Tousif Kaium

Before the February election, the BNP vowed to restore law and order and ensure public safety if voted to office.

What began as a mother’s demand for justice -- claiming her son was shot during the July uprising -- was in fact a scripted plot driven by vendetta.

Police officials last night placed a series of demands before Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed, including increasing the number of emergency hotline 999 call-takers, modernising forensic laboratories, and procuring new vehicles for the force.

Bangladesh Police are set to place a series of reform and capacity-building proposals before the prime minister during Police Week 2026, including the appointment of police liaison officers at Bangladesh missions abroad and the establishment of specialised police facilities in Jangal Salimpur, a crime-prone area near Chattogram city.

Police in Cox’s Bazar have arrested a Rohingya youth for alleged links with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a Pakistan-based militant group.

After filing a case in 2020 accusing 14 people of trafficking his son to Libya and extorting money through torture, Mannan Munshi saw it move to trial and pass through years of hearings -- only to collapse before charges were framed.

For more than a year, Shakil Ahmed from Sunamganj Sadar survived in Libya on a single meal a day -- a piece of hard, stale bread; some vegetables; and half a litre of water.

Former Jatiya Sangsad speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury had arrived at her cousin’s residence in Dhanmondi just hours before she was arrested early yesterday in an attempted murder case linked to the 2024 July uprising.

At least six people died after a fire tore through a gas lighter manufacturing factory at the Kadamtali intersection in Keraniganj yesterday.

Customers were allegedly locked inside a restaurant during the deadly blaze at Green Cozy Cottage on Bailey Road to ensure bill payments, according to findings by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has recovered around $3.622 million that was collected from people and siphoned abroad through the MTFE scam.

Nearly a decade after the Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist stunned the world, investigators say they have identified 65 to 70 suspects across seven countries and are now preparing to submit the charge sheet soon.

While rows of colourful clothes in makeshift stalls along the busy footpath beside the BMTC building remain untouched despite Eid approaching, vendors in the capital’s Karwan Bazar are grappling with low profits and the continued burden of extortion payments.

Police are preparing fresh lists of extortionists, armed criminals and other notorious offenders, with a drive expected to begin just after Eid amid growing allegations.

Police Headquarters (PHQ) is now moving to revert to the former uniform of Bangladesh Police that was replaced just three months ago following a procurement process worth around Tk 141 crore.

Uncertainty has arisen over the withdrawal of security support -- including the deployment of gunmen, and in some cases, house guards -- provided to at least 70 politicians and politically important individuals ahead of the 13th parliamentary election.

With the much-awaited national election set to take place tomorrow, looted firearms yet to be recovered and thousands of licensed weapons yet to be deposited may pose security challenges, experts and law enforcers said.

As a single constituency, Brahmanbaria-3 (Sadar) has the highest number of vulnerable polling centres in the 13th parliamentary election, with 121 centres classified as “highly risky”, according to police assessments.

Riazul Islam Rizul, president of the Purbabirgaon Union Awami League in Sunamganj, was arrested at his home on March 30 last year during Operation Devil Hunt, a joint forces drive launched to maintain law and order across the country.

Around 5:00am on January 11, a team of Rapid Action Battalion conducted a drive at a house in Raghunathpur in Benapole and recovered two firearms, six rounds of bullets and four magazines.