Bombs or gravel? Defence challenges ICT Chief Prosecutor Tajul’s earlier claim
Dispute over alleged time bombs surfaces during charge hearing in enforced disappearance case
14 December 2025, 15:37 PM
14 December 2025, 15:37 PM
‘Amar shonar Bangla’: Palak sings from prison van as cameras roll
National anthem stunt at International Crimes Tribunal premises goes viral
8 December 2025, 14:44 PM
8 December 2025, 14:44 PM
Hasina sentenced to death
ICT also hands down capital punishment to ex-home boss Asaduzzaman; ex-IGP Mamun, who turned a state witness, given 5yrs
17 November 2025, 18:14 PM
17 November 2025, 18:14 PM
Crimes against humanity: Trial proceedings of four cases likely to be wrapped up in Dec
Trial proceedings in four crimes against humanity cases, excluding the one against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her two aides which is set for verdict on November 17, are expected to be completed by December.
15 November 2025, 18:10 PM
15 November 2025, 18:10 PM
Bullet took his voice, future
Once a cheerful boy, whose father dreamed he would become a pilot one day, Basit Khan Musa now sits silent in a wheelchair, a feeding tube in his nose and paralysis gripping the right side of his body.
27 October 2025, 18:46 PM
27 October 2025, 18:46 PM
Once power brokers, now defendants
Smiles, whispers, and uneasy silence as 16 former ministers and high officials brought to ICT-1
15 October 2025, 10:09 AM
15 October 2025, 10:09 AM
25 former, serving military officers charged at ICT
The prosecution yesterday formally charged 28 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 23 top and mid-ranking current and former army officers, at International Crimes Tribunal-1 in two cases of enforced disappearances, secret detention, and torture in the 15 years of her rule.
8 October 2025, 18:23 PM
8 October 2025, 18:23 PM
ICT act amendment: Accused barred from election if formally charged
Those accused in cases filed with the International Crimes Tribunal will not be able to hold or run for public office once formal charges are pressed against them.
7 October 2025, 18:11 PM
7 October 2025, 18:11 PM
Mystery still shrouds Fardin’s death
Failing to get any evidence of murder during the month-long investigation, Detective Brach of police is now also looking into whether Buet student Fardin Noor Parash was killed in an accident, or whether he committed suicide.
3 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Operation of Jama’atul Ansar: Officials trace transaction of over Tk 1.5cr
A new militant outfit has received funds from donors in the country and at least six Bangladeshi expatriates, said Rab and counterterrorism officers.
10 November 2022, 02:20 AM
Jahangir ‘spent on’ events that never happened
Suspended Gazipur City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Jahangir Alam may have pocketed at least Tk 1.57 crore from the city corporation fund in the pretext of celebrating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary in 2020, according to an internal investigation by the city authorities.
5 November 2022, 02:00 AM
73pc crimes went unreported in 2018
Seventy-three percent victims of various crimes committed in 2018 never reported those to cops, reveals a survey commissioned by Bangladesh Police.
18 October 2022, 02:30 AM
Errant cops: Leniency lends them impunity
Complaints about police’s involvement in various crimes continue to pile up thanks to lenient disciplinary measures that embolden errant cops, say criminologists and legal experts.
4 October 2022, 02:00 AM
Gazipur road widening: Compensation unpaid, yet work resumes
The Gazipur City Corporation has resumed widening streets and construction of drains and footpaths without compensating those who lost land for the development work.
14 September 2022, 02:40 AM
Dhaka underworld: Top criminals hold the reins from abroad
Several Bangladeshi mob bosses holed up abroad have been pulling the strings behind criminal activities here with the authorities unable to bring them back for trial.
11 September 2022, 02:00 AM
Tk 2,000cr laundering case: Key suspects cleared of wrongdoing
As members of a powerful syndicate, they allegedly manipulated tenders left and right and took cuts from numerous contracts across government offices in Faridpur.
10 September 2022, 02:00 AM
‘Raped, blackmailed and cheated’ in Mauritius
Desperate to lift her family out of poverty, Roksana (real name withheld) flew to Mauritius three years ago to work as a sewing machine operator.
2 September 2022, 02:00 AM
Many militants still at large
Sanwar Hossain joined Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in 2000, influenced by none other than the banned outfit’s then supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman.
16 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Dept of Youth Dev: Investigation finds promotions were illegal
When the Department of Youth Development (DYD) last year prepared a list of 1,175 officers to be promoted to a higher position, Rafiqul Islam Sheikh’s position was 497.
12 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Death lurks at unsafe level crossings
Accidents at unprotected level crossings continue to claim lives as decisions taken at an inter-ministerial meeting around one and a half years back to curb such fatalities remained largely unimplemented.
29 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Mirpur-10 mired in gridlocks
Mirpur-10 roundabout has become a nightmare for commuters, as parked vehicles, hawkers and garbage have made gridlocks a constant presence there.
23 July 2022, 03:00 AM
Homegoers get stuck in tailbacks
People going to their hometowns from Dhaka to spend Eid suffered immensely due to shortage of buses, long tailbacks on the highways and delayed trains.
8 July 2022, 18:00 PM
CTTC to start deradicalising militants in jail this month
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit is going to start a long-overdue process of deradicalising militants inside prisons from this month.
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
6 years of Holey Artisan café attack: Neo JMB on the wane, some groups active online
Militant group Neo-JMB, which carried out a deadly attack at a Gulshan restaurant in 2016, currently has no strength to carry out another attack, but officers and security analysts see several other groups as threats.
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Gold Smuggling Cases: Utter negligence at initial stage
Most gold smuggling cases see no headway due to insufficient evidence, as investigating police officers fail to glean vital information from the arrestees during interrogation and subsequent investigation.
18 June 2022, 04:30 AM
Gold import: Advance tax withdrawn
Withdrawal of the existing 5 percent advance tax on gold import has been proposed in the budget for fiscal 2022-23 to encourage import of the precious metal through formal channel and discourage its smuggling.
9 June 2022, 18:00 PM
5% advance tax on gold import goes
The government is set to withdraw a 5 per cent advance tax on the import of gold in the fiscal year of 2022-23 to encourage the import of the precious metal through formal channels and discourage smuggling.
9 June 2022, 11:12 AM
Killings of AL leader, student: Key accused to be brought back from Oman today
A police team is scheduled to reach Dhaka from Oman in the morning today with Sumon Shikder Musa, a key suspect of the murders of a city Awami League leader and a college student in late March.
8 June 2022, 18:00 PM