Police have detained five people after a video showing a woman tied to an electric pole and having cold water poured on her in the capital went viral on social media.

 A 35-year-old man was killed in a gun attack that also left his wife and daughter injured in Bagha upazila of Rajshahi yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion has arrested three people in connection with the murder of Khokon Chandra Das, 50, a businessman and a mobile banking agent, who was stabbed and set on fire in Shariatpur’s Damudya upazila.

Man set houses ablaze in Raozan and Rangunia to settle personal grudges and disrupt communal harmony, DB says

Mobile banking agent Khokon Chandra Das succumbed to his injuries yesterday

One was seen taking photos of the residence and nearby vehicles

Sufficient evidence found, Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam says

His wife and daughter were injured in gun attack, undergoing treatment

Law enforcers launch joint operation as ransom demanded

He has been accused of obstructing government duties, misbehaving with police officers

A BNP leader was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in Shankarpur of Jashore town yesterday evening.

The cases filed over the attacks on the offices of the country’s two leading newspapers -- The Daily Star and Prothom Alo -- were yesterday transferred to the Cyber and Special Crime Division of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

A businessman who was hacked and set on fire in Shariatpur’s Damudya upazila on Wednesday night died yesterday morning while undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.

Mahdi Hasan, member secretary of Students Against Discrimination’s Habiganj unit, was detained last night, a day after his controversial remarks during a confrontation with the officer-in-charge of Shayestaganj Police Station.

Police are examining a video of Faisal Karim Masud, the prime accused in the murder of Inquilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi, which recently surfaced on social media, said Md Sazzat Ali, commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).

Bhatara OC says police working to identify those involved

Police say assailants could not be identified immediately

Family demands immediate arrest of attackers

He is now in critical condition, say police

A vested syndicate has long been engaged in illegal tree felling in the Satchari and Rema-Kalenga reserved forests in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj, putting the biodiversity of the protected areas at serious risk.