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.
A conflict has emerged between the Aviation Security Force (AVSEC) and the Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) over security responsibilities at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). APBn claims that AVSEC took control of their office on October 28, hindering their ability to perform duties effectively
Since its formation nearly two decades ago to curb organised crime and terrorism, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has been dogged by serious allegations of human rights violations. Rights activists and critics accused it of morphing into a “government death squad” that operated with impunity.
Dalia Begum, 65, has spent decades rolling biri at a factory in the Kashipur area of Barishal.
When you think about child labour in Bangladesh, your mind might first drift to the sights of children toiling in construction sites without any safety precaution, inhaling toxic fumes in welding workshops, or dismantling ship parts in a dockyard.
A sharp rise in the smuggling of cocaine, which mainly enters Bangladesh from African and South American countries, has become a new headache for authorities.
The question arises, if the passport employees got a trace of Shirin Sharmin then how come the police did not?
An overarching sense of frustration, apprehension, and opportunism prevails over the police force, rendering it virtually dysfunctional.
Police members sued for murder, attempted murder, and kidnapping during the quota reform protests in July-August will only be arrested if there is specific evidence against them.
Nasir Biswas, a 26-year-old mason, was walking close to the Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard in the capital’s Mohammadpur on the evening of September 20.
Rohingyas, on the way to Bangladesh from Maungdaw town, were allegedly bringing parts of the machines
A week has passed since the government launched a joint drive to recover firearms, but law enforcers have yet to calculate the actual number of firearms licences issued during the 15-year tenure of the Awami League government.
At least 2,241 inmates, including 88 on death row, fled from prisons before and after the mass uprising but a large number of them are yet to be found.
Many well-off inmates carry out illegal activities inside prisons by bribing a section of jail staffers.
Police have been largely absent on the ground in the one month since the fall of the Hasina-led government amid a mass uprising, causing safety concerns for the public.
Despite repeated calls by the government to submit the looted firearms and bullets to nearby police stations, over 3 lakh bullets and 2,000 guns remain missing.
Beximco Group laundered at least $135 million by exporting goods through 18 companies without repatriation of the export value, said the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday.
