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
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
