Dhaka February 18, 2026, 12:19 pm
A college student was hacked to death in the city early Tuesday while going to his village home in Dinajpur to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with the family.
Three people, including an accused in a gang-rape case , were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ in Mymensingh and Habiganj districts early Monday.
Police arrested a woman with 1000 Yaba tablets, four bottles of phensedyl at Kukna village in Magura sadar upazila on Sunday night.
Three suspected robbers and a drug peddler were killed in separate‘gunfights’at Nurullaghona hill and Dorgapara of Marine Drive road in Teknafupazila early Saturday.
A suspected rapist was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Maliara village in Patiya upazila early Tuesday.
Police recovered the body of a schoolgirl from the Chhoto Jamuna River in Panchbibi upazila here on Monday night, 12 hours after she went missing from the district town.
Police have detained a madrasa teacher in Fatulla of the city for reportedly trying to sexually assault a student.
Police here on Monday night arrested a man who allegedly raped a six-year-old girl at Railbagan Slum of the district town.
At least 840 people have been killed in mob beatings in the country since January 1, 2011 as the heinous crime is going on with a public perception that the perpetrators of such brutal act go unpunished, said experts.
haka Metropolitan Police's (DMP) Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) has arrested five members of a family for their alleged link with the banned militant outfit Ansar-al-Islam—also known as the Ansarullah Bangla Team—from the Rupnagar
A teenager, suspected to have been involved in the lynching of a woman in Badda, was arrested in Narayanganj’s Bhulta on Tuesday night.
Two suspected drug peddlers, including a Rohingya man, were killed in a reported gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila on early Wednesday.
Police on Sunday night arrested three people from Ali Mor area in Uttar Badda here in connection with the lynching a woman on Saturday following a child-lifting rumour.
Despite the warning by the police administration not to take the law into own hands, angry mobs continued to attack suspected child-lifters in different districts, killing another man and injuring 12 others.
The police administration on Saturday urged all not to take law into own hands by resorting to mass beating suspecting someone as a child-lifter.
An alleged drug trader was killed in a ‘gunfight’ in Harra area of Sadar upazila here early Friday.
Police on Thursday announced the arrest of another suspect accused of murdering a youth in broad daylight in the district town last month.
Police took Aysha Siddika Minni to the police super’s office on Tuesday morning for interrogation over the gruesome murder of her husband Rifat Sharif who was hacked to death in front of her in the district town on June 26.
With the arrest of two teachers in the district in a span of only one week for repeatedly raping a number of students here, many guardians have become worried about the safety of their children.
A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Lengurbil Mathchara in Teknaf upazila Wednesday midnight.
