Boat laden with sundari logs seized

Police seized logs of sundari trees, which grow only in the Sundarbans, from an engine-run boat in Nesarabad upazila yesterday morning.
28 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Woman kills husband for protesting her extramarital affair

A woman allegedly slit the throat of her husband as he protested her extramarital relationship with a neighbour at Sahapara in Sadullapur
28 January 2016, 18:00 PM

HSC examinee killed by friends

An examinee of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) is stabbed to death by his friends in Mymensingh.
28 January 2016, 15:17 PM

Ctg cops blame Shibir for plot to create riots

Police in Chittagong blames Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, for plotting to create communal riots for ousting the government.
28 January 2016, 11:47 AM

Audacity of an offender

In a gross show of power, a car owner first hit a van driver in Dhaka and then beat up a journalist who protested the incident.
28 January 2016, 09:27 AM

Magistrate gets threat letter

A magistrate was issued a death threat in a letter yesterday.
27 January 2016, 20:43 PM

Jatka seized

A team of coastguard men on patrol on the Kayra River seized four maunds of jatka (hilsa fry less than nine inches in length) yesterday
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Rape bid, teacher sued

A schoolteacher has been sued for his alleged bid to rape a girl at a residential hotel in Rail Road area of Jessore district town on Tuesday
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Upazila Jamaat ameer held

Police yesterday arrested Saghata upazila unit ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami from Kanaipara Dakhil Madrasa. The arrestee, Ibrahim Ali, son of
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

5 polythene traders fined

A mobile court on Tuesday fined five traders at Salanga Bazar in the district town for illegally selling and storing polythene bags. The
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Gunfight leaves 8 hurt in Moheshkhali

At least eight people, including three women, were injured during a gunfight between two rival gangs at Kalagarirpara village in Moheshkhali upazila on Tuesday.
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Two bKash staff stabbed, robbed of Tk 8 lakh

Armed muggers stabbed two bKash staff and took away around Tk 8 lakh from them in Faridpur Sadar upazila yesterday.
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Son kills mother in Kishoreganj

A man stabbed his mother to death over a family feud at Doriakandi village in Bajitpur upazila of the district on Tuesday.
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

College boy found dead in Jessore

A college student was found dead near a students' mess in Bezpara area of Jessore town yesterday morning.
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

8.4 tonnes of VGD rice embezzled

A union parishad (UP) member in Kalapara upazila under the district allegedly misappropriated 8.4 tonnes of rice meant for VGD (vulnerable group development) programme.
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Freedom of expression under attack in Bangladesh: HRW

Freedom of expression came under severe attack in Bangladesh in 2015, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2016.
27 January 2016, 10:24 AM

AL leader expelled for snatching Tk 10 lakh

Jamalpur district unit of Awami League (AL) expelled a leader of Sarishabari upazila unit of the party on charge of his involvement in
26 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Robbers loot valuables from Zianagar College in Pirojpur

Robbers looted money and other valuables from Zianagar Degree College in Zianagar upazila of the district early yesterday.
26 January 2016, 18:00 PM

BB official torture: SC urged to uphold case filing order

The Supreme Court has been requested to uphold the High Court order that directed police to record a case for police torture on Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabby.
26 January 2016, 10:49 AM

bKash agent shot in Dhaka, Tk 2 lakh robbed

Unidentified miscreants shoot a bKash distributor and snatch Tk 2 lakh from him in Hazaribagh area of Dhaka.
26 January 2016, 07:09 AM