FM Mizanur Rahaman

Some ruling party leaders and activists in Chattogram-4 (Sitakunda) constituency are allegedly not campaigning wholeheartedly due to internal feud between incumbent lawmaker Didarul Alam and upazila Chairman SM Al Mamun.

With an aim to expedite the fight against militancy and terror-related activities, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has established a fully-fledged Counter Terrorism (CT) unit, which is set to be inaugurated today.

Within the month of October, three branches of City Bank in Chattogram saw failed heist attempts. There were marks of attempted forced entry at the vaults of the banks, but no sign of the perpetrator, raising alarm among law enforcers and causing panic among bank authorities.

A sub-inspector of Bayezid Police Station allegedly raped a housewife threatening to implicate her husband in a yaba case.

Nine-year-old Nudrat Akter was playing in front of their house in the afternoon of February 3. When afternoon rolled into evening, she was still not home. After hours of searching, the family filed a general diary (GD) with police.

A faction of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh had plotted to carry out subversive activities at the court building of Chattogram, Rab claimed after busting a “militant den” in the district's Mirsarai yesterday.

Despite warning and punitive actions, a section of unscrupulous police personnel have been involved in yaba peddling, raising concerns among the high-ups of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP).

A mother had allegedly turned her son into a yaba peddler so that he could join the “family trade” along with her and her sister.

Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) has formed a cyber crime monitoring cell with an aim to identify virtual troublemakers who spread rumours through instigative posts and videos on different social media platforms to create anarchy, and bring them to book.

As Eid-ul-Azha is knocking on the door, operatives of “molom party” (gang of muggers who put ointment or other substances on victims' eyes causing temporary loss of vision) are becoming active across Chittagong city and surrounding areas, according to police.

Since Friday, many port city residents have been suffering from an acute gas shortage as Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited (KGDL) has started its pipeline maintenance work.

A sergeant and a constable of Gazipur traffic police were withdrawn yesterday, after they beat up a bank official in Tongi upazila in the district.

There was no witness to the grisly murder of Ateef Sheikh, an Indian medical student who was found murdered at his apartment on July 15 last year in Chittagong city's Akbar Shah area.

Samar Krishna Chowdhury, who has been implicated in two “false” cases, has said two sub-inspectors with consent from the OC of Boalkhali Police Station, tried to kill him in "shootout".

In a new twist in the “feud” between Chittagong-based coaching centre businessman Rashed Mia and former Chhatra League leader Nurul Azim Rony, Rashed has “admitted” that Rony was his business partner.

It has been more than 60 days since the body of ninth-grader Tasfia Amin was recovered from the concrete blocks on the bank of Karnaphuli River on May 2, but investigators are yet to make any breakthrough over the mysterious death.

Two years after the murder of former SP Babul Akter's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, police are going to wrap up the investigation and file the charge sheet.

The family members of Teknaf municipal Ward Councillor Akramul Haque, who was killed in a “gunfight” with RAB-7 on May 27 in the ongoing anti-narcotics drive, have demanded a judicial investigation into the killing.

Family members of Habibur Rahman, who was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) at Chittagong's Barisal Colony on May 17 amid the ongoing countrywide anti-narcotics drive, claimed that he was “innocent”.

In the port city, there are over 300 spots where peddlers have been selling drugs, including yaba, for years dodging the law enforcers, according to Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) officials.