The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court verdict with some modifications and guidelines to stop police force from making arbitrary arrests on suspicion and torturing arrestees on remand.

Police say they see a link between some major murders with the execution of some convicted war criminals. Blames have been put on a group "who were of anti-liberation spirit and are against the war trials."

Two Bangladeshis on UN peacekeeping mission were killed and five injured in a storm in Mali.

When all the paraphernalia linked with power and status fail to get lowly commoners to show respect – say they forget to salam or shower you with petals when you enter the vicinity of the primary school you are to visit – there is only one thing to do.

Three mobile courts have been formed in Pabna, the home district of death row convict Motiur Rahman Nizami, to avert violence centering the proceedings of his execution.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police will not allow use of stickers on vehicles identifying various professions like journalists, police and lawyers.

An outlaw has been killed in what police say gunfight in Kushtia Sadar upazila.

Two cases have been filed – one by family over the murders and the other by police for assault on a cop – in connection with yesterday's gruesome Kalabagan double murders. No one has been arrested yet.

Bullet-riddled body of a college student was recovered ten days after he was allegedly abducted by unidentified people from Jhenidah.

An 11-year-old girl has been allegedly raped in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area. A case has been filed in this regard and the accused cuprit arrested.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against five, including three former policemen of Pallabi Police Station, for their involvement in killing Ishtiaq Ahmed Jonny in police custody in February 2014.

Banshkhali Chhatra Oikya Forum calls a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the upazila of Chittagong for Wednesday protesting Monday's incident that left four people killed in “police firing”.

Police yesterday recovered 20 grenades, firearms and ammunition, and a huge amount of bomb-making materials, including gel

Police recover 23 bombs from a house in Bhogra area of Gazipur city and pick up two people in this connection.

An alleged robber was killed in a "gunfight" with police in Shalikha upazila of Magura early yesterday.

She may have been briefly separated from her parents for her poor judgement of a child, but then it was her ready wits that soon reunited her with them.

An alleged dacoit has been killed in what police described as gunfight at Shalikha upazila of Magura.

The Election Commission has asked superintendent of police of all districts to file cases against violators of electoral code of conduct during the upcoming union parishad polls.

An alleged activist of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has been killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in Khilgaon area of Dhaka early today.

A suspected robber was killed during a “gunfight” with police in Kashundi bridge area on Magura-Dhaka highway early yesterday.