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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
Requisition of Vehicles by Police for the Election

Worried your vehicle may be requisitioned? Here's what you should know

Law enforcers are requisitioning vehicles as they need a large number of transport to carry out election duties and to carry voting equipment
5 January 2024, 13:48 PM
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She held on to her child as they burned to death

As soon as other passengers on Mohanganj Express screamed “fire”, Nadira Akhter Popy grabbed her three-year-old son, held him to her chest and ran in an attempt to get out of the train carriage and escape the fire
19 December 2023, 11:19 AM
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A loud scream, followed by complete silence

The teep was still visible on Labib's head. His innocent life was lost over a trivial matter
6 December 2023, 15:33 PM
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National polls Kishoreganj-2: Ex-IGP out, ex-additional DIG in

Abdul Kahar Akand, former additional deputy inspector general of police, has been given Awami League nomination for Kishoreganj-2 constituency for the 2024 national election
26 November 2023, 13:26 PM
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Agargaon-Motijheel: Shortened travel time elates metro commuters

Tasnuva Afroz was evidently delighted while stepping off the metro train and onto the Motijheel station’s platform yesterday morning, when the Agargaon-Motijheel section of MRT Line-6 opened to the public.
5 November 2023, 18:00 PM
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'Have been waiting for this for a long time'

There was delight on the face of Tasnuva Afroz as she stepped off the metro rail train and onto the platform of Motijheel station this morning.
5 November 2023, 06:24 AM
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‘Ma, will I survive?’

This is what 19-year-old Rabiul Islam kept asking his mother Yeasmin Akter  whenever she went to see him at the HDU unit of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
2 November 2023, 18:00 PM
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'Ma, will I survive?'

This is what 19-year-old Rabiul Islam kept asking his mother Yeasmin Akter whenever she went to see him at the HDU unit of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery
2 November 2023, 14:33 PM
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Political Uncertainty: A bad situation turns worse for the poor

Babul Matbar managed to sell only half a kilogramme of apples during the hartal enforced by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday -- a significant drop from his usual daily sales of 15 to 25 kg.
31 October 2023, 18:00 PM
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Bad situation gets worse for the poor

Babul Matbar managed to sell only half a kilogramme of apples during the hartal enforced by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday -- a significant drop from his usual daily sales of 15 to 25 kg.
31 October 2023, 09:46 AM
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Driving seized bus: Police clear ASI who ran over and killed 2 people

Police cleared ASI Emadul Haque, who ran over and killed two people while driving a seized bus in Gulistan in December 2021, of any wrongdoing saying he drove the vehicle in “good faith” to ensure smooth flow of traffic.
10 October 2023, 18:00 PM
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Finding livelihood where others saw waste

Man builds life collecting and selling animal fat for last 50 years
29 June 2023, 14:37 PM
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Facebook now a market for fake notes

“We have original, glazing print and a perfect product with security thread and watermarks that are almost undetectable in bare eyes,” reads a part of an advertisement recently posted on Facebook to sell fake notes.
8 June 2023, 18:00 PM
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'No parents should lose their children this way'

Mobarak Hossain, the father of two children who died after a pest control company used pesticide at their Bashundhara residence on Friday, said at a press conference today
8 June 2023, 10:33 AM
Boy killed as rod from expressway falls on him

Boy's death from falling rod: Site manager sues expressway worker

Hasib Hasan, the Banani and Mohakhali site manager, filed the case with Dhaka Railway Police Station, accusing Md Hasan, 32
30 May 2023, 10:31 AM
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Blast at N’ganj steel Mill: It ran without valid papers, safety measures

The steel mill factory in Narayanganj, where an explosion killed four workers and injured three others on Thursday, had been melting iron for the last six months without approval from the authorities, said officials.
5 May 2023, 18:00 PM
Explosions from accumulated gas: How to keep your homes safe

Explosions from accumulated gas: How to keep your homes safe

But when there is a leak and gas accumulates inside a closed space or room, it is akin to a ticking time-bomb. And when that accumulated gas comes in contact with a spark from an electric short-circuit or when someone lights a matchstick, an explosion rips through the room.
8 March 2023, 09:57 AM
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‘How would I console my father?’

Mansur Hossain, 42, and his cousin Al Amin, 20, had gone to Siddikbazar of Gulistan to buy sanitary ware for Mansur’s new flat
7 March 2023, 18:02 PM
‘Why can’t law enforcers catch escaped militants?’

‘Why can’t law enforcers catch escaped militants?’

Wife of slain publisher Dipan asks as 2 escaped death-row militants still at large after more than 3 months
1 March 2023, 09:41 AM
Fanfare as train tickets available a day before journey

Fanfare as train tickets available a day before journey

"It is like a dream that AC tickets are available online even just a day before the departure date ... Earlier, we had to book tickets four to five days before the departure date to travel to and from Chattogram"
28 February 2023, 08:08 AM

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