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
Tortured in Libya: Dreams for a better future now a nightmare
A good job with a handsome salary in Libya -- this is what was promised to Md Romel Mia around two months ago by a migrant trafficking gang.
8 April 2024, 18:00 PM
KNF gets arms, support from other side of border
The strong influence of armed group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) in Chin and Rakhine states of Myanmar and Mizoram and Manipur states of India has led to its creation in Bangladesh, said security analyst Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain.
6 April 2024, 18:00 PM
4 suspected robbers beaten to death
Villagers beat four people to death and severely injured another one in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila on Sunday night on suspicion that they were robbers.
18 March 2024, 18:00 PM
‘No one feels good at gunpoint’
The hostages on board the hijacked Bangladesh-flagged ship were taken to their cabins from the bridge after the pirates anchored the vessel as dawn broke over the Somali port of Garacad.
14 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Hijacked ship sailing fast to Somali shores
Neither the government nor the firm that owns the Bangladesh-flagged ship hijacked with 23 crew members has been able to contact the hostages or pirates as of last night.
13 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh-India Border: Zero death pledge rings hollow
Killing along the Bangladesh-India border marked a gradual rise over the last three years despite repeated state-level commitments to bring such killings down to zero.
8 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Shooting a student: Teacher bought illegal arms from bordering district
Rayhan Sharif, the arrested doctor who shot his student during a viva on Monday, had bought his two pistols illegally from a southern district.
6 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Taqi Murder: 11 years on, probe yet to be completed
Yet another year of the killing of Tanwir Muhammad Taqi in Narayanganj passed by and the investigating body, Rab, like the past nine years, said the investigation is still ongoing, prolonging the wait of Taqi’s parents for justice.
5 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Tragedies recur as inaction persists
After deadly fires like the one on Thursday that claimed 46 lives, authorities momentarily wake up from their slumber to prevent recurrences, but any such initiative loses steam as they fail to take concerted action.
1 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Meeting with PM: Cops want more power, benefits
Police officers want postings at the Anti-Corruption Commission, National Security Intelligence, Department of Narcotics Control, Department of Immigration and Passports, BRTA, and BIWTA.
29 February 2024, 18:00 PM
Graft at Youth Dev Dept: Govt fires four officials
The government yesterday dismissed four officials of the Department of Youth Development (DYD) from service on charges of corruption.
12 February 2024, 18:00 PM
4 sacked over graft at Youth Development Dept
The government today dismissed four officials of the Department of Youth Development (DYD) from service on charges of corruption
12 February 2024, 16:34 PM
Tensions spill over Tumbru border
At least 68 Myanmar border guards, 15 of them bullet-hit, took refuge in Bandarban yesterday as fighting raged close to the border in the district’s Tumbru area.
4 February 2024, 18:00 PM
Tk 150 fine, 5 days’ drill for cop who shot a man!
On a night in March 2019, Shahadat Hossain Shyamol and three of his friends were returning to their hometown in Keraniganj from Munshiganj on three motorcycles.
3 February 2024, 18:00 PM
Trafficking To Malaysia: Victims made to walk thru jungles, wade canals
A so-called broker in Dhaka promised Rasal Miah he would be taken to Malaysia and given a job at a construction site.
2 February 2024, 18:00 PM
Department of Youth Dev: Four officials to be sacked over Tk 13.96cr graft
The government is set to dismiss four officials of the Department of Youth Development (DYD) on charges of corruption involving Tk 13.96 crore.
31 January 2024, 18:00 PM
They tortured and watched him die
Saiful Islam Russel was lying on the floor -- motionless, blood oozing from his mouth, and bruises on his face and body.
17 January 2024, 18:00 PM
How Arav Khan preyed on migrants in Dubai
After slogging it out in Dubai for 16 years, Aynal Sipat Ali had saved up 131,000 UAE dirham (AED), which is about Tk 44 lakh. But he never got to enjoy the money thanks to Rabiul Islam, better known as Arav Khan.
13 January 2024, 18:00 PM
Police see dead man running
Prisoners, migrants, even the deceased get implicated in cases
5 December 2023, 18:00 PM
207 UNOs, 326 OCs to be transferred in 1st phase
Authorities have made primary lists of upazila nirbahi officers and officers-in-charge of police stations to transfer in the first phase of the Election Commission’s move to reposition all UNOs and OCs ahead of the January 7 national election.
3 December 2023, 18:00 PM