Weight chart for prison staffers
Launched for the first time, the initiative aims to foster a more disciplined, smart, and health-conscious prison force through exercise and dietary regulation, prisons officials said.
5 July 2025, 22:04 PM
Police suspect foul play, await autopsy results
Police suspect foul play in the deaths of a couple and their son, whose bodies were found at a hotel in Dhaka's Moghbazar on Sunday.
30 June 2025, 22:02 PM
City chokes as protests wreak havoc
Ninety-six-year-old Nurjahan Begum left her home in Old Dhaka’s Mogholtuli for her daughter’s house in Banasree around 2:00pm yesterday.
22 May 2025, 18:09 PM
From ‘TikTokers’ to murderers
What began as a seemingly harmless obsession with TikTok turned into a chilling tale of murder in Dhaka's Hazaribagh, where a photographer was killed on May 16.
21 May 2025, 18:08 PM
Five-year-old girl strangled to death in city
On Monday afternoon, five-year-old Roza Moni got hungry while playing in front of her house in Tejgaon’s Tejkunipara. She went to her mother and asked for lunch, but the meal was not ready yet.
13 May 2025, 18:04 PM
Anti-rape protest: 12 sued for attacking cops
Two of the accused in a case over attacking police during anti-rape protests in Dhaka on Tuesday have said they were not present at the scene during the clash.
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
On tour in Dinajpur, accused over clash in Dhaka
Two Chhatra Federation leaders accused over anti-rape protest clash claim they were not even present there
12 March 2025, 14:00 PM
Livelihoods, dreams reduced to ashes
Fire guts 35 shanties in Dhaka’s Bhasantek slum
6 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Attack on adivasis: Most attackers at large despite video proof
Despite clear footage from last week showing a large group of people hitting indigenous students with cricket stumps, inflicting serious injuries, law enforcers have so far arrested only two men.
21 January 2025, 19:26 PM
City dwellers on edge as mugging runs rampant
A young man slips between vehicles stuck in traffic at night and snatches a phone through an open car window with astonishing swiftness at the capital’s Asad Gate.
21 December 2024, 18:33 PM
A dream trip ends in tragedy
Kamrul Hasan, 23, stepped off a bus on the Mayor Hanif Flyover on Wednesday night, eager for a long-awaited trip to Cox’s Bazar with friends.
19 December 2024, 18:00 PM
DMP chief vows action against extortion using cases
A section of complainants in cases filed after the August 5 political changeover are now extorting money from some of the accused, DMP Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali said yesterday.
8 December 2024, 18:20 PM
Neutral, corruption-free police force
People want a law-abiding, neutral, and corruption-free police force that will operate without any political influence, as per an online survey conducted by police reform commission.
4 December 2024, 00:37 AM
Crowd control: Police seek to stop use of lethal weapon
The police may stop using lethal weapons and lead pellets for crowd control as their widespread use during the July mass uprising led to massive casualties and global criticism.
23 November 2024, 18:00 PM
A joyous stroll with mother turns tragic
5-year-old dies as wall collapses on him in Rampura
14 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Lawyers worried over attacks on court premises
Lawyer Morshed Hossain Shahin was speaking to reporters outside the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Dhaka after defending former independent lawmaker Syed Sayedul Haque Sumon on October 22. Suddenly, a pro-BNP lawyer approached and hit Morshed on the head.
1 November 2024, 18:09 PM
Politics at DU: Old guard to give way to young blood
The rules of Dhaka University stipulate that a student remains a regular one for eight years -- six years for graduation and two for post-graduation degrees.
26 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Attempted murder case: Complainant doesn't know ZI Khan Panna
Eminent lawyer ZI Khan Panna, who backed the student protesters during the mass uprising, has been made an accused in a case over the attempted murder of a demonstrator in the capital.
20 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Was with the student movement till the end: ZI Khan Panna
Noted SC lawyer was recently sued in case filed over shooting youth during the movement
20 October 2024, 11:21 AM
Racing buses end the tale of two sisters
Like any other day, Tasnim Jahan Irene and her sister Nusrat Jahan Zerin were heading to their office – Next Venture – in the capital’s Uttar Badda in an auto-rickshaw from Mirpur.
9 October 2024, 18:00 PM