The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today directed the lower court concerned to finish within six months the trial proceedings of the case filed over the murder of actor Sohel Chowdhury.

The deceased had served time in jail earlier last year in connection with attempting to rape the same woman. He walked out on bail three months ago.

Forty-one-year-old Md Hasan Salam embezzled over Tk 11 crore from different financial institutions and individuals in the last 14 years, all the while avoiding the eye of law enforcers.

Police arrested three people and seized 110 stolen mobile phones from them in the capital's Pallabi and Kafrul yesterday.

Arrestee Md Masum (48) was sentenced to life term imprisonment in the rape case filed with Kotalipara Police Station in Gopalganj in 2002.

Fardin's father Kazi Nooruddin Rana rejected the probe report submitted by detectives clearing Amatullah Bushra

A gunfight took place between members of Rab and suspected militants as well as separatist group members in Bandarban's Thanchi upazila, Rab officials said this morning.

A woman and her 10-year-old twin daughters, who were rescued in critical condition from their flat in the capital’s Uttara early yesterday, had not eaten for at least four days.

The manager of a restaurant in Narayanganj's Chasara, who was shot Sunday night, succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at the ICU of Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 11:45pm yesterday.

A police probe body has found that Gazipur trader Md Rabiul Islam, who died last month allegedly due to torture in police custody, was arrested days before he died.

A municipal mayor in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila publicly shamed three children by cutting their hair after accusing them of theft.

The Detective Branch of police yesterday submitted the final report of the case filed over the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash, clearing Amatullah Bushra of all charges. 

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against former director of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ishrat Ahmed and 22 others for their alleged involvement in irregularities that caused the national flag carrier to lose Tk 1,161 crore.

Police yesterday arrested a union parishad member for raping a garment worker in front of her husband in the port city’s Sitakunda upazila.

Rab arrested a death-row war criminal in Mymensingh city on Sunday night.

Twenty-eight sacks of sand and stones were found in a truck -- instead of wheat -- while unloading a wheat consignment at the government food warehouse in Chuadanga.

A Tangail court today granted bail to Evaly founder CEO Mohammad Rassel in the Tk 47 lakh cheque dishonour case.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said he does not know whether BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has given any undertaking in the application for extending her release order that she will not do politics.

The Detective Branch of police today submitted the final report before a Dhaka court clearing Amatullah Bushra of the murder charges in a case filed over the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash.

The High Court today expressed grave concern over pasting posters on the walls of structures including the flyovers in Dhaka.