Three people, including the director of a private hospital, were arrested in Rangpur city yesterday for selling a newborn after his parents failed to clear the hospital bills, said police.

The Bangladesh Land Port authorities held no one responsible for the weight tampering of imported goods at its weighbridge scales, more than six months after the massive scam was unearthed.

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a woman from her residence in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area yesterday.

Md Sajjad Hossain, a 45-year-old resident of Tripura, India, finds himself in a Bangladeshi prison for nearly two decades, despite completing his initial jail sentence

Tania, who worked at an event management company, used to live in an apartment on Mitali Road by herself

Two police personnel including an inspector were injured in a clash with traders during an eviction drive in Dhaka's Khilgaon area

BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury today got bail in two more cases filed over political violence centring the BNP rally in Dhaka on October 28 last year

The bodies of four-year-old twin brothers were recovered from a pond in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar this morning

Police yesterday arrested 12 persons and seized heroin and marijuana from them in a drive at Chandmari in Fatullah, Narayanganj.

A butcher was stabbed to death allegedly by some of his fellow traders in the Arani Bazar area of Rajshahi’s Bagha upazila yesterday morning.

Four youths were beaten up and handed over to police by a mob in Chattogram’s Satkania upazila for trying to shoot a former union parishad member yesterday afternoon.

A poultry farm worker was stabbed to death by unidentified criminals in Jhikargachha upazila of Jashore

Rapid Action Battalion in a drive arrested a fugitive convict who was sentenced to death in a double murder case filed with Shahporan Police Station in Sylhet in 2016.

A cattle meat trader was killed by other fellow traders in Arani Bazar area in Rajshahi’s Bagha upazila this morning

A man was beaten to death allegedly by some neighbours on suspicion of stealing a tube well in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria on Thursday night.

Sinohydro Corporation, a Chinese state-owned company, admitted to misusing duty-free benefits in the case of equipment it brought in for Padma bridge’s river training work.

Bangladesh Coast Guard yesterday detained three suspected smugglers near the Shah Amanat International Airport in the port city’s Patenga area, with a kilogramme of gold ornaments among other smuggled items in their possession.

Police have rescued a 19-year-old woman from a brothel in Jamalpur this evening, three months after her abduction from Noakhali district

The High Court today sought a report on how the seized evidences, items and articles are preserved at depositories (malkhanas) in police stations and courts across the country

A four-member probe body has been formed to investigate the rape incident on a running Lalmonirhat-bound Lalmoni Express train yesterday