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Rafiul Islam

Negligence fuels surge in gas-related fires

7 March 2026, 03:09 AM
A couple of hours before dawn, 32-year-old Pinky Akter woke up and went to the kitchen to prepare sehri. Her family members were asleep.
7 March 2026, 03:09 AM
Mohammadpur double murder investigation

The knife she brought and the murders that followed

10 December 2025, 14:21 PM
Suspect Ayesha told the family she had neither a phone nor an NID
10 December 2025, 14:21 PM
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‘We teach, but we can’t feed our children’

19 October 2025, 18:09 PM
Mohammad Ishak, who has been teaching at a madrasa in Sylhet for over 34 years, draws a monthly salary of only Tk 26,980 -- hardly enough to support his family and cover the educational expenses of his three children.
19 October 2025, 18:09 PM
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Recovery of Looted Firearms: Announcing rewards brings no fruition

4 September 2025, 21:07 PM
Despite the home ministry’s announcement of significant rewards 10 days ago, no actionable information has been provided to the police regarding the firearms looted during last year’s July uprising.
4 September 2025, 21:07 PM
bodies recovered from rivers in Bangladesh

43 bodies a month recovered from rivers this year

29 August 2025, 18:30 PM
Bodies of a woman and a child were recovered from the Buriganga River on August 23. Autopsies initially found that they had been strangled before their bodies were dumped. A murder case was filed with Sadarghat River Police Station in this regard.
29 August 2025, 18:30 PM
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Cocaine haul raises transit route concerns

26 August 2025, 18:05 PM
A Guyanese national was arrested with around 8.6kg of cocaine at Dhaka airport yesterday, and officials said the drug was not meant for local use.
26 August 2025, 18:05 PM
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‘We will sleep in the car’

12 August 2025, 21:59 PM
Two men found dead inside a car parked in the basement of a private hospital in Dhaka on Monday had earlier told the car owner that they would sleep in the vehicle.
12 August 2025, 21:59 PM
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Riyad-led group targeted another former AL MP

30 July 2025, 20:00 PM
The group led by former Students Against Discrimination leader Abdur  Razzak Riyad, arrested for allegedly extorting a former Awami League  lawmaker’s family in Gulshan, had targeted another ex-AL MP, Abdul Kalam  Azad, a month earlier, said police.
30 July 2025, 20:00 PM
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Cause of Tonu's death still unknown

It has been nearly three months since her murder, but the cause of her death is still unknown. Like the first autopsy, the second one could not determine how she died.
12 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Police launch drive against militants

In the wake of recent spate of targeted killings, including that of SP Babul Akter's wife on Sunday, the police department is
9 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Mother killed in front of six-year-old son

Six-year-old Mohammad Yusuf was holding a pair of sandals of his mother at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, hoping she would put them on soon.
24 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Diplomatic zone under stronger surveillance

Law enforcers will now be immediately alerted to any suspicious gathering or movement of individuals and any unusual incident in the capital's diplomatic zone under a new surveillance system.
23 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Parents of slain Bangladeshi student now see hope

The parents of Sohagi Jahan Tonu called for the immediate arrest of her rapists and killers yesterday, a day after the CID
17 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Justice for Tonu: All are hoping against hope

Tonu is dead! That's the only thing investigators can say for sure after more than a month since the body of the 19-year-old was found in Comilla Cantonment area.
27 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Wife buys time with jailed husband

A woman managed to briefly meet her imprisoned husband face to face, bribing her way through prison guards at Dhaka
21 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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With bribe, wife gets ‘alone time’ with jailed husband, then gets caught

A woman has managed a chance to ‘reunite’ with her imprisoned husband bribing her way through prison guards. Successful for a brief period of time, she got caught in the act.
21 April 2016, 10:02 AM
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Unusual surrender of a duty-free car

The owner of an unregistered luxury car left his vehicle in front of the Customs Intelligence office in Sylhet, apparently being unable to pay the taxes and get the vehicle registered.
20 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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Man drops luxury car at customs after failing to pay tax

Sylhet customs officials find a Lexus luxury car abandoned outside their office. The car carries a letter, apparently from the owner who chose to remain anonymous, that says the vehicle has been surrendered to the tax collectors out of respect for the law.
20 April 2016, 04:35 AM
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Her zeal for arts defined her life

Tonu had an artiste within her, which she was well aware of and so wanted dearly to flourish.
13 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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Sohag returns after 16 days

Mizanur Rahman Sohag, a friend of Sohagi Jahan Tonu's younger brother, was released by his abductors early yesterday, 16 days after he was picked up from his house in Burichang upazila of Comilla by a group of men posing as law enforcers.
12 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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Father saw head injury, inquest found none

Yaar Hossain, father of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, rejects the inquest report as it does not mention some injury marks he saw on his daughter's body after finding her murdered on the night of March 20.
11 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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CID to arrest suspects soon

Investigators are poised to make a breakthrough soon in the probe into the murder of Comilla college student
9 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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Rights boss doubts first autopsy

The National Human Rights Commission will seek prime minister's interference if the second autopsy on Sohagi Jahan Tonu turns out to be as shoddy as the first one, its chairman said.
7 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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First autopsy found no sign of rape

The first autopsy found no sign of rape on the body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu and also failed to ascertain the cause of her death.
4 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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Rogue despite stern warnings

A section of cops are getting involved in criminal offences despite repeated warnings of stern action from the police high-ups.
4 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Uttara priest gets fresh death threat

A Christian priest in the capital received a death threat for a second time yesterday, barely three days before
22 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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Alarming negligence

The sheet on Abdul Quddus' bed at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital was not white. The colour had faded. There were splodges of mucus and pus from his burnt leg. Marks of the ointment put on his leg were all over the sheet. It reeked. It was a filthy bed sheet.
21 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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Mob beating kills 8 ‘robbers’ in Narayanganj of Bangladesh

A mob, brought together by a call over loudspeakers from mosques, beat eight robbers to death when they were taking away rice sacks at Araihazar of Narayanganj early yesterday, police and locals said.
10 December 2015, 18:00 PM

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