The woman and child, whose bodies were recovered from the Buriganga along with two others on Saturday, were strangled before being dumped in the river, police said yesterday.

One person was killed and another injured after being beaten by locals on allegations of robbery in Bauphal upazila of Patuakhali early yesterday.

Child rape cases in Bangladesh have surged by nearly 75 percent in the first seven months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to data from Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK).

Police intimidated the physician who conducted the autopsy on Begum Rokeya University (BRU) student Abu Sayed into changing his post-mortem report five times.

A special investigative team of the Criminal Investigation Department conducted an operation in Barisal and arrested him tonight

Names and identities of 14 fishermen have not yet been confirmed

Victim’s father filed a case this evening

Local communities allege police inaction as killings, abductions persist

Asked to reply within seven working days

The court also issued a rule asking the respondents to explain why they should not be directed to reinstate the terminated officers of Al-Arafah Islami Bank to their offices

He was shown arrested in a case lodged over the killing of Tarik Mohammad Saiful Islam, former president of Islami Chhatra Shibir Meherpur district wing

The meeting was held at the Foreign Service Academy

Police last night arrested a man in connection with a case filed over the rape of a seven-year-old girl in Netrokona

Fingerprint matching could not be done as the bodies had decomposed

Department of Archaeology asked to submit within 60 days

A case has been filed against the drivers of a Hanif Paribahan bus and a cement-laden lorry over the deaths of four members of a family in a road accident at Paduar Bazar in Cumilla.

River police recovered four bodies, including that of a woman and a child, from the Buriganga river in Old Dhaka yesterday.

The mother of 15-year-old Md Rihan Uddin Mahin, who was mercilessly beaten to death by a mob on theft allegations in Chattogram's Fatikchhari upazila early yesterday, has filed a murder case accusing 15 people...The case was filed with Fatikchhari Police Station last night, accusing

Police recovered the 27-year-old’s body early Friday

Police produced him before the court on the expiry of his five-day remand