709 cops punished in 5yrs: IGP

Punitive measures are taken against 709 policemen on different charges during the last five years, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque says today.
24 January 2016

Section 144 in Nandail

The district administration imposed Section 144 in Merenga Bazar area under Mosulli union of Nandail upazila yesterday afternoon due to
23 January 2016

Three more held over B'baria violence

Three more people, including a Jubo Dal leader, were arrested on Friday night in connection with the January 12 violence over the death of
23 January 2016

2 held with 3,000 Yaba pills in Ctg

Police arrested two youths with 3,000 Yaba tablets in Chittagong city's Jahurul Haque Base area on Friday night.
23 January 2016

Cops rescue teenage girl from forced prostitution

Police rescued a teen-age girl, forced into sex trade after the criminals lured her with promise of a job, from a house
23 January 2016

Stop building courthouse on Barisal 'church land'

Minority community leaders yesterday demanded that the government back off from building a courthouse on the "grabbed" land of a
23 January 2016

20 Magura drug dealers promise to give up illegal trade

Responding to the call of the superintendent of police, AKM Ehsan Ullah, 20 drug dealers of Magura town went to his
22 January 2016

'Robber' found murdered in Mymensingh

An alleged member of a robbery gang was found dead with his throat slit beside a canal in Chhoto Boroihati village of
22 January 2016

3 Sirajganj cops closed over arrestee's escape

Constables Ganesh Dash, Enamul Haque and Rabiul Islam of Shahjadpur Police Station were closed to the district police lines on Thursday
22 January 2016

Five more held over B'baria violence

Police arrested five people on Thursday in connection with violence over death of a madrasa student in a clash of
22 January 2016

ASI closed over torturing Ctg man

A policeman was closed on Thursday for torturing one Md Solaiman and realising money from him in Chittagong city's Beribandh area on
22 January 2016

CJ's remark rattles govt's foundation

Senior BNP leader Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman yesterday lauded the recent remark of Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on signing
22 January 2016

Thakurgaon Jamaat leader held

Shoriful Islam, Baliadangi upazila unit general secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami in Thakurgaon, was arrested on Thursday
22 January 2016

Stalker jailed

A mobile court sentenced an easy-bike (three-wheeler) driver to one-year's imprisonment for teasing a university girl in Palbari area of
21 January 2016

Child marriage bid, one fined

A mobile court fined a marriage registrar in Sadar upazila of the district on Wednesday on charge of arranging marriage of an underage
21 January 2016

16 sued for killing Workers Party leader

Sixteen operatives of outlawed Sarbahara Party were sued yesterday on charge of killing a Bangladesh Workers Party leader in Atghoria
21 January 2016

Court seeks probe report on five Patuakhali war crime suspects

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday directed the prosecution to submit investigation reports, if any, on
21 January 2016

Court orders probe into Goyeshwar's remark about Liberation War martyrs

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered a probe into defamation allegations against BNP senior leader Goyeshwar Chandra
21 January 2016

11 'militants' indicted for Ashulia bank heist killings

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 11 militant suspects over the killing of eight people during a bank heist in Ashulia last year.
21 January 2016

Court orders judicial probe against 5 cops

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered a judicial probe against five policemen a day after a woman filed a complaint accusing
21 January 2016