A court in Natore has sentenced four people, including a woman, to life imprisonment for strangling a farmer to death in Baraigram Upazila. Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Delwar Hossain delivered the verdict on Sunday afternoon in the presence of the suspects, Public Prosecutor Ru
A suspect in the brutal lynching of Tofazzal Hossain at a Dhaka University’s hall has fled the court premises after submitting a bail petition following his surrender. Rashed Kamal Anik, a student of the Department of Soil, Water, and Environment, had his lawyer move the bail plea in Dhaka M
A local leader of Sramik League was gunned down by unidentified miscreants in Mollahat upazila of Bagerhat on Saturday night. The deceased is Sohag Sheikh, 40, general secretary of the Upazila Sramik League and son of Daud Ali Sheikh from Udaypur village in Mollahat Sadar, UNB reports. Sources sa
A 14-year-old boy died in a hospital after being attacked by a local teen gang in Sherpur on Saturday. Sajib Mia, son of farmer Farhan Mia from Bibirchar village in Talki Union of Nokla Upazila, died at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital at 3:30 pm, UNB reports. He had been fighting for
Police arrested twenty-one people during a special operation in Jatrabari area of the capital on Friday over their alleged involvement in various criminal activities. The arrestees were identified as Salia Akter alias Sharmin Sultana alias Sudha, 32, Hridoy Khandaker alias Erison Hridoy, 25, Rubel
A Jamalpur court has sentenced three people to death for the gang rape of a woman after tying up her husband. Judge Mohammad Abdur Rahim of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict on Wednesday afternoon. He also fined each of the death row convicts Tk 100,000.
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced a man to six months in jail in a case filed over killing his neighbour’s pet cat in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area. The convict, Akbar Hossain Shiblu, was tried in absentia. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Al Biruni Mir handed down the judgment. The court
Police recovered the body of a 36-year-old woman from a septic tank at Raninagar-Hatatpara in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Nasima Begum, wife of Mizanur Rahman. Police arrested Mizanur Rahman in this connection, said Additional Superint
A man who was hacked by rivals at Shantibagh Bhangari Gali under Shahjahanpur police station on Monday night died early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Sikandar Mia, 32, an auto-rickshaw owner, reports UNB. Sikandar’s elder brother, Amir Ali, said his brother was returning home thro
Police have arrested two suspects after a college student from Dhaka was allegedly raped on board a launch. The incident occurred on the Farhan-04 launch the night of Mar 8, after the vessel set off from Dhaka from the Tamruddin Launch Dock in Noakhali’s Hatia Upazila, said Shah Md Faisal Ah
The joint forces have launched raids in Chattogram’s Jungle Salimpur to detain criminals. Chattogram Additional Superintendent of Police Russell said the operation began on Monday morning. On January 19, Nayek Subedar Motaleb Hossain Bhuiyan, a member of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), wa
Two youths have been sentenced to five days’ simple imprisonment for threatening an on duty police member during a footpath eviction drive in Jatrabari area of the capital. The punishment was handed down by the Special Metropolitan Magistrate Court of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, UNB repor
A Jamaat-e-Islami activist has been killed during a violent clash with BNP supporters over the appointment of an Imam for Eid-ul-Fitr prayers in Mohanpur upazila of Rajshahi. The incident took place around 8:00 pm on Saturday at Sakua, according to Mohanpur Police Chief SM Moinuddin. The dead was
