Shariful Islam

Police high-ups yesterday placed before the home minister a slew of demands, including a separate division for them at the ministry and upgrade of the IGP’s  rank to that of a four-star general.

Police high-ups yesterday started discussing with their chief a list of over 100 demands, including a replacement of long-barrel firearms with short arms for on-duty policemen, and the establishment of an independent cyber unit and a cyber and IT training academy to cope with rising cybercrimes.

Despite restrictions after her arrest, Dhaka’s Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal ordered the police to unblock the passport of Humaira Zakir Nabila, chief a “sister department” of Neo-JMB and it’s financier.

Large potholes, contraflow lanes, overflowing drains and long tailbacks make the commute through the capital’s Begum Rokeya Sarani an exercise in patience.

Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has been nothing short of a travellers’ nightmare for over a week.

The Detective Branch of police recently busted a theft gang based in Cumilla, which devised a strategy, comprising of multiple layers, to accomplish their goals -- to break into offices in high-rise buildings.

Nazrul Islam joined the Department of Youth Development under the youth and sports ministry in an entry-level post in 1990. He had topped the list in the recruitment test. After 15 years of “satisfactory” performance, he was regularised in 2005.

Embezzlement of funds, corruption, revenue evasion, and mismanagement by the suspended board and management have cost Delta Life Insurance Company Ltd Tk 3,687 crore in financial losses, according to a new audit.

Embezzlement of funds, corruption, revenue evasion, and mismanagement by the suspended board and management have cost Delta Life Insurance Company Ltd Tk 3,687 crore in financial losses, according to a new audit. 

The number of road accidents involving police personnel is growing every year, with 62.9 percent of the accidents involving motorcycles.

After the incredibly brave rescue efforts to retrieve her daughter from traffickers in India -- an extraordinary story that stunned people in Bangladesh and the neighbouring country alike -- the mother from the capital’s Pallabi thought her ordeals were over.

Eight out of every 10 militants, arrested in about the last two decades, were from the northern districts and dragged into militancy by their poor socioeconomic status and religious bigotry, reveals a police study.

Highway theft is becoming a growing concern for garment exporters.

The truth always comes out, and this is what the top brass of Eorange, one of the many Evaly imitations, has found out recently.

Several thousand residents of Gazipur city have lost valuable lands as the city corporation “encroached” on their private property and demolished their buildings to widen streets, drains and footpaths.

Justice remains elusive for 21 fortune seekers, who either died or went missing after being trafficked abroad, as investigators could not collect any evidence in around one and a half years since filing of the cases.

The government is all set to increase manpower and other capacities of Fire Service and Civil Defense to modernise the service-oriented organisation in the wake of growing demand.

With each passing day, his irregularities became more unbridled and brazen.

The CID will write to the National Central Bureau of the Police Headquarters to get the Interpol to issue red notices for 10 absconding convicts of the August 21 grenade attack case.

The Police Headquarters has recently proposed new specified heights for men and women to qualify as BCS police cadres as the authority wants its officers to be taller.