Law and Order
Ansar-VDP to control traffic, provide security at police stations, HSIA
Forces already being deployed, says DG
Restore law and order immediately: DCCI
The leading chamber wants quick formation of interim government
One, two, three of social deceptions
What people like Milton Samaddar and Tipu Kibria show us about society.
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.
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.
Rights Advocacy / 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
‘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.
2 crude bombs recovered in Dhaka
Police recover two crude bombs from Shukrabad area of Dhaka.
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.
Hussaini Dalan blast: 5 JMB men remanded
A Dhaka court places five members of the militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on a five-day remand over the bomb attack on Shia Muslim community headquarters, Hussaini Dalan, in Dhaka.
Claim of IS presence ploy to taint Bangladesh's image: PM
PM Hasina says a vested quarter is cooking a plot behind the scene to taint Bangladesh’s image to create a situation like in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Syria by saying that there is the presence of Islamic State (IS) in the country.
Panic grips people after cop murder: BNP
BNP spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon says the country’s law and order cannot be called “normal” when law enforcers are being killed by criminals.