The brother of Mozammel Hossain Saimon, on death row for murdering writer-blogger Avijit Roy, yesterday said that law enforcers have illegally confined him, threatened to kill him in “crossfire” and coerced him into making a false confession.

The 26-year-old CNG-run autorickshaw driver who was shot dead in the capital’s Jurain area on Monday night was targeted by top drug dealers over previous enmity, police said.

Locals say puppies were thrown into the pond; videos of the grieving mother dog sparked outrage

Victim strangled, says police

Police launch investigation

The government yesterday issued a gazette notification for the Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Redress Ordinance-2025, criminalising the act of enforced disappearance.

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was shot dead in Dhaka’s Jurain area yesterday, reportedly over previous enmity.

A Cumilla court yesterday granted bail to a 15-year-old boy, who was arrested in Nangolkot upazila on charge of participating in a procession organised by the banned BCL on November 17.

Six boys, aged between 13 and 17, were abducted reportedly by armed masked men in Baharchhara union of Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Sunday evening.

Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and her niece Tulip Siddiq, a Labour MP in the UK, were yesterday sentenced in absentia to varying jail terms over corruption in the allocation of Purbachal plots.

Victim, identified as Pappu Sheikh, was killed reportedly over previous enmity

Police say clear case of homicide

Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed assigns Registrar General Mohammad Habibur Rahman as secretary

Police vows legal action

Family urges medical care and alternative exam arrangements for the boy

Tulip used her power to get plots for her mother Rehana, brother Bobby, and sister Azmina.

Hasina sentenced to five years in prison, Rehana to seven years, and Tulip to two years

The government yesterday issued an ordinance to establish the long-desired Supreme Court secretariat with a view to ensuring full independence of the judiciary.

A special court is set to deliver a verdict today in the case filed over the Dhaka’s Purbachal plot scam against 17 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and niece British MP Tulip Siddiq.

Three people were killed and at least nine others injured yesterday in a violent clash over a long-running land dispute in Kurigram’s Nageshwari upazila.