Influentials with political support are extracting sand illegally from raised shoals of Jamuna river in Tangail’s Bhuanpur upazila, alleged locals.

Detectives in a drive arrested three associates of a ‘Chinese syndicate’ in connection with fraud after opening sites of gambling, product selling and marketing, from different parts of the capital on Friday

Disguised as a doctor, she attended programmes and seminars held in posh places, only to steal.

A jobseeker was held for using a hearing device during a recruitment test for the post of health assistant at the exam centre at Thakurgaon Polytechnic Institute yesterday.

A local Awami League leader was hacked to death in Barishal’s Hizla upazila yesterday. Police recovered the body of Jamal Majhi from a soybean field in the area.

A mobile court yesterday fined three brick kilns in Phulbari upazila of Dinajpur for manufacturing bricks from the topsoil collected from arable lands.

Police arrested three robbers while they were preparing to attack a house in Nachnapara village of Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila early yesterday.

The pirates who hijacked the Bangladeshi bulk career MV Abdullah were yet to contact the ship’s owning firm or any third party for ransom as of yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested a student of Jagannath University and the institution’s assistant proctor in a case filed over instigating the death by suicide of law student Fairuz Sadaf Abontika, whose body was found hanging in her Cumilla home on Friday night. 

In April 2005, MV Feisty Gas–a Hong Kong LPG tanker–was sailing the Indian ocean, close to the coast of one of the world’s most politically unstable nations.

A case has been filed against two persons for instigating Fairuz Abontikaa, a Jagannath University student, to die by suicide

Disguised as a doctor, she attended programmes and seminars held in posh places only to steal

A human chain was formed in Cumilla today demanding justice for Jagannath University (JnU) student Fairuz Abontika, whose body was found hanging from the ceiling of her room in her parents’ house in the city last night.

The pirates took the Bangladesh-flagged ship 45 to 50 nautical miles to the north and anchored it 4 nautical miles off the coast of Godobjiran town of Somalia yesterday evening.

A pedestrian was shot dead and four other people were injured in a clash between two groups in Cumilla’s Shashongachha bus stand area yesterday afternoon.

A Bangladeshi expatriate was killed in a sofa factory fire in Al-Buraimi, Oman, on Tuesday. 

At least five students were injured when a clash broke out between Chittagong University students and locals in the campus area yesterday.

The body of a female student of Jagannath University (JnU) was found hanging from the ceiling of her room in her parents’ house in Cumilla last night, police said.

Three people were killed in an hours-long siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a popular hotel near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said yesterday.

The teacher at Shaheed M Monsur Ali Medical College in Sirajganj who shot and injured a student during a viva on March 4 was sent to jail this afternoon after his remand ended