Tag: Crime

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.

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.