Police arrested an alleged listed criminal and drug trader from the capital’s Banani area early Thursday. They also recovered a foreign-made pistol, yaba tablets and cash from his possession, UNB reports. The arrestee was identified as Zahidul Islam, 31. Quoting Banani Police Station
A case has been filed after a man dragged a student into a bush on the Jahangirnagar University campus and attempted to rape her. He is suspected of being an outsider to the campus. The university administration says that the incident took place after 11:00 pm on Tuesday in an area near the newly
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have come under attack while gathering intelligence on drug traffickers in Natore. The incident occurred in Nabinagar of Lalpur’s Ishwardi at 9:30 pm on Tuesday, said Lalpur Police chief Md Shafiqul Islam. Police later rescued five injured RAB per
Police have arrested a man after the body of a four-and-a-half-year-old child was recovered from a pond in Sylhet. The man was a cousin of the girl’s father and a neighbour to the family. Police say Zakir Hossain, 35, has confessed to killing the child after a failed attempt to rape her, rep
A tribunal has sentenced three people to death and six others, including a former union chairman, to life imprisonment for the killing of village doctor Rezaul Karim, aka Abu Doctor, in Rajbari’s Goalanda nearly seven years ago. Judge Md Rahibul Islam of Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-1
A man and his son were stabbed to death, allegedly by two of his sons from his second marriage, over a dispute over property in the Mondolpara area of Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Dulu Mia, 70, and his son Kabil, 30. Another son, Habil, was i
The High Court on Monday deferred until May 14 the delivery of its order on bail petitions filed by Chinmoy Krishna Das, suspended ISKCON leader and spokesperson for the Bangladesh Sammilito Sanatani Jagran Jote, in four cases. The HC bench of Justice KM Zahid Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Abu Taher p
A drug-addicted youth allegedly stabbed his mother to death after she refused to give him money for drugs at Dilpur village in Daganbhuiyan Upazila of Feni district on Sunday night. The accused, Mosharraf Hossain Rafi, 21, also attacked his father and sister, leaving them injured. The deceased wa
A Mymensingh court on Sunday convicted three siblings and sentenced them to life imprisonment for killing a man in 2008. Judge Farzana Ahmed of the Mymensingh Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-4 handed down the punishment. The convicts are Shahbaz Mia, 58, Md Rafiqul Islam, 53, and Han
A 55-year-old man was beaten to death in an attack over a financial dispute at Shankarchandra area in Sadar upazila of Chuadanga district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Alim Uddin, son of Jharu Mondal of Shankarchandra village, reports UNB. Quoting the victim’s brother Kalu Monda
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has brought back a murder suspect from Dubai with the help of Interpol and arrested him. Arif Sarkar, 40, was extradited on Wednesday, three years after the murder, a media statement said. Arif was named in the murder case filed over the shooting of Shibpu
Police have arrested three people, including a university student and web developer, over allegations of collecting and selling citizens’ national ID and mobile financial services account information. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) disclosed the arrests in a statement on Thursda
A court has allowed police to question Aman Ullah Sagar, a madrasa teacher in Netrokona’s Madan Upazila, in their custody following his arrest in the rape case of an 11-year-old female student. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohsina Islam of the Netrokona Cognisance Court granted a thr
