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PCJSS activist gunned down in Rangamati

PCJSS activist gunned down in Rangamati

-- 2020-12-06 13:53:47

An activist of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma) was shot dead by some miscreants at Pakuijjachhari in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati district on Sunday. The deceased was i...

BGB seizes gold bars worth Tk 49.6m in Jashore

BGB seizes gold bars worth Tk 49.6m in Jashore

-- 2020-12-05 13:42:59

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 60 gold bars, worth Tk 49.6 million (4.96 crore), from Shahzatpur border in Chougachha upazila of Jashore district early Saturday.      &...

ACC approves chargesheet against ‘Golden Monir’

ACC approves chargesheet against ‘Golden Monir’

-- 2020-12-03 20:54:26

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved a chargesheet in a case filed eight years ago against Monir Hossain, popularly known as ‘Golden Monir’, over acquiring huge amounts of wea...

Coast Guard arrests seven Myanmar citizens with 280,000 pieces of Yaba

Coast Guard arrests seven Myanmar citizens with 280,000 pieces of Yaba

-- 2020-12-02 21:24:43

Bangladesh Coast Guard has arrested seven Myanmar nationals in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday with 280,000 pieces of Yaba. In-Charge of Coast Guard Teknaf Station Lt Commander Amirul said t...

Man arrested with 14 gold bars worth Tk 14.3 million in Chattogram

Man arrested with 14 gold bars worth Tk 14.3 million in Chattogram

-- 2020-11-28 11:09:51

Police arrested a man along with 14 gold bars worth Tk 14.3 million (1.43 crore) from in front of New Rail Station in Chattogram city on Friday night. The arrestee is Uttam Sen, 35, son of Manik...

Dowry culture still thrives in Bangladesh

Dowry culture still thrives in Bangladesh

-- 2020-11-21 16:51:54

Has there been any change in the traditional practice of receiving and giving dowries in Bangladesh society? Now really! The devil of dowry still prevails here. Amid concern over violence against wom...

RAB arrests seven for selling stolen mobile phones

RAB arrests seven for selling stolen mobile phones

-- 2020-11-20 18:36:45

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested seven people from Pallabi area in the capital on Thursday night for buying and selling stolen mobile phones and recovered 275 phones and Taka 22,520 in cash from...

Four Hijbut Tahrir men held in city

Four Hijbut Tahrir men held in city

-- 2020-11-19 16:52:18

The Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of DMP arrested four members of the outlawed Hijbut Tahrir from city’s Dakshinkhan area on Wednesday. The arrestees are Md Jahirul Islam Titu, 32, Md Rashidul Isla...

Tk 0.9m robbed from Chuadanga Sonali Bank at gunpoint

Tk 0.9m robbed from Chuadanga Sonali Bank at gunpoint

-- 2020-11-15 20:15:07

Robbers looted around Tk 900,000 at gunpoint from Sonali Bank in Chuadanga's Jibonnagar upazila on Sunday. Ashraful Islam, security guard of the branch, said three people wearing face masks and helme...

Police arrest 25 female Jamaat activists in Kushtia

Police arrest 25 female Jamaat activists in Kushtia

-- 2020-11-15 12:54:15

In an overnight drive, police arrested 25 female activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from Jhaudia Bazar in Kushtia on Saturday night. Tipped off, a team of police conducted a drive in Jhaudia Mosque area an...

Three held over rape, blackmail in Feni

Three held over rape, blackmail in Feni

-- 2020-11-14 16:57:34

Police arrested three people, including a woman, in Feni over the rape of a girl, recording the act on video, and then using it to blackmail the victim to claim money while threatening to publish the...

Police arrest muezzin over Lalmonirhat lynching

Police arrest muezzin over Lalmonirhat lynching

-- 2020-11-13 17:44:55

Police arrested the muezzin of Burimari Central Jame Mosque in Lalmonirhat on Thursday night over the lynching of a man and burning his body after accusing him of disrespecting the Quran. With Afiz U...

Probe body finds no evidence of disrespecting Quran in Lalmonirhat

Probe body finds no evidence of disrespecting Quran in Lalmonirhat

-- 2020-11-12 19:40:00

The body, formed to probe the lynching of Shahidunnabi in Lalmonirhat following a rumour, found no evidence of disrespecting the holy Quran. Shahidunnabi Jewel was beaten to death and burned on Octob...

ACC to file case against MP Shahid, wife for money laundering

ACC to file case against MP Shahid, wife for money laundering

-- 2020-11-10 18:35:42

The Anti-Corruption Commission is planning to file a money laundering case against Laxmipur-3 MP Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul, his wife MP Salina Islam and two other family members. ACC fou...

