Before mercilessly beating 35-year-old Tofazzal Hossain at Dhaka University’s Fazlul Haque Muslim Hall, the attackers demanded Tk 35,000 from his family as compensation for stolen mobile phones.
Amid increased vigilance and special drives, muggers continue to terrorise city streets. Recent crime data shows a rise in mugging incidents.
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.
Law enforcers only watch as some Mozambicans loot shops and set fire to homes belonging to Bangladeshis. Sometimes, the groups extort money from Bangladeshis by threatening to attack them, their homes or businesses.
In the beginning of the year, the police were accused of being a tool implementing “Sheikh Hasina’s engineered election”, then they became the heavy hand attempting to crush the mass uprising. Days after Hasina’s ouster, the force appeared to have disintegrated. And now, they are trying to gain public trust in combating crime.
Amid the ongoing conflicts in Myanmar, Rohingyas are crossing into Bangladesh at different points of the 270km border between the two countries.
At least 30,000 foreign nationals, mostly from India and China, are currently residing in Bangladesh with expired visas and have yet to apply for extensions or renewals of their documents.
After 13 years of legal battle, BNP leader Moinul Islam and seven others have been acquitted in a case filed over arson, vandalism, and assault on law enforcers in Mohakhali.
Before mercilessly beating 35-year-old Tofazzal Hossain at Dhaka University’s Fazlul Haque Muslim Hall, the attackers demanded Tk 35,000 from his family as compensation for stolen mobile phones.
Amid increased vigilance and special drives, muggers continue to terrorise city streets. Recent crime data shows a rise in mugging incidents.
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.
Law enforcers only watch as some Mozambicans loot shops and set fire to homes belonging to Bangladeshis. Sometimes, the groups extort money from Bangladeshis by threatening to attack them, their homes or businesses.
In the beginning of the year, the police were accused of being a tool implementing “Sheikh Hasina’s engineered election”, then they became the heavy hand attempting to crush the mass uprising. Days after Hasina’s ouster, the force appeared to have disintegrated. And now, they are trying to gain public trust in combating crime.
Amid the ongoing conflicts in Myanmar, Rohingyas are crossing into Bangladesh at different points of the 270km border between the two countries.
At least 30,000 foreign nationals, mostly from India and China, are currently residing in Bangladesh with expired visas and have yet to apply for extensions or renewals of their documents.
After 13 years of legal battle, BNP leader Moinul Islam and seven others have been acquitted in a case filed over arson, vandalism, and assault on law enforcers in Mohakhali.
Commission remained hostage to partisan political and bureaucratic influence, which made it dysfunctional, says chief of ACC Reform Commission
Khorshed Alam, a Bangladeshi migrant worker in Malaysia, wanted to renew his machine-readable passport in June as his year-long employment visa is about to expire this month.
