Four members of a female mugging gang were arrested in Dhaka’s Mirpur area yesterday, said police.

During an anti-narcotics drive in the capital over the last 24 hours, police arrested 74 people for allegedly selling and consuming drugs.

A councillor of Narayanganj City Corporation has allegedly hoarded two tonnes of rice from the government’s OMS programme, depriving at least 400 poor people.

Bangladesh is in talks with India to get fugitive accused Rabiul Islam’s Indian passport cancelled, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said yesterday. 

Police early yesterday arrested two teenagers in a case filed over the murder of two schoolboys in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila.

The brother of UK-based Bangladeshi journalist Zulkarnain Saer Khan Sami, who worked with Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit), was assaulted by a group in the capital’s Mirpur area last week.

A sub-inspector of Turag Police Station was stabbed allegedly by a suspected drug dealer during a drive this evening

Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Department (WMNCD) filed a case after 13 dead bodies of critically endangered Bengal vultures and seven dogs were recovered from Barakapan area of Moulvibazar last night

Unidentified miscreants shot dead a former Awami League leader in Khulna city this afternoon.

The Police Bureau of Investigation has pressed charges against Dr Kazi Ertaza Hassan, the editor and publisher of Bangla daily Vorer Pata, and three others in a case filed on charges of fraud and forgery for registering land with fake documents..Three others are Dhaka University's (DU) Ins

Police arrested four women who they said were members of a female mugging gang from Dhaka’s Mirpur area yesterday.

Police arrested two teenagers in a case filed over the murder of two schoolboys in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila early today..Both the accused, aged around 14 years, were arrested in a drive led by Saheed Ahmed, additional superintendent of police of Baufal Circle.

Interpol has issued a red notice against fugitive accused Rabiul Islam alias Arav Khan, owner of Dubai's Arav Jewellers.

Hackers are demanding $5 million in ransom for restoring Biman’s access to its server.

Students of Indrakul Secondary School in Patuakhali demonstrated on campus yesterday, demanding immediate arrest and trial of those who killed two of their fellows the day before.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Begum Rubaiya Yeasmin was withdrawn from Bogura yesterday and attached to the law ministry for forcing the mother of a student in the district to touch her feet and beg forgiveness.

A Jagannath University student, who has been languishing in jail since August last year after being sued under the DSA, has been shifted to a condemned cell, where inmates waiting execution are kept in solitary confinement.

A man was shot dead when he tried to stop robbers from breaking into his neighbour’s house in Savar’s Ashulia around 3:00am yesterday.

Members of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate yesterday seized 23 gold bars worth Tk 2.5 crore from Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Seheli Sabrin yesterday said Rabiul Islam alias Arav Khan is under watch in the United Arab Emirates.