22+ hour, 40+ min ago   (594+ words) Two years after former Rajshahi University Chhatra League leader Abdullah Al Masud was beaten to death by a mob, there has been no visible progress in the investigation, and no one has been arrested in the case. On September 11, Masud's…...

15+ hour, 9+ min ago   (354+ words) A Dhaka court yesterday placed 24 leaders and activists of the Awami League and its associate bodies on 10-day remand each in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act over their alleged involvement in a procession in Dhaka’s Gulshan area on…...

23+ hour, 3+ min ago   (621+ words) At least 63 foreign nationals were detained during a raid on an eight-storey building in Chattogram’s Khulshi on Thursday night over alleged involvement in online scams and gambling. Of the foreign nationals, 35 are from Laos, 21 from Pakistan, five from China, and…...

21+ hour, 17+ min ago   (107+ words) The Daily Star A court in Habiganj yesterday sentenced two men to death for raping and murdering a girl in Nabiganj upazila, Habiganj, in 2021. Judge Syeda Minhaj Um Munira of Habiganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 handed down the…...

23+ hour, 30+ min ago   (275+ words) Journalist Pulak Chatterjee, who was found dead at the Barishal bureau office of Bangla daily Samakal on Friday, left behind five notes describing his distress over prolonged illness and unemployment, police said. Pulak was a former general secretary of the…...

23+ hour, 52+ min ago   (608+ words) For Saidul Islam, the nearly 380-kilometre distance between Narayanganj and Nilphamari did not mean days of waiting behind bars after he secured bail. The 30-year-old, arrested by Nilphamari district police in a drug case filed with Fatullah Police Station, was…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (420+ words) Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested five people from different parts of the country for allegedly selling citizens’ personal information online after obtaining it from government servers. The arrestees are Abdus Salam Sarkar of Naogaon, Subrata Chandra Pal of Gazipur,…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (381+ words) A local BNP leader has been accused of assaulting a shop owners’ association president in Narayanganj in his shop based on what his family described as “false allegations of links to the Awami League”, whose activities are banned. The victim,…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (195+ words) A court in Habiganj this afternoon sentenced two men to death for raping and murdering a teenage girl in Nabiganj upazila, Habiganj, in 2021. Judge Syeda Minhaj Um Munira of Habiganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 handed down the verdict…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (428+ words) The family of a shop owners’ association president in Narayanganj has accused a local BNP leader of assaulting him at his shop based on what they described as false allegations of links to the Awami League, whose activities are banned....