Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has pressed charges against Regent Group Chairperson Mohammad Shahed and Managing Director Masud Parvez, in a case filed over possessing fake notes worth Tk 1.14 lakh.

A woman yesterday finally got justice, 10 long years after her rape and enforced abortion.

Journalist Golam Sarwar, who was abducted on October 29 and discovered four days later, yesterday filed a case with the port city’s Kotwali Police Station accusing six unidentified people.

Over 350 people who used to live in Kalyanpur’s Notun Bazar slum, which was burned down in a devastating fire on October 30, are now spending their days under the open sky.

Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants yesterday expressed grave concern about the wretched conditions of several hundred Bangladeshis currently stranded in different locations near the Croatia-Bosnia border.

Health researchers in Chattogram have initiated a project to analyse antibodies of the district’s residents who had tested positive for Covid-19.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday said the auto-pass in the education system would make the future of students uncertain.

News of the death of one Rayhan Ahmed (33) allegedly due to police torture at an outpost in Sylhet broke last month, with medical evidence later affirming that he was assaulted in custody and died of his injuries.

An expert committee formed by the University Grants Commission yesterday opined that it will not be wise to arrange online university admission test using a software, developed by a university VC.

The man who pretended to be the grandson of Nawab Salimullah Khan, joined Muslim League in 2018. As proof of identity, he submitted his passport and national identity (NID) card, in which his name was Nawab Khawaja Ali Hasan Askari.

With an aim to stop narcotics smuggling, Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) wants to have round-the-clock presence of their dog squad at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Powertech International, a supplier of power plant equipment itself prepared required specification for motors and quoted twelve times higher rate for the Shikalbaha Power Plant, yet the procurement department of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) awarded the tender to them, the Anti-Corruption Commission has found.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the mystery of jail killing on November 3, 1975 should be unearthed to let the new generation know the truth.

Two more victims, injured in an explosion at a scrapped goods shop in Mohammadpur last week, succumbed to their injuries at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery yesterday.

The director of the Institute of Public Health (IPH) Dr Abdur Rahim has been made officer on special duty (OSD) along with the director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital on different allegations.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) members have arrested a man from Dhaka’s Banasree area for circulating fake news on Facebook.

Three people were killed after they were hit by separate trains in Moghbazar rail crossing and Cantonment Railway Station in the capital today.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday found Aedes mosquito larvae at 94 houses and establishments during the first day of an operation to destroy the breeding grounds.

Two people were killed and two injured as a truck and a covered-van collided head-on on Bonpara-Hatikumrul highway at Khalkula in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj early yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail petitions of seven bodyguards of expelled Jubo League leader GK Shamim, a top contractor of government projects, in a money laundering case.