A murder case without a murder: How a family’s life was turned upside down
29 May 2026
Chapainawabganj family says they spent around Tk 6 lakh fighting abduction and murder allegations
29 May 2026
Condemned to death, entitled to 8 free cigarettes a day
28 May 2026
Colonial-era jail code provision still keeps nearly 16,000 cigarettes flowing daily to death row inmates across Bangladesh’s prisons
28 May 2026
Negligence fuels surge in gas-related fires
7 March 2026
A couple of hours before dawn, 32-year-old Pinky Akter woke up and went to the kitchen to prepare sehri. Her family members were asleep.
7 March 2026
The knife she brought and the murders that followed
10 December 2025
Suspect Ayesha told the family she had neither a phone nor an NID
10 December 2025
‘We teach, but we can’t feed our children’
19 October 2025
Mohammad Ishak, who has been teaching at a madrasa in Sylhet for over 34 years, draws a monthly salary of only Tk 26,980 -- hardly enough to support his family and cover the educational expenses of his three children.
19 October 2025
Recovery of Looted Firearms: Announcing rewards brings no fruition
4 September 2025
Despite the home ministry’s announcement of significant rewards 10 days ago, no actionable information has been provided to the police regarding the firearms looted during last year’s July uprising.
4 September 2025
43 bodies a month recovered from rivers this year
29 August 2025
Bodies of a woman and a child were recovered from the Buriganga River on August 23. Autopsies initially found that they had been strangled before their bodies were dumped. A murder case was filed with Sadarghat River Police Station in this regard.
29 August 2025
Cocaine haul raises transit route concerns
26 August 2025
A Guyanese national was arrested with around 8.6kg of cocaine at Dhaka airport yesterday, and officials said the drug was not meant for local use.
26 August 2025
Special children to have playground of their own
Arijit Chakma Prithu has a disliking for claw hair clips. One afternoon six years ago this autistic young man was out walking in the city's Chandrima Udyan. He saw a girl with such a clip and grabbed it.
4 March 2017
Lax verification helps criminals escape
Militants and criminals are still obtaining passports on fake information with the help of some unscrupulous policemen and officials of the passport department.
21 February 2017
5 Years Since Sagar-Runi Murder: Silence drowns cries for justice
Mahir Sarowar Megh was only five when his parents were brutally killed in the bedroom of their apartment in the capital's West Rajabazar.
8 February 2017
‘I've found him at last, but dead'
In the silence of nights, Lutfar Rahman prayed and hoped to see his only son alive, hear him call “baba” since he went missing in October, 2015.
25 January 2017
Forced to help son's 'killers'
Alleged ruling party men, who shot a 10-year-old dead while trying to occupy a polling station in Keraniganj last year, forced the father to sign an agreement that says he would help the suspects get acquitted.
14 January 2017
Police blacklist 12 websites
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has written to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to block 12 websites in an attempt to counter betting involving cricket matches.
14 December 2016
From chemist to yaba maker
He left his job at a pharmaceutical company in the capital's Mirpur area one and a half months ago to set up a yaba factory himself.
24 November 2016
'Rapist' had Pitha after fleeing custody
The alleged rapist of Garo girl who escaped from police custody hid his handcuffed hand in his trousers pocket and covered it up with a cloth, making it look like a bandaged arm. He then walked away from the court premises without anybody’s notice.
15 November 2016
Fighting Terror: SWAT-like teams to work in divisions
The police headquarters have decided to launch teams like SWAT in all divisional cities to combat armed terrorists, after the
24 September 2016
Radicalised abroad
A group of radicalised Bangladeshi students at Monash University in Malaysia were primarily brainwashed by a Bangladeshi
9 September 2016
It started with Rahmani's sermons
Abdus Sabur took his first step on the road to militancy as he started listening to the sermons of detained spiritual leader of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) Mufti Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani on his mobile phone three years ago.
8 September 2016
‘Murad’ faked NID card to rent flats
The military commander of “Neo JMB” Murad rented two flats about the same time, one in Narayanganj and the other in the
3 September 2016
RAB on hunt for 10 female JMB suspects
The Rapid Action Battalion is looking for at least 10 more suspected female members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
17 August 2016
'Everyone has forgotten Tonu'
“Everyone has forgotten Tonu. People have stopped talking about her murder. The media doesn't report on it like before.”
4 August 2016
Café attack throws him into street
A little over a month ago, everything was going well for Shishir Boiragi. He had a job that paid him enough to take care of his three-member family and treatment of his son suffering from kidney disease.
3 August 2016
'Photos taken at Bashundhara flat'
The Gulshan café attackers' photos reportedly released by Islamic State were taken at a flat in the capital's Bashundhara residential area days before the July 1 attack, police said.
1 August 2016
Trace and punish the masterminds
Seeing the shocking end of his life, the family of Shazad Rouf Arko is now searching for the answer to the most obvious question -- how could it all happen?
28 July 2016
A night of horror that seemed never to end
It was around 12:10am yesterday.
26 July 2016
Mistakenly on list not once but twice
The Rab's revised list of “missing” people contained two photographs in serial no-3 against the name of Dr Arafat Hossain Tusher. The first photograph, as stated in the list, is his older photo while the second one is his current portrait.
25 July 2016
DMP wants BTRC to block 30 web pages
Dhaka Metropolitan Police has written to the BTRC to block 30 web and Facebook pages for allegedly inciting militancy or running anti-religion propaganda.
23 July 2016