Woman dies after muggers snatch her bag from rickshaw
30 August 2026
A 56-year-old primary school headteacher from Bogura, who was in the capital for eye treatment, died after falling from a moving rickshaw when two muggers snatched her bag yesterday.
30 August 2026
The hassle of finding a hearing date
29 August 2026
Lawyer Hasan Mahmud attended a hearing in a cheque dishonour case at Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court 8 on June 15.
29 August 2026
Aug 21 blast probe, trial: Skewed from the get-go
21 August 2026
Twenty-two years after the August 21 grenade attack, the case remains one of the most consequential unresolved cases in Bangladesh’s history.
21 August 2026
Once he played the villain opposite Salman Shah. Now he is accused in his murder case
9 August 2026
30 years after the actor’s death, longtime co-star Don has been sent to jail as CID investigates the case
9 August 2026
2 years on, July cases move at a crawl
16 July 2026
Two years after losing her son during the July uprising, Bithy Begum’s long wait for justice has turned her grief into anguish.
16 July 2026
Attacks on Star, Prothom Alo: 6 months on, probe at a standstill
18 June 2026
Six months after the arson attacks on the country’s two leading dailies -- The Daily Star and Prothom Alo -- the investigation remains stalled despite a direct ministerial directive for its swift completion.
18 June 2026
Pro-AL lawyers ‘shut out’ of at least 13 bar elections
12 May 2026
Around 200 lawyers aligned with the Awami League -- a party whose activities are currently banned under the Anti-Terrorism Act -- have been unable to contest at least 13 bar association elections since January, according to members of lawyers’ associations across the country.
12 May 2026
DB raid nets 8kg heroin and one of its own
30 April 2026
Serving constable among two remanded as police investigate alleged drug network across Dhaka and outskirts
30 April 2026
Killing of 3 Mirpur boys: 7 years on, no answer
On February 22, 2015, three adolescent boys were shot dead in the capital’s Mirpur area during a violent political movement, on suspicion that they were arsonists linked to the opposition party.
2 February 2022
Looking back at 2021’s noteworthy judgments
Several important cases, which went on for years, were disposed of in Dhaka’s lower courts in 2021, amid the pandemic.
31 December 2021
Sony, Dwip Murder Trials: Neglected, they see no closure
Twenty Buet students were handed death sentence and five others life imprisonment this month for the murder of their fellow student Abrar Fahad inside a university dorm on October 7, 2019.
22 December 2021
BUET student abrar murder verdict: 20 students get death
Twenty Buet students were sentenced to death yesterday for their direct involvement in the murder of a fellow student in a dorm room, an incident that shocked the nation two years ago.
8 December 2021
This must not happen to any other child
The parents of slain Buet student Abrar Fahad said they do not want to see anyone else being killed by fellow students on university campuses like their son was.
8 December 2021
Killing of Six in Aminbazar: 13 sentenced to death, 19 to life
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced 13 people to death and 19 others to life imprisonment for the killing of six students in Aminbazar on the outskirts of the capital more than 10 years ago.
2 December 2021
9 years of Tazreen tragedy: Victims don’t believe justice will ever be done
Trial proceedings of a lawsuit over Tazreen Fashions fire made no significant progress in six years as prosecutors kept failing to bring witnesses to court.
23 November 2021
Allegation of Kishore’s Torture: PBI sees no evidence
There is no definite evidence that one or more people picked up cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore from home and tortured him physically and mentally in May last year, according to a police probe.
16 November 2021
Farmers Bank Loan Scam: Ex-chief justice Sinha gets 11yrs
Former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was the principal beneficiary of the illegal loans approved for him in violation of the Farmers Bank’s credit policy, a Dhaka court observed in its verdict yesterday.
9 November 2021
1 man, 3 cases, and ‘sentiment’
Lawyer Imrul Hasan has filed an application with a court, seeking withdrawal of the case he filed against members of popular band Meghdol, just five days after the filing.
4 November 2021
Probir gets justice
A journalist who wrote in favour of the Liberation War and against war criminals and war crimes, and suffered assaults because of it, was yesterday acquitted of charges in a case filed under the ICT Act in 2015 over a Facebook post.
9 September 2021
Xulhaz-Tonoy Murder: Killers’ goal was to gag free speech
The common goal of the Ansar al Islam militants who killed LGBT rights activist Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy was to clamp down on people’s freedom of expression and independent activities by creating terror in the country.
31 August 2021
Attack on Bank Officials: Police probe clears Sikder brothers
Police dropped the names of Ron Haque Sikder, managing director of Sikder Group, and his brother, from the investigation report of a case filed against them abducting, torturing and opening fire on two Exim Bank officials over permission for a loan.
9 August 2021
Lockdown Detainees: Crammed in vans, at risk of catching Covid
People arrested for defying the ongoing lockdown are being taken to courts in packed prison vans, raising their chances of contracting Covid-19 and spreading it to their families.
8 July 2021
Violating Lockdown: Detainees mostly poor, now prey to court frauds
Morzina Begum was waiting anxiously outside the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka Tuesday morning. Her younger son, Mohammad Hasan, was arrested by Hazaribagh police Monday night for being out during the lockdown.
7 July 2021
No headway for a decade in 30yr-old robbery case
Even though a decade has passed, trial of a case filed over the robbery at Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) 30 years ago has not made any headway.
24 June 2021
Indian citizen enters Bangladesh illegally, visits Padma bridge; police press charge in 2 hours
After two hours of investigation, Shariatpur police today pressed charges against a 42-year-old Indian citizen, who entered Bangladesh without proper documents and visited Padma Bridge project site in Jajira late last night.
24 June 2021
It was ‘factual error’; no evidence found
The forgery case filed against Aparajita International proprietor Sharmin Jahan was a matter of factual error, a police probe report has found.
21 June 2021
They defrauded 6,000 patients
An organised crime gang, in line with the instructions from Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed, played a role in spreading Covid-19 virus in the country by preparing fake test reports, a Rab probe has found.
18 June 2021
From cop to drug trader
He liked having yaba. And it was cheap too. He knew a lot of people like him were addicted to the crazy pills. He saw the potential of making a lot of money that too very quickly if he started trading the drug instead of just consuming.
9 June 2021