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
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
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
A policeman has been arrested for allegedly possessing 50,000 yaba pills near the Shah Amanat Bridge in Bakalia of Chattogram city. Identified as Ashiqul Islam, the 30-year-old arrestee is posted at Khulna District Police. Bakalia Police caught him early Tuesday morning near the bridge in the Bas
A court in Dhaka on Tuesday sent to jail Lamin Islam, the prime accused in a case filed over the abduction of a schoolgirl from her father in the city’s Uttara area. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi passed the order as police produced Lamin before the court after the end of
A new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) has urged governments worldwide to make lifelong learning a central pillar of economic and social policy, warning that failure to act could deepen inequalities amid rapid global transformations. The report, “Lifelong Learning and Sk
