A journalist received a death threat allegedly from some sand extractors in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila early yesterday when he took a video of illegal sand extraction from the Teesta river.

The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested Md Shafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Bhanga Police Station in Faridpur, for allegations of crimes against humanity.

A man was killed and another was injured in a fire at a building in Dhaka’s New Eskaton area early yesterday.

Despite being in power for the last seven months, the interim government has yet to initiate legal proceedings in the case filed over the murder of Tanwir Muhammad Taqi in Narayanganj, said speakers at a rally yesterday.

Residents of Chattogram city are living amid fear and insecurity as incidents of mugging and robbery have been on the rise over the past few months

They also alleged that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina had deliberately stalled the investigation and trial for her own interests

The Coast Guard’s West Zone has arrested the notorious leader of the Sundarbans-based pirate gang Hannan Bahini, along with six of his associates, during an operation at the Rampal ferry terminal in Bagerhat

A team of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested two men in connection with a case filed over raping a woman in Narayanganj

Police recovered three crude bombs near the venue of a BNP rally scheduled for tomorrow in Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj upazila

Police have arrested four suspected criminals in connection with a robbery of school picnic buses in Tangail’s Ghatail upazila

Law enforcers have detained at least 20 people, including drug dealers, after a attack on a cop at Kawran Bazar in the capital

A Dhaka court today sentenced Bismillah Group Managing Director Khaza Soleiman Anwar Chowdhury, his wife and group's Chairman Nawrin Hasib and six others to 12 years’ rigorous imprisonment in absentia in a case filed over laundering Tk124.82crore from Jamuna Bank Ltd.

A Dhaka court today issued a travel ban on Mohammad Adnan Imam, former chairman of NRB Commercial Bank, for his alleged involvement in share market manipulation and money laundering.

More 256 arrested in capital

Police have arrested five people in connection with the gang rape of a teenage girl in Phulbari upazila of Kurigram

The Judicial Magistrate Court sent them to jail after the two were produced before the court in the afternoon

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday allowed Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam to move an appeal before this court challenging his death penalty for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Four Union Parishad chairmen of Jamalpur, who also hold positions in the local Awami League, attended a law and order committee meeting in Melandaha upazila yesterday.

As Salman F Rahman was brought to a courtroom of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) Court of Dhaka from its lockup yesterday, his hands were cuffed behind his back.

Three days after the armed robbery and shooting in Banasree, law enforcers have yet to arrest anyone, prompting protests by locals and jewellery traders demanding immediate action.