) and the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to preserve all digital data of the July-August mass uprising last year. A tribunal bench headed by
Police recovered the bodies of two elderly men from the Dakatia River in two separate locations in Chandpur on Wednesday. One of the deceased was identified as Sirajul Islam Gazi, 72, son of the late Ashraf Ali Gazi of Bagadi village of Chandpur Sadar Upazila. The other man's identity remains unk
A 50-year-old man was beaten and hacked to death by unknown miscreants in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenaidah district on Wednesday. The deceased was Kawsar Ali, son of late Lutfor Laskar of Chandpara village in Elangi union of the upazila, and an accused in a case over the killing of Jamaat-e-Islam
