17 senior cops may be sent into forced retirement
22 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Seventeen senior police officials are likely to be sent into forced retirement over alleged allegiance to the Awami League, family ties to the party, roles in manipulating the 2014 and 2018 elections, repression of the opposition, and corruption.
22 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Milestone tragedy: Probe blames human error, unsafe building
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Human error arising from inadequate training and supervision was the principal cause of the Milestone school plane crash, while an unsafe school building and failures in planning and emergency response worsened the consequences.
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
‘We have become living corpses’
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Almost every afternoon, Reshma Karim keeps a plateful of food on the table for her 14-year-old son, as she waits for him to return from school.
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Narcotics dept can work at borders, carry arms
19 July 2026, 00:00 AM
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) can now conduct its own raids, searches, seizures, arrests and investigations along the country’s borders and at land ports, airports and seaports under the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act, 2026.
19 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Cyber slavery: Bangladeshis forced into online scams in Cambodia
17 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Trafficking victim Tofail Ahmed said he was sold to a heavily guarded cyber scam facility in Cambodia.
17 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Sold into cyber slavery / How Bangladeshi jobseekers are trafficked into Cambodia's scam compounds
16 July 2026, 10:00 AM
Hundreds of Bangladeshis have been rescued from Cambodia's infamous scam centres in recent weeks.
16 July 2026, 10:00 AM
In search of work, caught in war
12 July 2026, 00:00 AM
30 Bangladeshis went to Russia on work visas; 4 dead, 2 missing after alleged war deployment
12 July 2026, 00:00 AM
‘If I’m alive, I’ll come back’
10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
In the remote Laur village, under Brahmanbaria’s Nabinagar upazila, Nazmin Akter has been waiting many months for a call from her husband, Kamrul Hasan, who left home for Russia in July last year in search of work but ended up in the Ukraine war.
10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Coronavirus Infection: Crowded barracks put cops at risk
Despite protective measures taken by authorities, the number of infection in the police force has been on a rapid rise with around one hundred officials across the country testing positive for Covid-19 daily over the last one week.
11 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Syndicates selling used mask, gloves
Taking advantage of growing demand for hand gloves and masks, several syndicates are reselling discarded products exposing people to the risk of contracting the novel coronavirus in the country.
6 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Shopping Malls: Big 2 won’t open, some in dilemma
Some of the capital’s largest shopping malls have decided not to reopen on May 10 when the coronavirus restrictions will be relaxed.
6 May 2020, 18:00 PM
17 ‘JMB men’ held in capital
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police claimed to have arrested 17 members of JMB from the capital’s Kakrail area, who were planning to join a so-called jihad after migrating into Saudi Arabia.
5 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Stung by Covid-19: Police struggle to enforce curbs
While the government has extended the ongoing shutdown to May 16 to ensure social distancing, many continue to crowd roads amid the growing number of Covid-19 cases in the country.
4 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Relief for dressmakers as shops set to open before Eid
Much has been written about the garment sector’s export orders hitting a brick wall for the global coronavirus pandemic.
4 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Construction workers: As informal as ignored
Though the ongoing shutdown has put informal workers in the construction sector in a tight spot as they are largely dependent on daily wages, the ministry concerned has failed to act promptly to address their hardships.
26 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Daily essentials get pricier
Soaring prices of essentials in Ramadan have become a major burden at a time when hundreds of thousands of people are struggling with reduced income due to the coronavirus restrictions.
24 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 taking a toll on cops
A total of 218 policemen tested Covid-19 positive as of yesterday while 652 others of the force are in quarantine, says the Police Headquarters (PHQ).
23 April 2020, 18:00 PM
DMP now seeking volunteers
Dhaka Metropolitan Police is set to go tougher on those who would roam around streets as the number of Covid-19 patients has been ratcheting up in the country.
18 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Docked on to uncertainty
Sadek Ali, a boatman who plies his trade on the Buriganga, took loans from his relatives to send his only son to Brunei two months ago. This, he hoped, would bring his family better days, and finally allow him to retire from after a 20-year long career.
17 April 2020, 18:00 PM
A life of crime catches up to them
They spent their childhood working as labourers in the capital’s Karwan Bazar kitchen market. Their task was to unload vegetables from trucks that arrived in droves at the market.
15 April 2020, 18:00 PM
A bleak Baishakh for restaurants
Around 30,000 restaurants across the country were eagerly waiting for this year’s Pahela Baishakh, expecting that they would get booming sales. But none of them could have imagined what would happen in the coming days.
13 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Coronavirus Fallout: Vegetable growers count huge losses
Vegetable farmers are incurring severe losses amid the countrywide shutdown that has been imposed to contain coronavirus spread.
11 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Fruits in short supply
Amid a supply shortage of imported fruits -- that reportedly meets 60 percent of the country’s demand, prices are rising in markets at the capital.
8 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Protectors still unprotected
At a time when law enforcers are enforcing social distancing among people to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the agency is failing to apply the same for its own members.
5 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Masked men on empty roads worry shopowners
Empty streets and people everywhere walking around in masks have made business owners in the capital weary, as a number of recent reports suggest that some criminals are looking at the countrywide shutdown as an opportunity.
4 April 2020, 18:00 PM
What about their security?
When thousands of homebound people on March 24 thronged Airport Railway Station in Dhaka, sepoy Saddam Hossain of Railway Nirapatta Bahini (RNB) was given the responsibility to deter people from getting on the train roof.
1 April 2020, 18:00 PM
40 prisoners quarantined, 6 isolation units at jails
The directorate of prisons has opened six division-wise isolation centers inside jails for inmates, to keep any potential coronavirus patient.
31 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Hunger, not virus, is their biggest worry
“Have you brought food for us?”
This was what 10-year-old Sohana asked these correspondents at the beginning of this conversation at Kamalapur Railway Station on Sunday noon.
30 March 2020, 18:00 PM