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
Theft gang brought to justice
The Detective Branch of police recently busted a theft gang based in Cumilla, which devised a strategy, comprising of multiple layers, to accomplish their goals -- to break into offices in high-rise buildings.
12 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Sports Ministry Promotions: Political govt, thus political consideration
Nazrul Islam joined the Department of Youth Development under the youth and sports ministry in an entry-level post in 1990. He had topped the list in the recruitment test. After 15 years of “satisfactory” performance, he was regularised in 2005.
9 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Irregularities cost Delta Life Ins Tk 3,687cr
Embezzlement of funds, corruption, revenue evasion, and mismanagement by the suspended board and management have cost Delta Life Insurance Company Ltd Tk 3,687 crore in financial losses, according to a new audit.
4 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Irregularities cost Delta Life Insurance Tk 3,687cr
Embezzlement of funds, corruption, revenue evasion, and mismanagement by the suspended board and management have cost Delta Life Insurance Company Ltd Tk 3,687 crore in financial losses, according to a new audit.
4 December 2021, 14:37 PM
Road Accidents: 169 cops killed in last 3 years
The number of road accidents involving police personnel is growing every year, with 62.9 percent of the accidents involving motorcycles.
29 November 2021, 18:00 PM
No happy ending: She trafficked herself to rescue her daughter
After the incredibly brave rescue efforts to retrieve her daughter from traffickers in India -- an extraordinary story that stunned people in Bangladesh and the neighbouring country alike -- the mother from the capital’s Pallabi thought her ordeals were over.
5 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Militancy in Two Decades: Poverty, blind faith at play
Eight out of every 10 militants, arrested in about the last two decades, were from the northern districts and dragged into militancy by their poor socioeconomic status and religious bigotry, reveals a police study.
3 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Theft of garment items rising on Dhaka-Ctg highway
Highway theft is becoming a growing concern for garment exporters.
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
TK 1,100cr Eorange Scam: Blame-shifting fails
The truth always comes out, and this is what the top brass of Eorange, one of the many Evaly imitations, has found out recently.
3 October 2021, 18:00 PM
All in the name of development: Without compensating, Gazipur city corporation grabs pvt properties
Several thousand residents of Gazipur city have lost valuable lands as the city corporation “encroached” on their private property and demolished their buildings to widen streets, drains and footpaths.
22 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Human Trafficking: Families’ wait for justice gets longer
Justice remains elusive for 21 fortune seekers, who either died or went missing after being trafficked abroad, as investigators could not collect any evidence in around one and a half years since filing of the cases.
4 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Fire service to get major overhaul
The government is all set to increase manpower and other capacities of Fire Service and Civil Defense to modernise the service-oriented organisation in the wake of growing demand.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
A principal mired in corruption
With each passing day, his irregularities became more unbridled and brazen.
24 August 2021, 18:00 PM
10 Absconding Convicts in Aug 21 Case : CID moves to seek Interpol red notice
The CID will write to the National Central Bureau of the Police Headquarters to get the Interpol to issue red notices for 10 absconding convicts of the August 21 grenade attack case.
19 August 2021, 18:00 PM
PHQ wants taller cadre officers
The Police Headquarters has recently proposed new specified heights for men and women to qualify as BCS police cadres as the authority wants its officers to be taller.
17 August 2021, 18:00 PM
PHQ revamps recruitment process
With a view to making the recruitment of constables transparent and free of corruption, the Police Headquarters has overhauled the recruitment procedure ahead of hiring 5,000 individuals in the posts in 64 districts.
16 August 2021, 18:00 PM
JMB’s Know-how on Explosives: Despite crackdowns, no dearth of experts
Crackdowns on militant hideouts broke down JMB’s networks time and again since its emergence in Bangladesh, but the drives could hardly stop the banned outfit’s endeavour to carry through explosive know-how.
11 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Salary, Eid Bonus of 38 SPS: Uncertainty over payment of dues goes
Thirty-eight SPs, who had gone without Eid bonuses or any salary for the last two months due to complications over their posting in Rab, will finally get their salaries as they were attached to Police Headquarters last week.
30 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Hunt on for key Neo-JMB bomb expert
Ismail Hasan Furkan, the key explosives expert and trainer of Neo-JMB, is at the top of the law enforcers’ wanted list as he continues to make most of its members efficient in producing bombs.
29 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Currency counterfeiters on the prowl around Eid
Money counterfeiting gangs are active again ahead of Eid-ul-Azha as it is relatively easier for them to circulate fake notes in cattle markets, according to law enforcers.
18 July 2021, 18:00 PM