Police say case filed based on victim's complaint; accused to be produced before court today

Police say the woman died at the scene, while her mother later died at DMCH

The Daily Star explores the trafficking routes, the threats and the impacts of drug abuse. The second instalment looks at how drugs are used as a currency for illicit cross-border trade.

From the outside, the ageing two-storey building inside the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-1 headquarters in Uttara appears almost idyllic.

A Jamaat-e-Islami activist on Friday was shown arrested in a case over the sexual harassment of a nine-year-old girl in Rajshahi’s Paba upazila.

Police yesterday found no explosives or hazardous materials in two suspicious bags recovered from Mirpur-10 Metro Rail Station and near Farmgate Metro Rail Station in Dhaka.

Victims' family alleges spinal injury; local residents protest as police launch investigation

Prosecution says site visit is necessary as victims were allegedly detained and tortured there

Police yesterday recovered a bomb concealed inside a pressure cooker and wrapped in black adhesive tape from a locked bag left outside a grocery shop in Ashulia.

A man was shot dead by criminals in the Khulna city early yesterday.

The human rights situation in Bangladesh remained concerning in July, with increases in attacks on journalists, rape cases, recovery of unidentified bodies and some forms of violence, according to a monthly report by the Manabadhikar Shongskriti Foundation (MSF). I

CID investigation uncovers alleged racket supplying proxy candidates in exchange for money

The force says it seized 1,968 tablets, raw materials and drug-making equipment during a raid

Police safely destroyed the device in a controlled explosion and are examining CCTV footage to identify the man who left the bag

Locally known as 'Pagla Shahjahan', Ismail was accused in police assault and murder cases, police say

In a harrowing deposition before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday, a former commanding officer of Rab-8 testified that he witnessed blindfolded detainees being executed, their stomachs slit, and their bodies dumped into the sea --  an execution practice known internally as “elimination” that intended to leave no trace of the victims.

A woman’s body was found inside a septic tank at her home in Pabna’s Atghoria upazila yesterday, hours after a fire broke out at the house early yesterday morning.

Rucsu General Secretary Salahuddin Ammar, along with eight others, has been sued for attempted murder by the father of a Rajshahi University student, who was pulled from an ambulance and beaten during the recent violence on campus.

Police said the assailants cut through the grille of a second-floor window, entered the apartment and suffocated her

The 1981 inquiry says a “Major Muzaffar” was asked to bring bedsheets to wrap the slain president’s body before it was taken away