Category: Crime

Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested two people, including a union parishad member, along with 52 pieces of Yaba tablet at Amratoli village in Sadar upazila on Friday night.

Eight of the nine suspected Islamic militants of HUJI were sent to Jhalakati jail after interrogation in Dhaka for four days during their remand.

Motihar Police arrested 15 Islami Chhatra Shibir activists suspecting their involvement in the attack on the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader of Rajshahi University unit on Thursday night.

DHAKA – The report of the investigation on the Hallmark-Sonali Bank loan scandal will be submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission in seven days, said ACC secretary Md Fayzur Rahman Chowdhury on Thursday.

Four more prosecution witnesses gave their depositions before a Dhaka court on Wednesday in the sensational tailoring shop employee Biswajit murder case.  

As many as 122 passports with visas, taken by two Baira-enlisted manpower export companies, have gone missing from the office of the state-run the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET).

A student of Sylhet Agriculture Institute committed suicide by hanging at Agriculture Institute in Rukeya Hall under Sylhet on 20 August Tuesday noon.

Four miscreants were arrested along with boat, net and bottles of poison from the Eastern Division of Sundarban forest on the charge of catching fish from the forest after pouring poison in the canals on Thursday.

Two Bangladeshi witnesses, a lawyer and a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) representative will go to India on Sunday to make their depositions before a special court constituted by Border Security Force (BSF) in Cooch Behar at the trial of the…

A court here yesterday sentenced a man to suffer life term in jail for killing his cousin at village Gamruli-Horipur under Kendua upazila of Netrakona district in 2000.

DHAKA: Three United States soldiers were killed in Afghanistan’s eastern borderlands on Sunday, US and Nato officials said, the first Nato combat deaths this month.

SANAA – A Yemeni military official says gunmen believed to be from al-Qaida have killed five soldiers at a checkpoint in a southern province.

KHULNA: An activist of ruling Awami League was killed by miscreants in Gabtali area of the district on Saturday night.

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested two foreign residents suspected of having contacts with al-Qaida’s offshoot in Yemen over imminent suicide attacks in the region.

A London mother was hacked to death with machetes in front of her 12-year-old son in Bangladesh by jealous relatives, her family told the Evening Standard.

A dawn-to-dusk road blockade enforced by United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) protesting an arson attack in which around 50 houses of indigenous families were burnt in Matiranga upazila on Saturday, passed off in the district on Monday.   

Slain Juba League leader of Dhaka Metropolitan City Reazul Haque Milky’s driver Maruf Reza Sagar’s detained wife Fahima Islam Lopa made confessional statement on Sunday afternoon before a Dhaka court admitting her involvement in the killing.

Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday detained the wife of Maruf Reza Sagor, believed to be a close associate of slain Juba League leader Reazul Haque Milki, in Dhaka.

More than 100 people were injured as rivals locked into a clash over a piece of disputed land at Barochatul village in Kanaighat upazila of the district on Wednesday.

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Wednesday said Juba League leader Zahid Siddique Tarek was in disguise, dressed in a white Punjabi-Pajama and wearing a scalp hat, to deceive Reazul Haque Milki when he gunned down the leader of his…

A court here has sentenced a young man to 17 years imprisonment in an arms case filed in 2000.

Two forest robbers were killed in a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion Rab in Andharmanik area of the Sundarbans under Mongla upazila on Wednesday.

A thread factory owner was shot and injured by unknown miscreants at Merul under Badda Police Station here on Tuesday.

A  Buet student, who was stabbed at his dormitory on April 9, succumbed to his injuries at Square Hospital in the city early Tuesday.

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday quizzed four officials of Sonali Bank in connection with the alleged swindling of Tk 1.56 billion from the bank by Fare Weaving Mills Limited, a private firm.

Seventeen people, including alleged local terrorist Ibrahim Hossain Ratan, have been sued on the charge of killing Kashipur unit Juba Dal leader Selim Hossain. Lucky Begum, wife of the victim, filed the case against the 17–seven of them identified and…

Five policemen were injured as criminals hurled bombs at them at Mondalgati village in Sadar upazila on Sunday afternoon.

Robbers looted valuables from a pagoda at Gazirchat here early Sunday.

A local Jubo Dal leader was shot dead by his rivals over establishing supremacy at Kashipur village in Laxmipur Sadar upazila early Sunday.