By June of 1971, Pakistani forces had occupied most of Rajshahi district’s key installations and were expanding their control to remote areas through mass killings, rape and burning villages.

The tin shack was almost hidden behind a bush. A thick canopy of mango and coconut trees kept it under a blissful shade. Behind its backyard was a wide canal that separated it from the rest of the village.

An alleged drug dealer has been killed in “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Hajaribagh area of Dhaka.

Sahera Khatun Shimul, a young working woman, has to travel from Dhanmondi to Khilgaon regularly to attend her office.

Room 2011. It is the second last room located on the first floor of the five-storey Sher-e-Bangla Hall at Buet. Although innocuous-looking from the outside, the room is known among the students to be a torture cell and a party hub.

The recent surge in teen gang violence has become a major concern for the citizens. The murder of 17-year-old Mohsin Ali in the capital’s Mohammadpur area on September 4, 2019 had haunting echoes of the gruesome killing of Adnan Kabir (14) in 2017—which

The Internet may, at first, seem like a safe haven as it makes it easier for all of us to share the most personal information.

A 21-year-old woman grew up with an ambition of pursuing a career in law, but today, her future seems bleak. It all started two years ago, when she entered into a relationship with a 28-year-old man.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrests another youth in connection with the murder of Feni madrasa girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have arrested three members of a drug dealing syndicate with eight lakh pieces of yaba in Dhaka.

Two people are killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in Aftabnagar area of Dhaka.

A woman has been stabbed to death in Kishoreganj’s Karimganj upazila.

Customs officials with the help of National Security Intelligence (NSI) recovered 12.3 kg gold from the lavatory of an aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained a person for allegedly spreading propaganda against the state and the law enforcers on social media platforms.

An 18-year-old girl, who came to Dhaka from Bhola a few days ago in search of work, was allegedly raped in the city's Rupnagar area on Sunday.

A Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) member was arrested from Sadarghat area in the capital with 480 pieces of yaba pills on Sunday night.

A Chattogram court yesterday handed down death penalty to two brothers, on charges of killing an expatriate in Fatickchhari upazila in the district over a land dispute in 2011.

Rab claims to have arrested two persons with International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number altered stolen mobile phones and IMEI changing devices in Gulistan area of Dhaka.

Bangladesh Army yesterday caught three people with a machine gun and a sub-machine carbine in Bilaichhari area of Rangamati Sadar

The year 1971, a year that is firmly entrenched in everyone's mind as being a momentous time in history. Those were tumultuous times, insecure times, distressing, perturbing, worrying times.