Police recovered the bloodstained body of a young man from a bamboo grove at Kirtipur in Jhikargacha upazila of Jashore on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Abu Huraira Mim, 35, son of Mashiar Rahman of the area, reports UNB. According to police and locals, Mim had been missing since Wedne
Police in Chattogram have detained two security guards over separate allegations of attempted rape of two children in different place of the port city. The incidents reportedly occurred on Friday afternoon in Agrabad Hajipara under Double Mooring Police Station and Mandatila under Bayezid Bostami
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 32 people in the capital’s Dhanmondi and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar areas while they were allegedly preparing to bring out “flash processions” in support of political activities-banned Awami League on Friday, police said. The arrests were made by
Charges have been pressed over the alleged rape of a toddler in Chattogram’s Bakalia, while police also plan to bring separate charges over the “mob violence” that followed the reported crime. The suspect, 30-year-old Monir Hossain, a decorator shop employee, was named a suspect
Detectives have arrested two alleged members of an organised fraud ring accused of using the names of key ministries, including the Home Ministry, to extort money by promising government officials transfers, postings and promotions. The arrestees are M Aminur Rahman Shanta, 44, and Nilufa Sultana,
At least four people, including a policeman and two journalists, were injured after police fired blank shots to disperse a crowd trying to snatch a man accused in an attempted rape case in Chattogram city on Thursday night. The incident took place in the Chairmanghata area of Bakalia, UNB reports.
A senior student at a madrasa in Rampura area of Dhaka has been arrested over allegations of rape and instigation to suicide after the death of a child. The arrestee has been identified as Md Shihab Hossain, reports bdnews24.com. According to Mohammad Harun Or Rashid, deputy police commissioner o
A housewife was allegedly slaughtered by unidentified assailants at her house in Gabtali upazila of Bogura on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Rita Rani Majumder, 45, wife of Biplab Chandra Roy of Mominhata Southpara area of the upazila, reports UNB. The victim’s husband said he wok
A Dhaka court has sentenced Bidisha Ershad, the former wife of late president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, to two years of rigorous imprisonment in a fraud case involving the sale of a residential flat. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jamshed Alam delivered the verdict on Wednesday. The prosecution's l
A fisherman has been shot dead in the Sundarbans while collecting crabs, triggering a violent attack on a Forest Department office and leaving five officials injured in retaliatory unrest. The incident took place near Shatamukhi Canal under the Khulna Range on Monday morning, Shyamnagar Police chi
Police have recovered the body of a man in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga. The family alleges that he was killed on suspicion of theft, reports bdnews24.com. The body of the young man, named Dudu Hossain, was recovered from the Bantgach Tala area adjacent to Housepur Bridge on Sunday night, said
A man was killed, and his wife was injured in an attack by burglars who broke into their house by cutting through the mud wall in the Madhya Maheshwaripur area of Maheshwaripur union in Koyra upazila of Khulna early Monday. The deceased, Bhabatosh Mridha, was a local businessman. He ran a pharmacy
Police have recovered the bodies of a couple and their 8-month-old child from the house of a relative in Madaripur. The three bodies were recovered late on Sunday night in the town’s Amirabad, according to Abul Kalam Azad, chief of Madaripur Sadar Model Police Station. The dead have been id
