Rafiul Islam

Police yesterday arrested six people for “spreading rumours” and claimed to have kept over 100 social media accounts under surveillance for their involvement in spreading misleading information and rumours regarding the coronavirus outbreak.

Three people were killed in a fire originated from a mosquito coil at a house at Bauniabad in Mirpur.

As Roksana Akter started having labour pains, she was immediately taken to a private hospital in Lakshmipur’s Chandraganj area on Friday morning.

Amid widespread outrage over police excess in enforcing restrictions on people’s movement, the authorities yesterday issued several directives asking police and other officials to act professionally.

Hearing about the whole incident on the district hotline, Dr Gaffar donned his gloves after years and he, along with another colleague -- anaesthetist Dr Iqbal Mahmud -- rushed there, around 15km away from district town, to conduct the operation.

People inside Uttar Tolarbagh residential area -- which houses 40 buildings -- continue to socialise with each other, even though the area is under lockdown following deaths of two coronavirus-infected patients there recently.

Although a week has passed since journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol went missing, his family could not file a case in this regard as two police stations in the capital are passing the buck on each other.

A week has passed since journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol went missing, but his family could not yet file a case. Two police stations have been giving Kajol’s family a runaround over the issue.

“‘You will be put in a crossfire. Your time is up. Recite the kalima.’ I thought they were taking me somewhere to kill me. I broke down in tears.”

Three weeks have passed since the murders of Munni Rahman and her two children in Dhaka’s Dakshin Khan. The prime suspect, Munni’s husband Raquib Uddin Bhuiyan, still remains traceless.

Exactly one year after the tragic blaze at Wahed Mansion in Chawk Bazar, police have neither arrested a single accused, nor made any headway in investigation.

It has been four years since a band of hackers broke into this Bangladesh Bank’s account with the New York Fed with the intent to pull off what would have been the biggest cyber heist in history.

Abdullah, a nine-month-old, had just learnt to crawl before his life met a tragic end that could have been avoided.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is going to launch a state-of-the-art forensic laboratory in Rajshahi for examining evidences, detecting crimes and identifying criminals in Rajshahi and Rangpur regions.

The Criminal Investigation Department is going to launch a sophisticated forensic laboratory in Rajshahi for crimes committed in Rajshahi and Rangpur regions.

So, someone can be deliberately killed in “crossfire”! The “crossfire” killings, understood to be a blatant violation of all human rights laws, have been termed by an MP an “instant action” when it comes to dealing with criminals.

The number of rape victims in Bangladesh has doubled in 2019 than that of the previous year, said Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday.

All Abu Zafor Sikder wanted was justice for his son killed in a 2014 “shootout”. The 60-year-old owner of a small pharmacy in the capital’s Dania fought a strenuous legal battle for nearly five long years.

“We are trapped by the flames. We can’t go downstairs. Please help!” These were the words of Uttam Kumar Das as he called his cousin Ranajit after the fire broke out at an electric fan factory in Gazipur Sunday afternoon.

It did not look like a factory or a workplace; rather, it looked like a large compound for confinement. The fire-ravaged plastic factory in Keraniganj, with around 15,000 sqft floor space, had a single gate for entry and exit and no emergency exits whatsoever. It had six large rooms inside, but everyone there had to use that one gate to get out.