Belgian police have arrested a total of five people including two brothers during a series of arrests in connection with last month’s Paris attacks, prosecutors said yesterday, reports AFP from Brussels. Police arrested the two brothers and a third person in a raid on a house near the main tourist…

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted chargesheet in a murder case filed over Rana Plaza collapse and issued arrest warrant against 24 fugitives who are accused in the case. Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Al-Amin passed the order after taking cognizance of the chargesheet submitted by Criminal Investigation…

The results of Primary and Ebtedayee Terminal Examinations will be published on December 31, reports UNB. Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman will announce the results at a press briefing at the ministry on the day, said a handout yesterday. Some 32,54,514 students appeared in this…

Awami League has suspended its three rebel candidates for the municipal elections in three upazilas of Jessore district, slated for December 30. The suspended candidates are identified as SM Saifur Rahman Babul, Joint General Secretary of Chowgachha upazila unit of AL, Faruk Hossain, Joint General Secretary…

A member of Jamaat-e-Islami central committee was arrested in the capital yesterday from the Dhanmondi house of Daily Naya Diganta Managing Director. The arrestee, Mezbah Uddin Bhuiyan, 50, was arrested from Naya Diganta MD Shibbir Mahmud's Dhanmondi residence at around 12:30am, said Mohammad Helal…

Guatemalan authorities yesterday held 33 undocumented migrants from Nepal and Bangladesh while being transported in a bus on the outskirts of the capital and presumed to be trying to make it to the US, reports AFP. The group, all men, was arrested on Sunday in the east of Guatemala City during a police…

Three people were killed and two others injured in a landslide alongside an under-construction bridge at Habibullahpur in Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha yesterday, reports UNB. The victims were identified as Kuddus, 38, Sattar, 20, and Kakuli. Officer-in-charge of Sadullapur Police Station Farhad Imrul…