Mahmuda Habiba, another lawmaker from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party for a reserved women's seat in the 13th National Parliament, strongly protested Milon's remarks

We are alarmed by the allegations of extortion and intimidation emerging from Kalyanpur Porabosti, highlighting a culture of criminal control over the capital’s vulnerable communities.

Several groups, some claiming links to the ruling party, have allegedly been involved in grabbing shops and slum houses, as well as extortion and intimidation, in the Kalyanpur Porabosti slum area of Dhaka.

Law enforcers to act strictly; Army, Rab to join police for cattle market security

If dominance is present, the border between “agreement” and “compliance” becomes difficult to distinguish

Business leaders and government officials at an event yesterday stressed the urgent need to improve the law-and-order situation and strengthen market management, warning that business confidence and sustainable economic growth will remain elusive unless immediate and effective measures are taken.

What if the minister did not seek to legalise or sanitise extortion, but unintentionally described an informal system of governance that already operates alongside the formal state?

Residents and businesspeople blocked a nearby road and laid siege to the police station

The Detective Branch of police has arrested an expelled leader of Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad in an extortion case involving the family of former Awami League MP Shammi Ahmed in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

The scourge of chandabaji has been eating away at business profits and also depleting the take-home wages of workers.

In the video footage, Ashraful is seen holding a receipt book and demanding money from the car owner

A contractor was shot dead by assailants in the Rail Bazar area of Jashore town last night for allegedly refusing to pay extortion money.

“Steps taken by the government so far failed to bring down prices of essential commodities,” said CPD Executive Director Fahmida Khatun

Crimes such as murder, extortion and robbery continue to plague various parts of the country despite efforts by law enforcement agencies.

In November last year, a contractor secured the work to demolish a building in Dhaka’s Moghbazar for Tk 16.5 lakh. Shortly afterwards, members of a local gang arrived at the site and demanded Tk 3 lakh to allow the work to proceed.

Sub-Inspector Anup Biswas was hospitalised for nearly two weeks after being hit in the head by a chunk of brick during the quota reforms protests in the capital’s Rampura on July 18.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali has said the police are making a list of extortionists and will soon launch drives to arrest them.

Extortion is continuing after the recent political changeover in the country. The void left behind by the previous extortionists has been filled by new ones.

On the footpath next to the General Post Office in the capital, Sohel Howlader sells children’s clothes from a small table.

A trader died after a local gang attacked him for not paying the money they demanded as extortion in Dhaka's Mirpur area last night, his family said