Category: Crime

A college girl was beaten to death allegedly by her in-laws at Khilkhet in the city on Saturday.

Police arrested two young men along with a cache of smuggled Indian firearms in bordering Alirgram area of Goainghat upazila on Tuesday.

A day after a survey revealed that most summer fruits are treated with formalin, a mobile court here on Wednesday sentenced the owners of five mango depots at Karwan Bazar to 15 days in jail and fined them Tk 2…

The World Bank has handed over a probe report into the alleged corruption in the Padma project to Finance Minister AMA Muhith, six months after its investigators left the country.

The news spread quickly: somebody was coming to give out more money. By the middle of the steely gray morning of June 7, thousands of men and women who used to work at the collapsed Rana Plaza factory complex had…

Unidentified miscreants hurled three cocktails at the house of Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Darus Salam Road in Mirpur in the capital on Sunday afternoon.

Lohagara thana police recovered a hanging body of a housewife on Monday morning from Poddarpara area of Lohagara . Though the members of the deceased’s in-laws family termed it as suicide, locals and relatives of the deceased think that it…

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has quizzed nine top officials of Prime Bank over the much-talked-about Bismillah Group loan scam.

Thakurgaon Zila Babosayee Sangathan Oikya Parishad held a rally at Thakurgaon blocked  Bangabandhu Road in the town recently .

Thakurgaon Zila Babosayee Sangathan Oikya Parishad held a rally at Thakurgaon blocked  Bangabandhu Road in the town recently . They were demanding immediate arrest of the robbers who looted around 300 to as of gold ornaments from Khawaja Guinea House,…

Involvement of MPs, belonging to both Awami League and BNP, in illegal grabbing of Khas land remains a major obstacle towards ensuring poor people’s right to land, State Minister for Law Quamrul Islam said on Saturday.

Miscreants exploded three crude bombs in front of and on the rooftop of the official residence of Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni, now on her way to Brussels, at city’s 37 Eskaton Road on Tuesday.

A girl filed a case against a Rab personnel with sadar thana of the district on Thursday for seducing her.

A suspected mugger was killed in police firing in the city’s Agargaon area on Saturday night.

Detective police nabbed seven people from the capital’s Mohammadpur and Mirpur areas with firearms and bullets in raids from Thursday night until Friday morning.

Robbers looted a jewellery shop after creating panic by exploding bombs in Bazar Para area of the district town on Wednesday night.

At least three people were killed and 50 others injured in a road accident in Khoyrad area under Charfashion upazila of the district on Wednesday evening.

War crimes suspect Syed Mohammad Qaiser, former state minister for Agriculture during the regime of military ruler General HM Ershad, was sent to jail following an order passed by the International Crimes Tribunal-2  on Tuesday.

An inquiry team of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday submitted its probe report on graft allegation in construction of the collapsed Rana Plaza and the illegal wealth of its owner Sohel Rana.

A mother was seriously injured when she tried to save her daughter’s chastity from the hands of some debauched fellows on the night of Friday.

The death toll rose to 1126 in Savar Rana Plaza collapse with the recovery of one more body from the rubble till 10:00am Sunday on the 19th day of the incident.

GAZIPUR: A police official was killed and 10 others, including three cops, were injured in a clash between locals and law enforcers when they went to catch an accused in Borogaon village under Kaliganj upazila early Saturday.

The death toll from the disastrous Rana Plaza collapse climbed to 1111 with the recovery of 34 more bodies on Saturday. The 34 bodies were pulled out of the ruins from 6am to 6pm today (Saturday), said sources at the Army…

The death toll rose to 1079 in Savar Rana Plaza collapse with the recovery of two more bodies from the rubble till 7:30am Saturday on the 18th day of the incident.

The death toll rose to 1021 in Savar Rana Plaza collapse with the recovery of seven more bodies the debris till 8:00am Friday on the 17th day of the incident.

The death toll in the disastrous Rana Plaza collapse reached 735 with the recovery of 45 more bodies on Tuesday.