Rohingya couple held with yaba tablets, Tk 11.7m

Rohingya couple held with yaba tablets, Tk 11.7m

-- 2020-11-09 16:44:14

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested a Rohingya couple and seized Tk 11.7 million and more than 5,000 yaba tablets from their possession during a raid on a house in Chattagram. The couple, Shawkat Isl...

Prime accused of Lalmonirhat youth lynching held in Dhaka

Prime accused of Lalmonirhat youth lynching held in Dhaka

-- 2020-11-07 16:40:48

Detectives in a drive arrested the prime accused in a case over the lynching of a young man for ‘disrespecting Quran’ in Burimari of Lalmonirhat, from Kuril Biswa Road in the capital early...

Rape victim raped again in Lalmonirhat

Rape victim raped again in Lalmonirhat

-- 2020-11-06 12:14:47

A girl was raped in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Wednesday evening at her sister’s house, her family said Thursday. The victim filed a case at Patgram Police station on Thursday e...

Suspended DIG Prisons Partha indicted in graft case

Suspended DIG Prisons Partha indicted in graft case

-- 2020-11-04 16:49:36

A Dhaka court today (Wednesday) framed charges in a graft case filed against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Partha Gopal Bonik, formally initiating the trial against him. Judge N...

44 held during anti-drug drives in city

44 held during anti-drug drives in city

-- 2020-10-31 16:27:56

Police arrested 44 people with different types of contrabands drugs during drives in Dhaka in last 24 hours till 6:00am today (Saturday), an official release said. Around 2,722 pieces of yaba tablets...

Man held for ‘killing wife’ in Sunamganj

Man held for ‘killing wife’ in Sunamganj

-- 2020-10-31 14:57:09

A woman was hacked to death allegedly by her husband over a family feud in Jamalganj upazila of Sunamganj district early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Samira Begum, daughter of Golam Jilan...

Ex-DIG prisons Rashid indicted for illegally amassing Tk 31.4m

Ex-DIG prisons Rashid indicted for illegally amassing Tk 31.4m

-- 2020-10-22 19:49:48

A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges against suspended DIG Prisons Bazlur Rashid for illegally amassing wealth worth Tk 31.4 million. Judge Md Iqbal Hossain of the Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 fra...

Arrest PK Haldar immediately after he returns: HC

Arrest PK Haldar immediately after he returns: HC

-- 2020-10-21 19:20:20

The High Court (HC) on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to arrest Proshanto Kumar Halder, disgraced director of International Leasing and Finance Service Ltd (ILFSL), as soon as he returns...

Youth held on rape charge in Sylhet

Youth held on rape charge in Sylhet

-- 2020-10-17 17:05:51

Police arrested a young man from Swarsati village in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet on Friday midnight for violating a girl. The arrestee is Zabaul Islam, 31, son of Abdul Latif of the village. Rashid...

Former DUCSU VP Nur sued

Former DUCSU VP Nur sued

-- 2020-10-14 16:51:33

A case has been started against former DUCSU vice-president Nurul Haque Nur under the Digital Security Act, after he branded a rape accuser 'immoral' in a livestream on Facebook. The student of Islam...

Another magistrate testifies in Abrar killing case

Another magistrate testifies in Abrar killing case

-- 2020-10-14 16:45:12

A magistrate today (Wednesday) testified in the case lodged over the murder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad. Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sora...

Sons 'kill' father over land dispute in city

Sons 'kill' father over land dispute in city

-- 2020-10-13 20:52:05

A man was hacked to death allegedly by his sons at Hazaribagh in the capital on Tuesday over land related dispute. The deceased was identified as Lal Miah, 50, a resident of Daskhshin Basila of Hazar...

Five gets death penalty for killing child after abduction

Five gets death penalty for killing child after abduction

-- 2020-10-12 17:11:07

A tribunal in Joypurhat on Monday sentenced five people to death for killing a two and a half years old girl after abduction in 2015. Judge of Joypurhat Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal...

NGO worker ‘gang raped’ in Bagerhat

NGO worker ‘gang raped’ in Bagerhat

-- 2020-10-11 23:08:06

Despite widespread protests against rape and the government’s plan to toughen the law in this regard, a female NGO worker was allegedly gang raped at her Maitkumra house at Fakirhat of Bagerhat...

Nine held over rapes of housewife, teenager in Ctg, Lalmonirhat

Nine held over rapes of housewife, teenager in Ctg, Lalmonirhat

-- 2020-10-10 16:53:23

Nine people were arrested over the alleged gang-rapes of a housewife in Chattogram and a teenager in Lalmonirhat on Friday. In Chattogram, a housewife was kidnapped as she was returning home on a ric...

75 held during anti-drug drives in city

75 held during anti-drug drives in city

-- 2020-10-10 16:43:57

Law enforcers arrested 75 persons and seized different types of contrabands narcotics from their possession during anti-drug drives in the capital in last 24 hours as of 6:00am today (Saturday), an of...