Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary

Used syringes, bandages, plastic bottles and leftovers litter the pitch-black water of an open stinky drain surrounding a building. If you have a closer look, you may also discover human faeces floating at a place or two.

A war crimes tribunal yesterday sentenced two people from Kishoreganj to death for crimes they had committed during the 1971 Liberation War.

Moulavi Zakaria Sikdar has been on the run since a war crimes tribunal issued an arrest warrant against him around two years ago.

Canadian explorer Niko Resources has left behind a hard-to-miss corruption trail, showing how it won an unsolicited energy deal and dodged responsibility for the subsequent blowouts, by bribing influential people linked with the last BNP-led government. The company, having been floated only in 1987, was so desperate that it did not even hesitate to appoint a consultancy firm, owned by a Bangladeshi-born American, for $4 million to handle the dirty work in Bangladesh, according to evidence obtained by The Daily Star.

A Dhaka court has ordered reinvestigation into a case filed in connection with 2010 Molotov cocktail attack on then chief justice ABM Khairul Haque's residence.

Fourteen-month-old Afrin was lying on a bed at the neurosurgery ward of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. With a worried face, her mother Jesmin Begum kept staring at her. Sitting on an adjacent bed, Afrin's father Rintu Qazi looked hapless.

With four people killed in a “shootout” with law enforcers in Meherpur yesterday, the number of victims of such extrajudicial killing reached 51 in the first two and half months of this year, amid growing concerns of rights organisations.

The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunal has asked all police commissioners and superintendents of police to

Amit Chakma was only three when the construction of Kaptai dam ended in 1962. The dam, meant to generate hydroelectric power,

Police will submit reports every 15 days to the International Crimes Tribunal about the war crimes fugitives with reasons behind their

As February 28 nears every year, Dorothi sets out to do something she has been doing for almost a decade.

He is in jail and he is a fugitive -- all at the same time. Strange, right? But the man we are talking about is no illusionist. He is Kamol Khan, a prisoner as per the Dhaka Central Jail records and a fugitive in case documents.

A Manikganj court yesterday sentenced a bus driver to life imprisonment in a case filed over the road accident that killed noted filmmaker Tareque Masud, media personality Ashfaque Munier Mishuk and three others in 2011.

Faruk Hossain landed in jail 12 years ago as an accused in a murder case. Aged only 13 at the time of his arrest, he was produced

The country yesterday got its first female election commissioner in Begum Kabita Khanam, a former district and sessions judge.

When Tofazzel Hossain wrote to Meherpur deputy commissioner a couple of weeks ago asking the civil servant to either bear the

The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunal has launched an investigation against top BNP leader and former education minister Muhammad Osman Farruk into his alleged involvement in crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.

Fugitive war crimes accused Wazuddin of Mymensingh's Phulbaria died of “old age complications” on May 7 last year and the district police boss was informed about it in August to dispatch the news to the International Crimes Tribunal.

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal has written to the home ministry to take departmental action against two Satkhira police officials allegedly for trying to keep a witness from testifying in a war crimes case.

One person was killed a day in “shootouts” involving law enforcement agencies on an average last month, according to Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK).