Journalists across districts demand justice

Couple picked up after husband fails to repay loan, case statement says

Police recovered the dismembered body of an unidentified person from an abandoned travel bag in Tongi yesterday morning.

A trader was stabbed to death by assailants at his shop in Moulvibazar town on Thursday evening.

Former secretary ABM Abdus Sattar yesterday alleged that several advisers of the government are involved in widespread corruption. Although he indicated one or two ministries, he did not mention any specific names. However, he claimed to have evidence to support his allegations.

Three men were arrested and sent to jail yesterday in a case filed over the rape of a college student and her teenage niece in Rajbari’s Goalanda upazila.

“Bring back my son alive, my heart, my beloved one,” cried 90-year-old Hasan Jamal, father of slain journalist Asaduzzaman Tuhin, 40, as relatives and neighbours gathered around him.

Four people were arrested yesterday in connection with a case over the murder of a journalist in front of a crowded market in Chandana Chowrasta of Gazipur on Thursday night.

707 cases filed with 50 police stations across the capital

Detainees claim traffickers promised jobs in India, took their money and phones before abandoning them

Police say it was a toy; man in video already in jail over separate charges

A local BNP leader's son was detained by joint forces in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila last night for allegedly demanding extortion money from traders and assaulting a village policeman.

The prosecution yesterday urged the International Crimes Tribunal-2 to indict 16 people, including a former Awami League lawmaker and a former Dhaka range DIG, for their alleged involvement in the killing of seven people during the July uprising in Ashulia.

The High Court yesterday scrapped the proceedings of a case filed against internationally acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam. The case was filed under the controversial section 57 of the ICT Act, 2006 in which he was behind the bar for 107 days.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque to jail yesterday on completion of his seven-day remand in a case filed over manipulation of the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system.

The High Court yesterday acquitted expelled Jubo League leader Golam Kibria Shamim, widely known as GK Shamim, and his seven bodyguards from a money laundering case in which he was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by a lower court.

A group of miscreants killed a journalist with sharp weapons in front of a crowded market in the Chandana Chowrasta area of Gazipur city last night.

Anwar Hossain Sourav, 35, a staff reporter for the daily Bangladesher Alo, was attacked in broad daylight, reportedly in front of police

The prosecution yesterday submitted formal charges at the International Crimes Tribunal against five former police officials, including Habibur Rahman, ex-commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), in a case filed over crimes against humanity committed in the capital’s Rampura during the July uprising.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed the wife of an army major on a five-day remand in a case over a “secret meeting” allegedly involving members of the Awami League and its banned student wing Chhatra League.