A local influential man has been indiscriminately lifting sand from the Harihar river in Jashore’s Manirampur upazila, posing erosion threat to many riverside villages.

Two Bangladeshi families received around Tk 30 crore in compensation, years after their loved ones were murdered in Saudi Arabia. The money was paid by the families of the accused, as per the order of Dammam and Jeddah courts.

Three including two sub-inspectors of Shah Ali Police Station were arrested on Tuesday for abducting a trader and robbing him of over  Tk 9 lakh.

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate officials detained a woman along with 8.2kg gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Tuesday night.

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan yesterday hoped that the culprits, who set fire to Mohanganj Express train in Dhaka on Tuesday, must be identified through a proper probe and be put on trial for punishment.

Moments before the fire was spotted in the coupling between the Ja and Jha carriages of Mohanganj Express on Tuesday morning, two youths were seen acting suspiciously.

Police recovered the body of a six-year-old girl who was killed after rape in Gazipur's Tongi today.

Unidentified arsonists set fire to a bus in Dhaka's Tejgaon area tonight

A woman has suffered burns after her ex-husband allegedly threw acid on her in Lalpur upazila of Natore

Independent candidate for Barishal-5 constituency Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah today filed a petition with the Supreme Court chamber judge seeking to reverse its order that barred him from contesting in the upcoming national election

A Dhaka court today framed charges against 213 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations in two cases filed in Keraniganj over political violence

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan today hoped that the culprits who set fire to three carriages of the Mohanganj Express in Dhaka yesterday, leaving four dead, are identified through proper probe and put on trial for punishment

Unidentified criminals have removed fishplates and sleepers of a rail track in Birampur Railway Station of Dinajpur last night, disrupting rail communication on the Dhaka-Panchagarh route for two hours.

BNP today announced a series of mass contact programmes from tomorrow and a nationwide dawn-to-dusk blockade on December 24.

Unknown people were sued for the killing of four people in an arson attack on Mohanganj Express train in Dhaka yesterday

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate officials detained a woman along with 8.2 kg gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka last night

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday denounced arson attacks as a means of advancing political agendas or protests by political parties.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman yesterday said police have learnt that arsonists in the guise of train passengers carried out the attack on a train in Dhaka’s Tejgaon, that left four people dead.

Mohammad Rassel, the former chief executive officer of the controversial e-commerce platform Evaly,  was yesterday released from Kashimpur prison on bail.

Another 32 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat and their front organisations were sentenced to different jail terms yesterday in two cases filed in 2015 and 2018 over political violence in the capital.