Police say local man allegedly opened fire while intoxicated

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to Bangabhaban employee Sarwar-e-Alam, who was arrested in connection with the alleged hacking of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman’s X (formerly Twitter) account.

The interim government has decided to propose an investigation by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights into the killing of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.

Police yesterday recovered the bodies of a couple and their two children from their home at Wapda Bihari Camp in the capital’s Pallabi.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday sentenced six people, including a former lawmaker, to death for the killing of seven people during the July 2024 uprising in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital, where the victims were loaded into a vehicle and set on fire, with at least one still alive.

ICT assistant programmer denies involvement

The police today recovered bodies of a couple and their two minor children from a house in Dhaka’s Pallabi, prompting an investigation into what officers described as a possible family tragedy.

Trees felled from forested areas inside the campus; no suspect detained

International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentences former lawmaker Saiful Islam and five others to death over the killing and burning of protesters during the July uprising in Ashulia

Legal action underway, police say

Sixteen people, including former Awami League lawmaker Muhammad Saiful Islam and former Dhaka range deputy inspector general (DIG) Syed Nurul Islam, are accused in the case

A 14-year-old boy was shot dead, and at least five others were injured during a clash over establishing dominance in the char area of Saydabad under Raipura upazila in Narsingdi early yesterday.

A local Jamaat leader and a printing shop owner have been sued over making fake ballot seals in Lakshmipur.

At least 195 people have been killed and 11,229 injured in political violence across the country over the past 17 months, according to the Human Rights Support Society (HRSS).

Three teenagers, arrested on charges of killing a seven-year-old girl in Tangail’s Dhanbari upazila recently, have confessed before magistrates, police said yesterday.

BNP alleges wider conspiracy, Jamaat denies role

Two of them raped the victim before killing her, say police

Investigations ongoing to identify those involved, police say

Police confirm confession; case filed under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act

ICT-1 takes cognisance of charges and fixes February 19 for next hearing