Once power brokers, now defendants
Smiles, whispers, and uneasy silence as 16 former ministers and high officials brought to ICT-1
15 October 2025, 10:09 AM
25 former, serving military officers charged at ICT
The prosecution yesterday formally charged 28 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 23 top and mid-ranking current and former army officers, at International Crimes Tribunal-1 in two cases of enforced disappearances, secret detention, and torture in the 15 years of her rule.
8 October 2025, 18:23 PM
ICT act amendment: Accused barred from election if formally charged
Those accused in cases filed with the International Crimes Tribunal will not be able to hold or run for public office once formal charges are pressed against them.
7 October 2025, 18:11 PM
Crimes against humanity: Four AL leaders likely to be charged soon
Four senior Awami League leaders, including former law minister Anisul Huq and deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s former adviser Salman F Rahman, may soon be formally charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the July uprising, according to the prosecution.
3 October 2025, 18:21 PM
Police adopt stringent criteria to select OCs
The move comes around five months before the country is expected to go to the national election in which OCs will play a key role in maintaining law and order.
14 September 2025, 19:31 PM
Abu Sayed Killing: ‘Forced to conceal pellet wounds in inquest report’
A police officer told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday that he was forced by a senior officer to conceal pellet injuries in the inquest report of Begum Rokeya University student Abu Sayed, who was killed in Rangpur at the beginning of the July uprising.
9 September 2025, 18:23 PM
Hasina, Kamal ordered shooting of July protesters
In a dramatic testimony before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday, former inspector general of police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun said the mass killings during last year’s July uprising were carried out on direct orders of then prime minister Sheikh Hasina and home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.
2 September 2025, 18:00 PM
‘I want to see justice before my death’
The father of Abu Sayed, a student of Begum Rokeya University (BRU) in Rangpur who was killed in police firing on July 16 last year, yesterday appealed to the International Crimes Tribunal-2 to ensure justice for his son before his own death.
28 August 2025, 18:03 PM
Neo-JMB leader confesses to killing missing man
A Neo-JMB leader has confessed to a court that a sleeper cell of the militant group killed a man whose photograph is uploaded on the website of SITE Intelligence Group.
16 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Renu’s Death in Mob Beating: Police submit charge sheet against 15
The police probe has found involvement of 19 people in the killing of Taslima Begum Renu in the capital’s Badda last year.
10 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Zero Border Killings: Promise that keeps ringing hollow
For years, India has been promising to bring the killing of Bangladeshis along the Indo-Bangla border down to zero.
10 September 2020, 18:00 PM
This will encourage people to file case
Eminent jurists and rights activists yesterday welcomed the first ever verdict in a case filed under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act 2013 and said it will encourage people to come forward to file cases under this act.
9 September 2020, 18:00 PM
A brother’s quest for justice may end today
Today is likely to be the culmination of a long and strenuous battle for justice.
8 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Air Traffic Control: New radar to usher in a new era
The purchase deal of a state-of-the-art radar system, long overdue for safe aircraft navigation and control of air traffic through the country’s airspace, is expected to be finalised in a couple of months.
1 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Of uncertainty and struggle
Parvez Hossain gave Tk 500 to his wife Farzeena Akhter before leaving home seven years ago. That was all she was left with.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Why did they need to make him disappear?
Every night Jahanara Khatun went to sleep in the hope that her husband would come home the next morning.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Crime spikes in capital as normalcy returns post Covid-19 closure
The capital, that saw a sharp decline in crime incidents during two-month lockdown has once again started to see a spike in crimes.
18 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Aug 17 Series Bomb Blasts: JMB weak but still a threat
Militant outfit JMB that struck terror across the country in 2005 has almost no strength to carry out any organised attack, but it is still a threat, counterterrorism officials believe.
16 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Police move to centralise their drug purchase
Medicine procurement for police personnel and their family members under different units outside Dhaka is being centralised to stop irregularities in the process.
13 August 2020, 18:00 PM
One year of Taslima’s murder: Probe drags on despite footage of crime
A year has gone by but little Tasmin Mahira Tuba’s search for her mother is still far from over.
19 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Of an alley, 33 flats, 2 brothers
In the densely populated Old Dhaka, Lane-1 of Lalmohon Saha Street has recently earned its own reputation, as the arrested “casino brothers” Enamul Haque Enu and Rupon Bhuiyan have 33 flats in that otherwise inconspicuous alley.
25 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Rape incidents rose by 19pc last year
On an average, 17 women and children were allegedly raped each day last year, shows data based on cases filed with police stations across the country.
18 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Woman killed in mob beating: no answers for little Tuba
Little Tasmin Mahira Tuba often wakes up in her sleep in the middle of the night and frantically starts looking for her mother, Taslima Begum Renu, who was beaten to death by a mob in July last year.
28 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Police in New Role: 67 inspectors to serve in BGB
Police officials, from now on, will also be posted at the Border Guard Bangladesh, mainly with the responsibility to make flawless seizure lists and prepare cases.
15 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Rohingyas Getting Passports: Top cops ask SB to stay alert
Top police officials have asked the Special Branch of police to remain alert so that Rohingyas do not get Bangladeshi passports in any way.
8 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Disposal of 35 Lakh Pending Cases: Cops for joint meet with judges, PPs
Director General of Rab Benazir Ahmed yesterday suggested that a joint meeting be held with all judges of lower courts, all public prosecutors (PPs) and police to identify ways to dispose of around 35 lakh cases pending with lower courts for trial.
7 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Police want postings on deputation
Police have demanded postings on deputation in the Anti-Corruption Commission, Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), BRTA, and BIWTA to look after the enforcement and investigation activities of those organisations.
6 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Police Week 2020: Demands pile up, unimplemented
Yet again, the police are going to place at least a dozen demands during this year’s Police Week though more than two dozen demands raised in the last two years remain largely unimplemented, say insiders.
5 January 2020, 18:00 PM