Police seek to clear Iresh Zaker, ex-cabinet secretary Mahbub Hossain from July uprising murder case
List of accused includes 24 journalists, businesspersons, doctors
23 October 2025, 16:51 PM
Justice eludes women, children as trials drag on
Experts warn delays are letting offenders walk free
25 September 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Tk 568cr scam’: BTRC sues Beximco and IGW top brass
The telecom regulator has filed a case against Beximco Group Chairman Ahmed Sohail Fasihur Rahman, Vice-Chairman Salman Fazlur Rahman, CEO Shayan F Rahman, and 22 current and former members of the IGW Operators Forum (IOF), accusing them of embezzling over Tk 568 crore.
19 September 2025, 18:33 PM
Cybercrime cases pile up as trials stall for years
204 cases filed under cyber laws that have remained pending with eight cyber tribunals across the country for more than five years
12 September 2025, 19:28 PM
Then who set fire to Mohanganj Express?
For Karwan Bazar hardware shop manager Mizanur Rahman, life has not been the same since the night his world turned to ashes. His wife Nadira Akter Popy, 32, and their three-year-old son Yeasin were among four people killed when arsonists set fire to the Dhaka-bound Mohanganj Express in Tejgaon on December 19, 2023.
10 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Shamim Molla murder: Ten months on, court order yet to reach investigators
Shamim Molla, a former student of Jahangirnagar University, was reportedly beaten to death on campus on September 18 last year by a group of students who accused him of involvement in the attack on anti-quota protesters on July 15.
8 September 2025, 19:32 PM
The forgotten boys of Mirpur
For a decade now, 54-year-old house help Jyotsna Robi Das has been seeking justice for the killing of her son.
4 July 2025, 21:06 PM
2018 Nighttime voting: Ex-CEC Huda blames govt officials
Former chief election commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday told a court that he had been “kept in the dark” about the nighttime voting during the 2018 national election and blamed overenthusiastic government officials for the irregularities.
1 July 2025, 18:38 PM
Bank exam question leak: Buet Prof Nikhil finally charged
Buet Prof Nikhil Ranjan Dhar was finally charged with involvement in bank recruitment question paper leak even though the investigation officer (IO) had earlier dropped his name from the charge sheet.
31 January 2023, 14:08 PM
Finally free from the clutches of influentials
Dhaka district administration is planning to make the historic Brajo Niketan, located in Dhaka’s Nawabganj, a heritage site, as authorities recently retrieved it from three decades of illegal occupation.
3 January 2023, 18:00 PM
ASI who framed trader possessed yaba
A police probe has found that an assistant sub-inspector, who arrested a trader for possession of yaba in September, illegally possessed 100 yaba pills.
27 December 2022, 18:00 PM
1,223 BNP men arrested in nine days
Police arrested a total of 1,223 BNP leaders and activists from different parts of the capital and produced them before the court in nine days just before the party's December 10 rally.
12 December 2022, 03:52 AM
Case records go missing from court
Records and documents of four narcotics cases have gone missing about 10 months ago from a Dhaka court, raising questions about the security measures at the record room.
12 December 2022, 01:00 AM
Locked up for no reason
Amatullah Bushra, a friend of slain Buet student Fardin Noor Parash, has been in jail for four weeks although the law enforcers found no evidence of her involvement in Fardin’s murder.
3 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Executed before trial even began!
Trial of the narcotics case filed against Lesedi Molapisi, a woman from Botswana, is yet to begin at a Dhaka court. But several African media outlets have reported that Molapisi is set to be executed or has been executed for smuggling 3 kilos of heroin into Bangladesh.
1 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Fraudsters exploit former justice’s good nature
Former justice Bhabani Prasad Singha is well known for his humanitarian work. And due to this very renown, a fraud gang decided to target him six months ago.
30 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Charges pressed against 2 DSCC staffers among 3
Russel Khan -- who was neither a Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) staffer nor a driver by profession -- drove the DSCC garbage truck that rammed into a 12th-grader of Notre Dame College in Dhaka’s Gulistan area a year ago, found a police probe.
25 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Tazreen Tragedy: The never-ending wait
Maya Begum, a survivor of the blaze that engulfed Tazreen factory 10 years ago, is losing all hope for justice, or financial assistance for that matter, as proceedings of the case centring this incident is progressing at a snail’s pace.
23 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Shariatpur youth ‘mauled in DNC’s custody’
As with most evenings, Nur Alom Madbar was hanging out at the Ganganagar Bazar in Shariatpur on August 10, when a group of men grabbed him and took him to a side alley.
20 November 2022, 02:20 AM
Police clear journalist Rozina of charges
Police have cleared Prothom Alo senior journalist Rozina Islam of the charges in an Official Secrets Act case.
25 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Earned Tk 52 lakh legally, bought flat worth Tk 3.09cr
As a government servant, the suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons, Bazlur Rashid, had earned only Tk 52 lakh legally during his service between 1993 and 2018.
23 October 2022, 08:07 AM
Pocketing Tk 21 lakh: Charges pressed against Evaly chairman, CEO
Two top bosses of the e-commerce platform Evaly pocketed Tk 21.62 lakh through digital forgery, a police probe in a Digital Security Act case has found.
15 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Blogger Oyasiqur killing: Complainant ‘unavailable’
Seven years into the murder of secularist blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, the complainant of the case appears uninterested in justice and the police are clueless about his whereabouts.
15 October 2022, 02:10 AM
Human trafficking cases: Only 1.5pc see conviction
Seven years ago, Mohammad Sabuj and his neighbour Mohiuddin Sarkar from Cumilla’s Daudkandi paid around Tk 13 lakh to six people who lured them with well-paying jobs in Germany.
8 October 2022, 02:30 AM
They confessed, yet not charged
A Dhaka court has found flaws in the charge sheet submitted by the Department of Narcotics Control in a case filed over the recovery of around 39,000 yaba pills from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in 2020.
29 September 2022, 18:00 PM
Digital security act: Sued at 17, JnU student in jail
Sued as an adult when she was actually 17 in 2020, a Jagannath University student has been languishing in jail under the Digital Security Act for almost a month.
18 September 2022, 02:50 AM
Copying govt docs: Ex-EC staffer sued under DSA, Official Secrets Act
A former staffer of the Shariatpur Sadar upazila election office has been sued under the Official Secrets Act for possessing photos of confidential documents, EC server passwords, and audio and video recordings of internal office conversations.
15 September 2022, 18:00 PM
‘Fabricated, fictitious’
Police have cleared Mohammad Khalil from charges of a narcotics case a few days after he was framed in the capital’s cantonment area by an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Pallabi Police Station and two informants.
12 September 2022, 18:00 PM