Prior arrests and domestic violence allegations place him at centre of USF students’ disappearance case

A missing Bangladeshi doctoral student at the University of South Florida (USF) was found dead while his roommate has been taken into custody

The lawmaker blames Purbadhala upazila BNP joint convener for the attack

Every year on April 24, 60-year-old Josna Begum arrives at the site of the Rana Plaza collapse, clutching a small placard bearing her son’s photo -- her grief still as raw as it was 13 years ago.

Police Headquarters has alerted law enforcement agencies across the country to a potential threat of attacks on key installations by supporters of a banned extremist organisation.

After filing a case in 2020 accusing 14 people of trafficking his son to Libya and extorting money through torture, Mannan Munshi saw it move to trial and pass through years of hearings -- only to collapse before charges were framed.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a newborn girl from a carton left under a tree by the roadside in the Jamtala area of Goaladah village under Jashore Sadar upazila.

A female teacher was beaten with a sandal after a group of local BNP leaders and activists entered Daokandi Government College in Rajshahi’s Durgapur and attacked teachers during an examination on Thursday.

A youth was hacked to death on Thursday evening in Pakundia upazila of Kishoreganj over prior enmity.

Netrokona‑5 MP Masum Mostafa’s vehicle was vandalised at a filling station in Purbadhala upazila of Netrokona yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seized and froze movable and immovable assets worth a total of Tk 30,351 crore in 2025, after securing 370 court orders to this end, according to ACC’s Asset Management Unit.

The victim was sent to CMCH’s One-Stop Crisis Centre

Two Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) office-bearers were assaulted inside the Shahbagh Police Station compound last night by a group of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD).

Move comes after the first arrest in the decade-old case and a courtroom identification by Tonu’s father

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Case filed; another accused goes into hiding

Police say the suspects are part of an organised theft ring

Both sides say the victim was part of their group

Ex-army man Hafizur Rahman, a suspect in the Tonu murder case, was produced before a Cumilla court yesterday.

Police recovered the body of a 55-year-old woman from a roadside in Jashore early yesterday.