BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday criticised recent comments of Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on political reforms, and terming those “misleading” and “incorrect”.

Misbah Uddin Siraj, former organising secretary of Awami League central committee, was abducted, assaulted, and then released allegedly after payment of ransom early Friday in Sylhet.   

Three arrestees gave confessional statements before a judicial magistrate in Feni on Friday after the body of a 10-year-old boy was recovered from a ditch on Thursday, police said

A nine-year-old girl was found dead in a field in Poilanpur village of Chatmohar upazila under Pabna today

ACC, NBR, and CID expected to probe S Alam, Beximco, Summit, Bashundhara, Gemcon, Orion, Nabil, Nassa, Sikder and Aramit groups

Siraj is currently under treatment at another hospital

A court in Gazipur sent them to jail this afternoon

The incident occurred at Deoghar Government Primary School area in the upazila around 7:30am

Police have arrested two people for allegedly stealing gold ornaments and cash from a 17-year-old girl

Seven idols of deities were vandalised, and gold ornaments stolen from Mahashashan Kali Mata Temple in Jamalpur’s Sarishabari upazila early yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested five members of an inter-district robbery gang in connection with a robbery of Tk 26.22 lakh from a businessman in Dhaka’s Kakrail area on December 4

Muggers abducted two employees of Dutch-Bangla Bank Agent Banking and snatched Tk 28 lakh from them in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila yesterday evening

Seven idols were vandalised and gold ornaments were stolen from Mahashashan Kali Mata Temple in Jamalpur's Sarishabari upazila early today

Probe committee finds them guilty of acting against protests during July-August

Chattogram Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Saiful Islam yesterday told Rabindra Ghosh, a senior High Court lawyer, to find a lawyer from Chattogram to stand with him to conduct a hearing on behalf of former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari.

The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday allowed its investigation agency to interrogate former state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak.

The Supreme Court chamber judge yesterday stayed a High Court order that granted ad-interim bail to actress Shomi Kaiser, also former president of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB), in an attempted murder case.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court July 30, 2012 verdict that scrapped the 10-year and three-year jail sentences against Giasuddin Al Mamun and his wife in a graft case.

Twenty-nine garment factories in the Ashulia industrial area were declared closed following continued demonstrations by workers demanding a 15-percent increase in annual increments.

The Supreme Court chamber judge today stayed a High Court order that granted ad-interim bail to former state minister for civil aviation Md Mahbub Ali in a murder case