Emran Hossain

For Zahir Uddin Sardar, the memory burns like fire.

Taj Hossain alias Sourav Mia, who was shot by a lawmaker in Gaibandha a week ago, is getting better every day.

Two youths are overcharging traffic violators right under the nose of Traffic West Division taking advantage of Dhaka Metropolitan Police's (DMP) newly introduced fine payment system, which some say is proving troublesome instead of easing sufferings.

Undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital, Riad astonished his family when the 14-year-old said he would take medicine only if he was allowed to smoke marijuana or drink alcohol afterwards. He was finally given sedatives and put to sleep.

Police did not employ any security expert to monitor the electronic surveillance boasted in their multilayer security arrangements during this year's Amar Ekushey Boi Mela.

Mukuly Begum literally struggled to take her thirteen-month-old daughter on her lap.

“My arms and legs were tied in such a way that it was impossible for me even to change sides without help,” said Jewel, who was abducted and held captive by human traffickers in November last year.

The charge sheet in Narayanganj seven-murder case has been dubbed "flawed" by legal experts.

Rab men abducted and executed Narayanganj city councillor Nazrul Islam and six others with direct assistance from Nur Hossain and

The voyage that Jewel Barua had made to Thailand on a cargo vessel crammed with several hundred deceived jobseekers tells of a harrowing journey redolent of a time when slave trade was a profitable business across continents.

Teknaf upazila is the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh, a perfect place for boats to set sail in secrecy.

Emran Hossain and Mohammad Ali Zinnat did an extensive investigation into human trafficking from Bangladesh to Malaysia. For over three months, they carried out a thorough research, interviewed trafficking victims, brokers and rights groups, and travelled to the southeastern coastal areas before reporting on the clandestine crime that brings to mind the horror of slave trade of the past.

Promising jobs in Malaysia, transnational human traffickers held about 2.5 lakh Bangladeshis captive in Thailand...

Varying accounts on the number of CCTV cameras installed for keeping the Pahela Baishakh celebrations under watch have caused confusion over the actual police surveillance.

Prof Ajoy Roy, father of slain writer Avijit Roy, failed to elicit any positive response from police when he had lodged a complaint a year

Habibur Rahman Jewel, 45, has developed a symbiotic relationship with his birthplace. It is a small 2.5 katha plot in the capital's Gendaria where an old, tin-shed house once stood. What remains of it now are piles of dust, brick chunks and rubble all around.

Abul Khair Chowdhury is a government official now serving as an assistant director of the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA). Intriguingly, police failed to get hold of him despite summon and arrest orders in the last two years.

Adflame's Paracetamol syrup Flammadol containing toxic chemical diethylene glycol was responsible for the deaths of a number of children between 1982 and 1992.

Documents available in court indicate clearly that the DGDA deliberately destroyed the cases. Meanwhile, people present during the 1992 drugs test recalled how proper steps regarding the matter had been bypassed since the very beginning.

The tests on the drugs were above suspicion; using newly installed gas chromatography equipment, they were conducted by the government's own drug testing laboratory under direct supervision of an expert consultant from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The results of subsequent independent testing -- undertaken in laboratories in the US and obtained by The Daily Star -- confirmed the results.