If dominance is present, the border between “agreement” and “compliance” becomes difficult to distinguish

Business leaders and government officials at an event yesterday stressed the urgent need to improve the law-and-order situation and strengthen market management, warning that business confidence and sustainable economic growth will remain elusive unless immediate and effective measures are taken.

Monthly review meetings mandated to strengthen crime prevention and coordination

Govt must curb mob tendencies, check disturbances by party activists

The popular uprising that led to the downfall of the former regime has left law and order in a state of decline.

Law enforcement agencies will increase the number of checkpoints in key locations across the capital

In a city where survival has taken the place of living, the loss of trust in law enforcement isn’t just personal—it’s a crack in the foundation of society.

Forces already being deployed, says DG

The leading chamber wants quick formation of interim government

What people like Milton Samaddar and Tipu Kibria show us about society.

That justice for rape survivors is a mirage in this country is no news, with a miserable conviction rate of three percent in rape cases.

Newly appointed Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq today said police have nothing to do with politics.

Data protection and privacy are recognised as fundamental rights. An individual’s ‘private life’ includes the protection of his or her personal

Charges should be pressed against any ruling party men who would lobby for not taking action against drug dealers, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder told a views-exchange meeting yesterday.

Taking lessons from the past, law enforcement agencies are redoing their strategies to keep law and order under control in this election year. As part of their plan, police and different intelligence agencies will prepare a fresh list of wanted criminals and probable political troublemakers ahead of the election and launch drives to arrest them. Special drives will also be made to recover illegal firearms, said a number of top police officials.

Good governance cannot be there if the government takes law in its hand to retain its existence somehow or other, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Chairperson Sultana Kamal says.

Election Commission withholds all process for holding elections to all the 16 union councils of Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi.

A total of 14 platoons Border Guard Bangladesh members have been deployed in Dhaka city to avert any untoward incident ahead of Jamaat enforced tomorrow’s hartal.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks the authorities concerned to stay alert so that the Jamaat-Shibir activists and those involved in terrorist and militant acts could not be recruited in the police force.

Members of the cabinet committee on law and order yesterday came down heavily on police for torturing a Bangladesh Bank official and a staff of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), saying those incidents had tarnished the image of the department.