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A murder case without a murder: How a family’s life was turned upside down

29 May 2026, 17:23 PM
Chapainawabganj family says they spent around Tk 6 lakh fighting abduction and murder allegations
29 May 2026, 17:23 PM
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Condemned to death, entitled to 8 free cigarettes a day

28 May 2026, 20:13 PM
Colonial-era jail code provision still keeps nearly 16,000 cigarettes flowing daily to death row inmates across Bangladesh’s prisons
28 May 2026, 20:13 PM

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
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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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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

Bangladesh officials seize Rs 1.21 crore fake Indian notes

Customs officials could not believe their eyes when they were handling merely a packet of blanket.
9 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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When Hippocratic Oath rolls on street

When the elderly man was found abandoned on the street near Dhaka Medical College Hospital, a policeman got him
1 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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A dozen priests get death threat

A deep sense of insecurity has gripped Christian priests in the country.
19 November 2015, 18:00 PM
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Police will guard people under threat

Field-level officers of Dhaka Metropolitan Police have been instructed to ensure security to people who are under threat.
12 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Over 12,000 foreigners residing illegally?

A brief stint in prison, and unscrupulous foreigners can prolong their stay and run illegal businesses in Bangladesh.
8 August 2015, 18:00 PM
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Only tipping can get you trolleys

If you look wealthy or solvent enough to give a tip, there is no dearth of trolley carriers at the emergency unit of the country's premier
24 July 2015, 18:00 PM
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Letter from prison

An alleged letter from a death row Huji leader in Kashimpur jail shows that militants are changing tactics, using code languages and
3 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Police for action against 3 officers

The probe body formed following the sexual assault on women during the Pahela Baishakh celebrations has recommended taking action against three police officers for duty negligence and failing assess the “situation” during the incident.
13 May 2015, 18:00 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: Vote rigging at Kamalapur (video)

Supporters of Awami League-backed mayoral and councilor candidates stuffed ballot boxes indiscriminately driving out poling agents of BNP-backed candidates from a polling booth at Kamalapur Sher-e Bangla Railway High School Centre-1 today.
28 April 2015, 14:40 PM
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Mother, son killed as lorry hits rickshaw

Four-year-old Hamim held on to the collar of his father Mainul's shirt tight as the father was giving him to his mother sitting on a
10 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Cops struggling to cope with overstretched duty

It was a Sunday afternoon. Two on-duty policemen were sitting on a bench on the sidewalk of Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in the capital's Karwan Bazar area.
4 March 2015, 21:59 PM
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