Rafiul Islam

Riyad-led group targeted another former AL MP

The group led by former Students Against Discrimination leader Abdur  Razzak Riyad, arrested for allegedly extorting a former Awami League  lawmaker’s family in Gulshan, had targeted another ex-AL MP, Abdul Kalam  Azad, a month earlier, said police.

3d ago

Govt launches combing operation

The government has launched a combing operation “to root out crime and restore public order” amid a spate of criminal activities across the country.

2w ago

Weight chart for prison staffers

Launched for the first time, the initiative aims to foster a more disciplined, smart, and health-conscious prison force through exercise and dietary regulation, prisons officials said.

4w ago

Police suspect foul play, await autopsy results

Police suspect foul play in the deaths of a couple and their son, whose bodies were found at a hotel in Dhaka's Moghbazar on Sunday.

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City chokes as protests wreak havoc

Ninety-six-year-old Nurjahan Begum left her home in Old Dhaka’s Mogholtuli for her daughter’s house in Banasree around 2:00pm yesterday.

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From ‘TikTokers’ to murderers

What began as a seemingly harmless obsession with TikTok turned into a chilling tale of murder in Dhaka's Hazaribagh, where a photographer was killed on May 16.

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Five-year-old girl strangled to death in city

On Monday afternoon, five-year-old Roza Moni got hungry while playing in front of her house in Tejgaon’s Tejkunipara. She went to her mother and asked for lunch, but the meal was not ready yet.

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Anti-rape protest: 12 sued for attacking cops

Two of the accused in a case over attacking police during anti-rape protests in Dhaka on Tuesday have said they were not present at the scene during the clash.

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October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024

Was with the student movement till the end: ZI Khan Panna

Noted SC lawyer was recently sued in case filed over shooting youth during the movement

October 10, 2024
October 10, 2024

Racing buses end the tale of two sisters

Like any other day, Tasnim Jahan Irene and her sister Nusrat Jahan Zerin were heading to their office – Next Venture – in the capital’s Uttar Badda in an auto-rickshaw from Mirpur.

October 9, 2024
October 9, 2024

An unholy race between buses tears two sisters apart

One killed, one injured after being run over by bus in Dhaka's Badda

October 8, 2024
October 8, 2024

Rab will no longer get involved in killings: DG

Rab will never again get involved in incidents such as enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, the force’s Director General AKM Shahidur Rahman has said.

October 7, 2024
October 7, 2024

A curious tale of two cases

Two cases were filed over the killing of two men in the capital’s Jatrabari during the mass uprising that toppled the Awami League government.

October 1, 2024
October 1, 2024

Hasina's 'Tk 400cr peon' laundered most of his wealth abroad: CID

Jahangir Alam, an ex-staffer at former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's residence, has siphoned off a large part of his over Tk 400 crore fortune abroad, Criminal Investigation Department found in primary investigation

September 22, 2024
September 22, 2024

Dubious cases weaken quest for justice

A man named Labhlu Mia was shot dead in the capital’s Uttara during protests on the morning of August 5.

September 22, 2024
September 22, 2024

Infighting rears up in BNP after Hasina’s fall

In the last five and a half years of Awami League rule, at least 13 BNP leaders and activists got killed in clashes between factions of the party and attacks by ruling AL men.

September 11, 2024
September 11, 2024

Traffic police move against battery-run rickshaws on major roads

The move has brought some relief to commuters, as the high-speed rickshaws have been causing accidents.

September 5, 2024
September 5, 2024

A father’s search for his son ends in tragic death

Hasan Ahmed Bishal last spoke to his father Shahin Hawlader over the phone on the night of August 25, when he and his fellow students were heading towards the Secretariat, which was surrounded by Ansar members.