Law and Order
A community-driven approach to restoring law and order
The popular uprising that led to the downfall of the former regime has left law and order in a state of decline.
23 March 2025, 07:00 AM
Govt beefs up security on streets
Law enforcement agencies will increase the number of checkpoints in key locations across the capital
25 February 2025, 18:00 PM
The state of law and order has left daily commuters distressed
In a city where survival has taken the place of living, the loss of trust in law enforcement isn’t just personal—it’s a crack in the foundation of society.
9 January 2025, 09:18 AM
Ansar-VDP to control traffic, provide security at police stations, HSIA
Forces already being deployed, says DG
6 August 2024, 13:05 PM
Restore law and order immediately: DCCI
The leading chamber wants quick formation of interim government
6 August 2024, 11:13 AM
One, two, three of social deceptions
What people like Milton Samaddar and Tipu Kibria show us about society.
4 May 2024, 04:54 AM
The violence of silencing a rape survivor
That justice for rape survivors is a mirage in this country is no news, with a miserable conviction rate of three percent in rape cases.
3 February 2024, 02:00 AM
Police have nothing to do with politics, says new DMP commissioner
Newly appointed Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq today said police have nothing to do with politics.
31 October 2022, 08:51 AM
Right of the taxpayers to protect personal data
Data protection and privacy are recognised as fundamental rights. An individual’s ‘private life’ includes the protection of his or her personal
30 September 2022, 18:00 PM
Press charge if AL leader works against narco drive
Charges should be pressed against any ruling party men who would lobby for not taking action against drug dealers, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder told a views-exchange meeting yesterday.
4 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Peace, order new year's big challenge
Taking lessons from the past, law enforcement agencies are redoing their strategies to keep law and order under control in this election year.
As part of their plan, police and different intelligence agencies will prepare a fresh list of wanted criminals and probable political troublemakers ahead of the election and launch drives to arrest them. Special drives will also be made to recover illegal firearms, said a number of top police officials.
31 December 2017, 18:00 PM
No good governance if govt takes law in hand: Sultana Kamal
Good governance cannot be there if the government takes law in its hand to retain its existence somehow or other, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Chairperson Sultana Kamal says.
18 June 2016, 10:47 AM
UP polls: Voting suspended in Bagmara
Election Commission withholds all process for holding elections to all the 16 union councils of Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi.
5 May 2016, 16:24 PM
BGB deployed in Dhaka
A total of 14 platoons Border Guard Bangladesh members have been deployed in Dhaka city to avert any untoward incident ahead of Jamaat enforced tomorrow’s hartal.
8 March 2016, 13:19 PM
Stay alert so that Jamaat-Shibir cannot sneak into police: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks the authorities concerned to stay alert so that the Jamaat-Shibir activists and those involved in terrorist and militant acts could not be recruited in the police force.
24 February 2016, 16:02 PM
How they get freed on bail?
Members of the cabinet committee on law and order yesterday came down heavily on police for torturing a Bangladesh Bank official and a staff of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), saying those incidents had tarnished the image of the department.
31 January 2016, 18:00 PM
‘No bar to lodge case on torturer cop now’
There is no legal bar now to file a case over the incident of police torture on a Bangladesh Bank official, says Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon.
27 January 2016, 08:19 AM
‘Robber’ killed, 5 hurt in Satkhira ‘gunfight’
Alleged robber killed and five others including two policemen injured in a “gunfight” in Tala upazila of Satkhira. Seven accomplices arrested.
14 December 2015, 06:35 AM
2 crude bombs recovered in Dhaka
Police recover two crude bombs from Shukrabad area of Dhaka.
2 December 2015, 05:01 AM
6 Shibir leaders held with crude bombs
Police arrest six leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, with 11 crude bombs at a students' mess in Dhaka’s Arambagh area.
28 November 2015, 05:09 AM