Six months after the arson attacks on the country’s two leading dailies -- The Daily Star and Prothom Alo -- the investigation remains stalled despite a direct ministerial directive for its swift completion.

An accused in the murder case of a seven-year-old girl in Lalmonirhat has confessed in court, saying he killed the child to avenge a dispute between two families over irrigation water for farmland.

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced a man to death for abducting and murdering a five-year-old girl in 2022, dismembering her body into six pieces and dumping the remains across different parts of the city.

A serving police officer told a tribunal yesterday that a former superintendent of police of Barishal brought in two assistant sub-inspectors from a nearby police station to stage the 2015 “crossfire” killing of two BNP-linked local leaders after officers of Agailjhara Police Station refused to carry out the order.

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced a man to life imprisonment in a case filed over the rape of a four-year-old girl in the port city’s Bakalia area.

After an eighth grader was found dead at a school dormitory in Lakshmipur’s Ramganj upazila, his family has alleged that senior students beat him to death over accusations of stealing a mobile phone.

Four arrested as police investigate killing

Authorities asked to explain why Tk 5 crore should not be awarded

Missing phone and limited information about the slain “top criminal’s” contacts have stalled the investigation

Police say the suspect told the court he acted out of revenge and that his parents helped bury the body in a maize field

Miscreants allegedly broke into the victim’s home, tied up her husband

Chattogram court says the dismemberment and desecration of the child’s body aggravated the gravity of the 2022 crime

All accused are teenagers, including one minor

He had alleged torture by seniors in complaint with school; family says he was beaten to death

Arrest made shortly after case was filed, police say

Family claims he was murdered in Brahmanbaria clash on Sunday night

Police launch hunt for unidentified assailants

Police say dispute over alleged spitting in a dishwashing area escalated into a fatal attack

Landlord says she was a nurse; man identifying as her husband absconding

Two police officers and four suspected gangsters were injured during a drive in response to a daring daylight robbery incident in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur yesterday.