A Dhaka court has sentenced five robbers to death over the killing of an autorickshaw driver in Keraniganj following a robbery around six years ago. ABM Ashfaq-Ul-Haque of the Dhaka Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-1 delivered the verdict on Thursday. The convicts are gang leader Sohe
A court in Dhaka on Thursday placed former Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) official Major (Retd) Manjil Haider Chowdhury on a fresh three-day remand in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act over a flash procession by the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Awami League
A Dhaka court has sent a woman to jail along with her three children following her arrest with 30 kg of cannabis. Her eldest son, a teenager, was sent to a juvenile correction centre. Metropolitan Magistrate Kamal Uddin ordered Lucky Akter to be sent to Kashimpur Central Jail on Wednesday. As th
Amid conflicting statements from the administration's top brass over reported militancy in Bangladesh, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) says it does not see “any danger” - at least for now. In a press briefing in the force’s Media Centre in Dhaka on Tuesday, RAB-2 Commander Addit
A female foreign national has allegedly been beaten to death in the Gulshan area of Dhaka. Her body was taken to the Continental Hospital on Tuesday morning, reports bdnews24.com. The deceased woman has been identified as 67-year-old Shameem Salim Kashim. She resided in a house in Baridhara&rsquo
A man has died at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) after being shot by unidentified assailants in Raozan. The victim, identified only as Nasir, passed away on Sunday night while receiving treatment at the medical facility, according to Sub-Inspector Nure Alam Ashek of the CMCH Police Out
Police have recovered the bodies of a father near the rail track and his son from his home at the Bonomala area in Gazipur’s Tongi. The two bodies were recovered from the area early on Sunday, said Tongi East Police Station chief Mehedi Hasan. The dead were identified as Md Sohel Hossain, 5
An NGO worker was hacked and robbed of around Tk 100,000 by alleged muggers in Durgapur municipality of Rajshahi district on Thursday afternoon. The incident occurred in the Singa Paschimpara area under the municipality. Injured Shahinur Rahman, 29, son of Shahjahan Ali of Buriganj area in Shibga
Unidentified assailants have entered the house and hacked to death a SSC examinee in Dhamrai Municipality area in Dhaka, police say. The incident took place in Lakuriapara Mohalla on Thursday evening, said Dhamrai Police Station chief Nazmul Huda. The victim, Nahida Akhter, 16, was appearing for
Police have recovered the bodies of three young men from a remote hilly area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar. The deceased were identified as Md Mijub, Nurul Bashar and Robiul Awal, residents of the locality, reports bdnews24.com. Inspector Durjoy Biswas of the Baharchhara Investigation Ce
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained five suspects, including the alleged mastermind, in the stabbing of a doctor near the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital in Dhaka’s Mohakhali. In a statement on Tuesday, the elite force said the suspects were detained within 24 ho
A caretaker of a textile mill has been hacked to death on the Narsingdi-Madanganj road. The incident is believed to have taken place on Monday night near Bridge No. 5 on the road, said Narsingdi Model Police chief ARM Al-Mamun. The victim, Mujibur Rahman, 55, hailed from the Birampur area of Madha
The bodies of four members of the same family have been found with their throats slit in Naogaon’s Niamatpur. The incident occurred in the Upazila’s Bahadurpur village, according to Niamatpur Police chief Mahbubur Rahman. At 9:00 am, he said, “A couple and their two children hav
