A local BNP leader and his mother sustained bullet injuries when a group of armed miscreants entered their house in Ward No. 2 of Sarafbhata Union at around 8:30 pm on Sunday and opened fire indiscriminately. The injured BNP leader is Engineer Osman Gani,42, Sarafbhata Union BNP General Secr
Thirty-three Bangladeshis have returned home through the Benapole check post after serving three years in jail in India. They were handed over to the Bangladesh immigration authorities at Benapole on Sunday evening. Officer-in-charge of Benapole Immigration Police, Syed Mortaza, said they went to
A 21-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by some young men over a trifling matter at Berabari Dighir intersection in Mohonpur upazila of Rajshahi district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Sabbir, 21, a grocery shop owner and son of Alamgir of the area, reports UNB. Modasser Khan,
A schoolboy has been knifed to death in Hatirjheel’s Madhubagh in the capital while hanging out with friends on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr. The victim, 17-year-old Md Rabbi, was a 10th grader at Anjuman High School in Moghbazar. Sub-Inspector (SI) Partha Sarathi Das of Hatirjheel Police Station
A Dhaka court on Friday sent former councillor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Ward-30 Abul Kashem alias Hasu to jail in a case filed over an alleged attempt to murder one Mahfuzul Haque in the capital’s Adabor area during the July Mass Uprising. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nazmin A
Police have arrested five people in connection with the shooting and stabbing to death of a college student in the Central Shaheed Minar area of Dhaka. The pistol used in the murder has also been recovered from one of them, said Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police
Police rescued an eight-year-old boy and arrested his father and an accomplice over an abduction and ransom case in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga. The victim, Siam, was recovered safely during a night raid on Tuesday. He used to live at his maternal grandparents’ house, as his mother lives
Police have arrested three people, including a madrasa superintendent, after a 10-year-old girl was raped in Kushtia’s Bheramama Upazila. She is currently being treated at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH). Bheramama Police chief Md Zahedur Rahman sai
A court on Monday sent the husband of a Jahangirnagar University student to jail in connection with her killing in Savar and fixed March 24 for the hearing on a five-day remand plea. Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Ayesha Siddika passed the order after a hearing, said SI Biswajit Debnath of the p
A youth was killed in a shooting and stabbing near Shaheed Minar on Sunday night, reportedly over a past enmity. The deceased was identified as Rakib, 25, son of Khokon Mia of Shibbari Staff Quarters, reports UNB. The incident occurred around 9:30 pm when three to four youths allegedly shot Rakib
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
