Police claimed to have arrested a gang of 16 pickpockets in the capital on Tuesday.

In one of those instances when irony takes over the centre stage in the realm of politics, a Patuakhali Awami League leader yesterday resigned for an attack, allegedly carried out by fellow party activists on mayoral candidate and chief of Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) Faizul Karim during the Barishal City polls on June 12.

The Department of Narcotics Control seized 1,15,000 pieces of yaba pills from a minibus in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A Cumilla court yesterday sentenced two people to death for killing a man in Homna upazila in 2010.

At least two people died in road accidents in Dhaka and Jashore yesterday.

A second video clip of a Bangladeshi UN official, reportedly abducted by Al-Qaeda in Yemen, has allegedly been released by the terrorist outfit as “proof of life”.

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her 10-year-old daughter from Dhaka’s Badda area early yesterday.

More than 30 social and cultural organisations have issued a joint statement demanding the immediate release of all people arrested and detained under the controversial Digital Security Act (DSA), including Khadijatul Kubra, a second-year student of political science at Jagannath University.

An Upazila Parishad chairman in Natore, who is accused in a murder case, has been temporarily suspended by the local government department.

The High Court today directed the respondents concerned not to make any comment involving corruption allegation raised against Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) President Kazi Md Salahuddin till an ongoing enquiry is over..Several sports journalists, TV channel authorities, and Supreme

A garment worker was died while working in a garment factory in Savar's Ashulia on Tuesday evening..The deceased was identified as Abdul Halim,22, son of Muza Miah of Borai village in Natore district He was a worker in quality section at Alpa Composit Towel Limited factory in Palashbari a

Police today rescued a student of Dhaka University and detained two persons from Dhaka's Khilgaon area for abducting him

Officials of Department of Narcotics Control seized 1,15,000 pieces of yaba tablets from a minibus used by an NGO, which works in a Rohingya refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar early today.

A woman and her daughter were stabbed to death by unidentified criminals inside their house in Noakhali Sadar upazila this morning

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her 10-year-old daughter from Dhaka's Badda area early today

A street vendor has been beaten to death in the capital’s Mirpur for not attending a rally organised by the Jubo League in the area, alleged family members and locals.

The High Court yesterday directed the government-formed committee to complete in two months the enquiry into the detention and death of Sultana Jesmineof Naogaon.

The High Court yesterday summoned the chief judicial magistrate of Shariatpur, the district’s additional superintendent of police (Naria Circle), and the officer-in-charge of the Padma Bridge South Police Station to appear before it and explain the torture of two businessmen in custody and them being sent to jail even though they had secured bail from the HC.

Police have detained a man for his alleged involvement in the attack on Muft Syed Faizul Karim, Islami Andolan Bangladesh-backed mayoral candidate in Barishal City Corporation election.

Bangladesh Football Federation President Kazi Md Salahuddin yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to remove “defamatory and untrue statements made against him” at some programmes of Ekattor TV from all the public domains where they have been published.