The Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested an alleged leader of banned Islamist militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) from the city’s Syedabad area on Tuesday night. The arrestee was identified as M Ibrahim, 40, a leader of the…
Police have recovered the body of a youth from the capital’s Gulshan Lake beside the deplomatic enclave and posh residential areas of Baridhar and Gulshan on Wednesday. Gulshan police OC Rafiqul Islam said locals informed police after spotting the body…
The Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested an alleged leader of banned Islamist militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) from the city’s Syedabad area on Tuesday night. The arrestee was identified as M Ibrahim, 40, a leader of the…
A secondary schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Kodomtali in the Bashabo area of the capital on Monday evening. The deceased was identified as Sadia Salam Shipun, 11, a student of class-VI of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College.
Police have rescued a school girl from Satkania Upazila who was abducted some two weeks ago from Chittagong’s Hathazari Upazila. The 14-year old was saved from Madarsa village of Keochia Union on Friday morning.
Two people, including a Jubo League activist, sustained injuries in separate incidents of gun attack by miscreants in the city’s Motijheel and Segunbagicha areas on Friday night. The injured were identified as Rajibur Rahman Rajib, 27, a Jubo League activist…
At least three alleged members of a robber gang were injured in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Chhoyghoria in Sadar upazila early Monday. The injured were identified as Polash Rahman, 35, son of Sheikh Afazuddin under Patkelghata Police Station in…
The defence in the trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity is due to begin on Monday. The 72-year-old is one of the most high-profile suspects to appear before the…
A court here on Sunday placed former Rab officer Lt Commander MM Rana on a seven-day remand in connection with the killing of seven people, including Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam. Judicial Magistrate KM Mahiuddin passed the order…
Police have arrested the third disgraced RAB officer, former Lt Commander MM Rana, a day after his two colleagues were nabbed, for his suspected involvement in the Narayanganj multiple murders. He was arrested around 1:30am Sunday from Dhaka Cantonment area,…
Five people were found dead in Bogra, Keraniganj of Dhaka and Sylhet districts on Friday. In Bogra, police recovered the partially decomposed body of a Class-VI girl from a vegetable field in Shajahanpur upazila around 11am. The deceased was identified…
The High Court has asked the committee investigating the Narayanganj multiple murders to report progress by June 4. The investigation body, formed at the High Court’s order, filed its primary report on Wednesday and sought a month’s time to finish the…
State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday said the three officials of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), sacked for their alleged involvement in Narayanganj seven murders, will be arrested any time in compliance with the High Court order. “The…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday summoned secretary of expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment Khondaker Showkat Hossain to quiz him over his alleged involvement in obtaining government plots by misusing the power. The commission asked him to appear before the commission’s…
Journalists’ leaders yesterday expressed their deep concern over the deterioration of law and order in the walk of growing killings, enforced disappearances and abduction. Addressing a protest rally organized by Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) in front of the National Press…
Daudkandi Municipality former mayor’s wife sued five physicians of Labaid Hospital on the charge of negligence which caused the death of her husband while the court directed the Vice Chancellor of BSMMU to form a three-member committee including a cardiac…
Relatives of all the seven murder victims of Narayanganj in their testimonies before the administrative probe committee have held Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) responsible for the carnage. They have also demanded arrest of the three sacked RAB-11 members. The committee recorded…
Police on Saturday arrested three people, including a Jubo Dal leader, in connection with the recent disappearance of BNP leader Mujibur Rahman Mujib and his driver from Sunamganj town. The arrestees are Ali Akbar Chowshury, 30, member of the Sunamganj…
A young man was shot to death by miscreants at Kamarjuri in the city early Friday. Police said being informed by locals, they recovered the bullet-ridden body of the unidentified young man, aged 30/32, from a paddy filed in the…
RAB investigations have found evidence of its own officers being involved in the Nayarayanganj murders, several sources inside the elite force say. It has found no proof that suggests involvement of anyone besides RAB and fugitive Ward-4 Councillor Nur Hossain,…
Chief of the probe body, formed to investigate law enforcers’ involvement in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, Md Shahjahan Ali Mollah on Thursday said the fact behind the murder of seven people would be unveiled. “The investigation into the murders will…
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has promised that it will make no effort to protect any of its officials if they are found to be involved in the abduction and murder of seven people including city Councillor Nazrul Islam in…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday approved 10 charge sheets out of 27 cases into the alleged money laundering amounting to Tk 18.68 crore from the Sonali Bank by three companies. The commission had approved charge sheets against a total of…
The wife of slain Narayanganj city Councillor Nazrul Islam has alleged that the police operation at prime accused Nur Hossain’s house is an eyewash. Selina Islam Beauty told bdnews24.com on Saturday that police’s failure to react immediately after the abduction…
Unknown miscreants have abducted a businessman in Noakhali’s Begumganj Upazila, his family says. Abul Bashar, 42, of the Upazila’s Alaiyapur village, was abducted around 10am on Friday. The family notified police in the afternoon, but declined to share details on…
Two policemen have been arrested for the alleged kidnapping of an NGO official and extortion in Kurigram. Maidul Islam, 40, was abducted on Wednesday evening. His younger brother ‘Liton’ filed an extortion case with the Kurigram Sadar Police on Thursday,…
A young man was shot to death by some miscreants at Karaitala in Sadar upazila early Friday. The deceased was identified as Ripon Hossain, son of Helal Uddin of Baintala village in the upazila. The victim’s father said Ripon had…
Police have recovered the body of a middle-aged man on the Mirpur end of the Mirpur-Airport flyover. The man, apparently well-built physically before killing, was stripped of clothes.
Women activist Shirin Huq and Gonoshasthya Kendra founder Zafarullah Chowdhury on Wednesday called all citizens to come down to streets and stage candle light protests against abductions and murders. In a message sent through email they said, “The bodies of…
Family members and relatives have indentified the bodies of three people including panel mayor Nazrul Islam that of six bodies recovered from Shitalakkhya River on Wednesday. The deceased along with Nazrul were identified as Swapon and Ibrahim, driver of…