Rafiul Islam

The prisons and the police authorities apparently traded blame over how two death row convicts in the Holey Artisan attack case managed to wear prayers caps emblazoned with IS logo.

Unable to hear the judge clearly, accused Mizanur Rahman, 63, thought he had been given the death penalty. From the dock, he let out “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is the greatest) and called for the destruction of all “infidels”.

Badiuzzaman became landless nearly 15 years ago, when all his 20 bighas of arable land in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila eroded into mighty Jamuna.

Walking on Dhaka streets is no easy task.

The government has finally decided to deport around 11,000 foreigners staying illegally in Bangladesh without valid documents.

As the new Road Transport Act imposes tougher penalties on traffic rule violators, a huge number of people are thronging the Mirpur office of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) every day to have the documents of their vehicles renewed and keep those up to date.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday asked all banks to freeze the accounts of Aziz Mohammad Bhai for 30 days.

The gruesome murder of Buet student Abrar Fahad has touched off widespread outrage with students of different public universities taking to the streets demanding punishment to the killers.

With a meagre income from his small grocery store in Bogura, Rafiqul Islam was the sole breadwinner of his family of five.

His passport records say he went to India on July 3 last year through the Benapole Land Port and flew back home on July 19.

The Police Headquarters recently instructed its members not to talk to the media about any cases under investigation and special or sensitive drives to avoid controversy.

If you go by the documents of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj, over 68 percent work to build a concrete Shaheed Minar on the campus has been completed.

They cut the lower parts of the gas cylinders in round shape, concealed five kilograms of cannabis inside each of it, shut those with screws, and finally painted the cylinders to make those appear untouched, in a bid to dodge the eyes of law enforcers.

The extortion case against prominent road safety campaigner Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury has three witnesses, one of whom is now saying he was made a witness without his knowledge. But more intriguingly, their statements included in the charge sheet are exactly the same -- every line, every word and even every punctuation of them.

Once he learnt that a fire had broken out in the building and it was spreading fast, Shariful Islam on the ninth floor of FR Tower told his colleagues to run to safety. But they could not as black smoke already had engulfed the staircases.

Protests erupted in Dhaka University yesterday immediately after most of the prominent panels boycotted the Ducsu election citing mass irregularities.

It was around 10:45am, nearly three hours into the beginning of yesterday's Dhaka North City Corporation by-polls.

But one thing is sure, chemicals and flammable objects had fed the flames that almost gutted Haji Wahed Mansion and partly damaged three other adjoining buildings on Wednesday night, causing the fire to last longer, said exerts and members of a probe committee.

The BNP yesterday said it would not take part in any elections, including the upcoming upazila and city corporation polls, under the incumbent government.

Tara Mia finds it difficult to even move his right arm deformed since birth. A bit tall and scrawny, the man from Sunamganj's Jamalganj upazila uses his left hand to have meals.