Shariful Islam

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

Crackdown on BNP men: Her one son killed, another behind bars

It was a fateful night for Fazilatunnesa’s family. Ruling party men stormed her house in Wari at midnight, just two nights before the BNP's December 10 grand rally -- killing one of her sons and whisking away another son. All these happened because of her grandson's involvement with BNP's politics, she said.

16 December 2022, 01:00 AM

Police crackdown in city: Hoteliers count losses as guests stay clear

Many hoteliers and owners of shared living facilities in the capital are facing losses due to a sharp decline in guests since the ongoing police drives started on December 1.

8 December 2022, 01:00 AM

Ghost cases haunting BNP men

Ishaq Islam, president of a union unit of pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, and 300 others blocked Narayanganj Ring Road on November 20, blasted crude bombs, and vandalised vehicles, according to a case filed against them.

7 December 2022, 01:00 AM

Mystery still shrouds Fardin’s death

Failing to get any evidence of murder during the month-long investigation, Detective Brach of police is now also looking into whether Buet student Fardin Noor Parash was killed in an accident, or whether he committed suicide.

3 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Operation of Jama’atul Ansar: Officials trace transaction of over Tk 1.5cr

A new militant outfit has received funds from donors in the country and at least six Bangladeshi expatriates, said Rab and counterterrorism officers.

10 November 2022, 02:20 AM

Jahangir ‘spent on’ events that never happened

Suspended Gazipur City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Jahangir Alam may have pocketed at least Tk 1.57 crore from the city corporation fund in the pretext of celebrating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary in 2020, according to an internal investigation by the city authorities.

5 November 2022, 02:00 AM

73pc crimes went unreported in 2018

Seventy-three percent victims of various crimes committed in 2018 never reported those to cops, reveals a survey commissioned by Bangladesh Police.

18 October 2022, 02:30 AM

Errant cops: Leniency lends them impunity

Complaints about police’s involvement in various crimes continue to pile up thanks to lenient disciplinary measures that embolden errant cops, say criminologists and legal experts.

4 October 2022, 02:00 AM

Gazipur road widening: Compensation unpaid, yet work resumes

The Gazipur City Corporation has resumed widening streets and construction of drains and footpaths without compensating those who lost land for the development work.

14 September 2022, 02:40 AM

Dhaka underworld: Top criminals hold the reins from abroad

Several Bangladeshi mob bosses holed up abroad have been pulling the strings behind criminal activities here with the authorities unable to bring them back for trial.

11 September 2022, 02:00 AM

Tk 2,000cr laundering case: Key suspects cleared of wrongdoing

As members of a powerful syndicate, they allegedly manipulated tenders left and right and took cuts from numerous contracts across government offices in Faridpur.

10 September 2022, 02:00 AM

‘Raped, blackmailed and cheated’ in Mauritius

Desperate to lift her family out of poverty, Roksana (real name withheld) flew to Mauritius three years ago to work as a sewing machine operator.

2 September 2022, 02:00 AM

Many militants still at large

Sanwar Hossain joined Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in 2000, influenced by none other than the banned outfit’s then supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman.

16 August 2022, 18:00 PM

Dept of Youth Dev: Investigation finds promotions were illegal

When the Department of Youth Development (DYD) last year prepared a list of 1,175 officers to be promoted to a higher position, Rafiqul Islam Sheikh’s position was 497.

12 August 2022, 18:00 PM

Death lurks at unsafe level crossings

Accidents at unprotected level crossings continue to claim lives as decisions taken at an inter-ministerial meeting around one and a half years back to curb such fatalities remained largely unimplemented.

29 July 2022, 18:00 PM

Mirpur-10 mired in gridlocks

Mirpur-10 roundabout has become a nightmare for commuters, as parked vehicles, hawkers and garbage have made gridlocks a constant presence there.

23 July 2022, 03:00 AM

Homegoers get stuck in tailbacks

People going to their hometowns from Dhaka to spend Eid suffered immensely due to shortage of buses, long tailbacks on the highways and delayed trains.

8 July 2022, 18:00 PM

CTTC to start deradicalising militants in jail this month

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit is going to start a long-overdue process of deradicalising militants inside prisons from this month.

30 June 2022, 18:00 PM

6 years of Holey Artisan café attack: Neo JMB on the wane, some groups active online

Militant group Neo-JMB, which carried out a deadly attack at a Gulshan restaurant in 2016, currently has no strength to carry out another attack, but officers and security analysts see several other groups as threats.