The Detective Branch of police has arrested an expelled leader of Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad in an extortion case involving the family of former Awami League MP Shammi Ahmed in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

The scourge of chandabaji has been eating away at business profits and also depleting the take-home wages of workers.

In the video footage, Ashraful is seen holding a receipt book and demanding money from the car owner

A contractor was shot dead by assailants in the Rail Bazar area of Jashore town last night for allegedly refusing to pay extortion money.

“Steps taken by the government so far failed to bring down prices of essential commodities,” said CPD Executive Director Fahmida Khatun

Crimes such as murder, extortion and robbery continue to plague various parts of the country despite efforts by law enforcement agencies.

In November last year, a contractor secured the work to demolish a building in Dhaka’s Moghbazar for Tk 16.5 lakh. Shortly afterwards, members of a local gang arrived at the site and demanded Tk 3 lakh to allow the work to proceed.

Sub-Inspector Anup Biswas was hospitalised for nearly two weeks after being hit in the head by a chunk of brick during the quota reforms protests in the capital’s Rampura on July 18.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali has said the police are making a list of extortionists and will soon launch drives to arrest them.

Extortion is continuing after the recent political changeover in the country. The void left behind by the previous extortionists has been filled by new ones.

On the footpath next to the General Post Office in the capital, Sohel Howlader sells children’s clothes from a small table.

A trader died after a local gang attacked him for not paying the money they demanded as extortion in Dhaka's Mirpur area last night, his family said

The Criminal Investigation Department has found involvement of at least 30 people in laundering Tk 2,000 crore while investigating a case filed against two Faridpur brothers Sajjad Hossain Barkat and Imtiaz Hasan Rubel. 

Former LGRD minister and Awami League MP Khandker Mosharraf Hossain’s fall from grace continued yesterday as he was removed from the post of chief of the parliamentary standing committee on the LGRD ministry.

Nuruzzaman Raju owned a mobile phone repair shop in the capital’s Gulistan.

The elder brother of Paul Pogba and four others are "likely to be charged" on Saturday in an extortion case targeting the French football star, judicial sources said.

Authorities must fix existing challenges to bring them back for trial

Authorities must address the grim findings of TIB survey on corruption.

DSCC must take action against the authorised company for harassing vehicle drivers

It was a sombre occasion at the Dhaka Reporters Unity premises on April 30.