Crime
Travel ban on graft suspects: SC modifies HC ruling on prior court permission
The Supreme Court today modified, with some observations and directions, the High Court ruling that Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has to take court permission to impose embargo on corruption suspects or accused from leaving the country.
27 September 2021, 06:13 AM
Convict arrested 19 years after attack on Sheikh Hasina’s motorcade in Satkhira
Detectives have arrested a convict in a case filed over the attack on motorcade of the then opposition leader and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.
21 August 2021, 07:24 AM
3 men of banned Ansar Al Islam held for trying to recruit Rohingyas
Special action group of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) arrested three members of banned militant group Ansar Al Islam on Saturday night from Dhaka’s Rampura area.
27 June 2021, 16:29 PM
5-year-old murdered after rape in Chattogram
A five-year-old was strangled to death after rape in Chattogram’s Chandgaon area today. Police recovered the body from under the bed of the victim’s residence at noon.
27 June 2021, 13:08 PM
9 men suspected to be robbers held with weapons, drugs in Savar
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today said they have detained nine members of an inter-district robbery gang and recovered eight homemade weapons and drugs from them in Ashulia of Savar.
27 June 2021, 13:04 PM
Four arrested with LSD and new drug ‘DMT’ from Dhaka’s Tejgaon, Rab says
Rab claimed to have arrested four alleged drug traders along with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and a “new drug” N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) from Dhaka’s Tejgaon industrial area last night.
27 June 2021, 11:14 AM
60-year-old UP chairman marries teenager in Patuakhali
A 60-year-old man, chairman of Konakdia union parishad under Bauphal upazila of Patuakhali, has married a 14-year-old at an arbitration he called over the girl eloping with her 19-year-old boyfriend.
26 June 2021, 15:21 PM
Former UPDF member stabbed dead in Khagrachhari
A former member of the United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) was abducted and stabbed to death in the remote Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari district early today.
26 June 2021, 09:48 AM
Youth sedated, raped two teenage cousins in Cox’s Bazar’s Chakaria upazila
A youth sedated two teenagers and raped them in Cox’s Bazar Chakaria upazila when their family members were not home on Tuesday.
26 June 2021, 07:32 AM
Farmers Bank scam: ACC arrests AD26.com proprietor
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested Robin Siddiqui, proprietor of AD26.com, an advertisement firm, in a case filed over misappropriating Tk 26.66 lakh from the Farmers Bank Ltd.
25 June 2021, 12:02 PM
Man suspected to be rapist killed in Rajshahi ‘gunfight’
A man suspected to have raped and murdered a fourth-grader was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi early today.
25 June 2021, 06:41 AM
BSF man injured in attack by gang ‘trying to smuggle phensedyl to Bangladesh’
A BSF Jawan was injured in a gang attack when at least 20 miscreants were trying to smuggle a consignment of banned phensedyl cough syrup to Bangladesh via Malda district of West Bengal today.
24 June 2021, 12:17 PM
Severed body parts recovered from a field in Moulvibazar
Severed body parts were recovered from a bamboo field at Dakshin Pashaun village of Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar today.
21 June 2021, 14:56 PM
31 arrested in Jhenaidah for trying to illegally enter India
Members Border Guard Bangladesh this morning arrested 31 people from different villages of Moheshpur upazila's border region in Jhenaidah, while they were trying to illegally enter India from Bangladesh.
21 June 2021, 13:09 PM
Boy found dead in Dhaka’s Bangshal
A boy was found dead at an under-construction building in Dhaka’s Bangshal area this afternoon, a day after he went missing.
20 June 2021, 15:07 PM
Three arrested in Chattogram for running microbus over ASI
Three men were arrested today on charge of killing an Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI), Kazi Md Salauddin, of port city’s Chandgaon Police Station, who died after being run over by a microbus carrying alcohol at Chandgaon area on June 11.
19 June 2021, 12:16 PM
Bodies of parents, daughter recovered from flat in Dhaka's Kadamtali
Police today recovered the bodies of three members of a family from a flat in Dhaka’s Kadamtali area.
19 June 2021, 09:19 AM
Tk 3.77 crore missing from Dhaka Bank’s Bangshal branch, 2 arrested
A total of Tk 3.77 crore has been missing from the vault of the Dhaka Bank’s Bangshal branch. Police have arrested two officials of the bank in this connection.
18 June 2021, 07:12 AM
ACC sues 11 people for including Rohingyas in voter list, negligence in duty
The Anti-Corruption Commission today filed two cases accusing a director of the Election Commission headquarters in one of the cases for his negligence in duties during his time as the as the senior district election officer of Chattogram in 2019.
16 June 2021, 14:40 PM
Ex-leader of Hefajat Mamunul among 43 sued for misappropriating Tk 20 crore
Forty-three people, including Hefajat-e-Islam’s former Secretary General Mamunul Haque, have been sued on charge of misappropriating Tk 20 crore from a madrasa in the capital.
16 June 2021, 14:32 PM