Inside house of horror
2 August 2026
From the outside, the ageing two-storey building inside the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-1 headquarters in Uttara appears almost idyllic.
2 August 2026
Martyr of July uprising: Son they never got to bury
28 July 2026
Police shot him at point-blank on the final day of the July uprising, then made his body disappear, stripping his elderly parents of the chance to bury their only son, secure timely justice, and receive the state compensation that could have lifted them from crushing poverty.
28 July 2026
Akramul killing: Formal charges pressed against Hasina, 10 others
27 July 2026
For eight years, justice remained beyond the reach of former Teknaf municipality councillor Akramul Haque’s family.
27 July 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
8 Uprising ICT cases: Prosecution to charge several AL veterans
10 July 2026
The prosecution at the International Crimes Tribunal is set to file charges against around two dozen suspects, including several Awami League veterans, in eight cases over crimes against humanity committed during the July uprising in 2024.
10 July 2026
Police seek new names, wider roles for ATU, CTTC
4 July 2026
Bangladesh Police has proposed renaming its specialised counterterrorism agency, the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU), and expanding its mandate to cover broader internal security and national stability, prompting concerns among serving officers that the move could dilute its core counterterrorism mission.
4 July 2026
‘Not everything is a crime against humanity’
4 July 2026
From century-old clan rivalries over local dominance to rape allegations and professional disputes, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has been receiving numerous complaints that fall outside its core mandate.
4 July 2026
Inu sentenced to 10 years for crimes against humanity
1 July 2026
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday sentenced JSD President Hasanul Haq Inu to three concurrent terms of 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
1 July 2026
DMP sacks 10 cops for dope test failure
Dhaka Metropolitan Police has come down hard on its members who have failed the dope tests and were found to be involved in drug trading or collaborating with such traders.
22 November 2020
Cases Over Bus Torching: He was in hospital, still made accused
When buses were being torched in Dhaka on November 12 afternoon, Zakir Hossain Siddiqui, a vice-president of Jubo Dal, was undergoing treatment for a blood disease at LabAid Hospital.
18 November 2020
Oct 2019 Bhola Mayhem: A hacker started it all
Biplob Chandra Baidya, a youth from Bhola, has been languishing in jail for a year even though a hacker, arrested by police, confessed to have circulated anti-religious messages using his Facebook ID.
2 November 2020
Sell it cheap or face torture
When a portion of his shop in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar was demolished by the men of lawmaker Haji Salim in April 2019, Aftab Ahmed did whatever he could to save the rest of his shop in a century-old building.
28 October 2020
Nightmare in Jordan
Abandoned by her husband and struggling to feed her two children, Nazma Begum thought moving overseas for work would change her life.
11 October 2020
Each division to get school-college for cops’ children
The police authorities are planning to establish eight high-quality schools and colleges with residential facilities in eight divisional headquarters to bring an end to officers’ intense attempt to stay in Dhaka on ground of their children’s education.
28 September 2020
A fairer ladder to climb up
From now on, Police Headquarters (PHQ) will hold centrally-supervised examinations for departmental promotion of lower-tier police officers, to bring an end to discrimination that many deserving candidates have allegedly long been facing.
26 September 2020
Neo-JMB leader confesses to killing missing man
A Neo-JMB leader has confessed to a court that a sleeper cell of the militant group killed a man whose photograph is uploaded on the website of SITE Intelligence Group.
16 September 2020
Renu’s Death in Mob Beating: Police submit charge sheet against 15
The police probe has found involvement of 19 people in the killing of Taslima Begum Renu in the capital’s Badda last year.
10 September 2020
Zero Border Killings: Promise that keeps ringing hollow
For years, India has been promising to bring the killing of Bangladeshis along the Indo-Bangla border down to zero.
10 September 2020
This will encourage people to file case
Eminent jurists and rights activists yesterday welcomed the first ever verdict in a case filed under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act 2013 and said it will encourage people to come forward to file cases under this act.
9 September 2020
A brother’s quest for justice may end today
Today is likely to be the culmination of a long and strenuous battle for justice.
8 September 2020
Air Traffic Control: New radar to usher in a new era
The purchase deal of a state-of-the-art radar system, long overdue for safe aircraft navigation and control of air traffic through the country’s airspace, is expected to be finalised in a couple of months.
1 September 2020
Why did they need to make him disappear?
Every night Jahanara Khatun went to sleep in the hope that her husband would come home the next morning.
29 August 2020
Of uncertainty and struggle
Parvez Hossain gave Tk 500 to his wife Farzeena Akhter before leaving home seven years ago. That was all she was left with.
29 August 2020
Crime spikes in capital as normalcy returns post Covid-19 closure
The capital, that saw a sharp decline in crime incidents during two-month lockdown has once again started to see a spike in crimes.
18 August 2020
Aug 17 Series Bomb Blasts: JMB weak but still a threat
Militant outfit JMB that struck terror across the country in 2005 has almost no strength to carry out any organised attack, but it is still a threat, counterterrorism officials believe.
16 August 2020
Police move to centralise their drug purchase
Medicine procurement for police personnel and their family members under different units outside Dhaka is being centralised to stop irregularities in the process.
13 August 2020
One year of Taslima’s murder: Probe drags on despite footage of crime
A year has gone by but little Tasmin Mahira Tuba’s search for her mother is still far from over.
19 July 2020
Of an alley, 33 flats, 2 brothers
In the densely populated Old Dhaka, Lane-1 of Lalmohon Saha Street has recently earned its own reputation, as the arrested “casino brothers” Enamul Haque Enu and Rupon Bhuiyan have 33 flats in that otherwise inconspicuous alley.
25 February 2020