In the 11 months since the uprising on August 5, the Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a total of 399 cases, averaging about 36.27 cases per month. These cases named 1,264 individuals as accused, including 243 government employees, accounting for 27.13 percent of the total.

Protests were held on campuses and in some districts last night demanding swift trial and exemplary punishment for those involved in the brutal murder of Lal Chand, alias Sohag, in Old Dhaka’s Mitford area.

"They've orphaned my two children… I want all of them to be hanged."

Unidentified assailants shot dead a former Jubo Dal leader in front of his house in Khulna city yesterday afternoon.

The accused is a resident of Malda Paschimpara village under North 24 Parganas

Two of the arrestees are Mahmudul Hasan Mohin, 41, and Tarek Rahman Robin, 22

A garment worker was stabbed to death by a group of robbers at Tongi Bazar flyover in Gazipur on the Dhaka–Mymensingh highway early yesterday, said police.

Alamgir Hossain had nearly lost all hope. For 42 days, he and fellow Bangladeshi migrant Siraj Uddin were held hostage in a Libyan hideout -- shackled, beaten, and starved by human traffickers demanding ransom from their families in Bangladesh.

Police recovered 11 dismembered body parts of a woman from a flat in Chattogram’s Raufabad area early yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to take steps for freezing and confiscating foreign assets owned by S Alam Group Chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam, his wife Farzana Parveen, their children, and one son-in-law in Singapore.

An Indian man earlier this month appealed to authorities in Assam to help find his elderly mother, who has remained missing since she was allegedly pushed into Bangladesh by the Border Security Force (BSF).

Economist Prof Abul Barkat was arrested in the capital last night in a case filed with the Anti-Corruption Commission.

The BNP yesterday urged the Election Commission to swiftly complete all preparations for the election and ensure a conducive environment for it.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday framed charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two of her former top aides in a case related to the crimes against humanity during the July uprising.

ICT prosecutor hints

The Jamaat leader said this while addressing a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka this afternoon.

Tk 1,000cr defamation case filed with Senior Judicial Magistrate Court

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 53 bank accounts of S Alam Group Chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam, his family members, and his beneficiaries over corruption allegations.

The Awami League must be brought to justice as its chief, deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, is solely responsible for the killings of thousands of people, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday.

A Cumilla court yesterday placed all eight accused in the Muradnagar triple murder case on three-day remands.