West Bengal CID has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata

Precautionary safety measures in place, Italian Navy frigate escorting it

A woman and her two children were found dead at their residence in Basur Char village of Hossainpur upazila in Kishoreganj yesterday.

Police seized two bottles of petrol and a motorcycle from their possession

A Jubo League activist was hacked to death at a family arbitration that was called to settle a land dispute in Rangpur Sadar upazila on Friday night.

The High Court yesterday said forcing a confessional statement out of accused was “unfortunate for the country”.

A readymade garment worker was killed in a clash between police and factory workers at Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) in Savar yesterday.

A Union Parishad member was shot dead by a group of unidentified miscreants in Noakhali’s Hatia upazila early yesterday.

Two suspected robbers were beaten to death by a mob in Narsingdi’s Belabo upazila around 8:00pm on Tuesday.

Negligence of Sylhet’s Murari Chand College’s principal and hostel superintendent “crumbled” the right to life and personal liberty of the woman raped on campus, the High Court observed yesterday, directing that they be suspended.

Two unidentified men attacked an indigenous Buddhist monk inside a temple in remote Panchhari upazila of Khagrachhari and looted Tk 1 lakh early Monday.

A woman, devastated, is sitting on a bed with two others. There are bruises and injury marks on her legs, face and other parts of her body. Bloodstains can be seen on the bed sheet.

A 26-year-old Tripura youth, who was arrested on May 16 in a case filed under the pornography act, was found dead inside the Khagrachhari district jail early yesterday.

A boy was beaten to death allegedly by staffers of a drug rehabilitation centre in Jashore.

Kurdish forces launched a security operation in a camp for suspected family members of Islamic State group militants and made dozens of arrests yesterday, a war monitor and Kurdish officials said.

A ninth-grader was injured in an acid attack in Cox’s Bazar’s Pekua upazila on Saturday evening, family sources said.

Police arrested a madrasa teacher on charge of beating up a student by hanging him from a ceiling fan in Bagerhat’s Rampal.

A woman and her mother suffered burns in an acid attack in Bhatamatha village of Brahmanbaria’s Akhaura upazila yesterday.

Several hundred supporters of Hefajat-e Islam attacked, vandalised and looted at least 75 Hindu houses in Sunamganj’s Noagaon village yesterday morning over a Facebook post.

A man was stabbed to death during a clash between two groups of locals in the port city’s Agrabad area yesterday.