A manager of a Ice Cream company was gunned down in the city’s Central Road of Kalabagan on early Saturday. The victim was identified as Obaidul Haque, 35, a manager of Kuality Ice cram company, a sister concern of Sanwar…
Category: Governance
BCL Bangla College leader arrested
Police has arrested president of Chhatra League Bangla College unit from near Kafrul Thana on early Saturday on charge of instigating a girl student of the same college to commit suicide. Sub-inspector Moniruzzaman of Kafrul thana said Fatematuz zohora alias…
Fake stamp worth Taka 61 crore recovered
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) recovered fake stamps worth around Tk 60.66 crore raiding a printing press in the city’s Lalkuthi area on Friday. A special team of CID conducted the drive at the printing press located at 157 Lalkuthi of…
Two alleged Islami militants arrested
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested two suspected Islamic Militants, including the alleged commander of a newly formed Islamic ‘jihadi group,’ from Mohammadpur area in the city on Wednesday. Three foreign made pistols, 16 roubd bullets and…
Three ‘robbers’ beaten dead in Faridpur
Three suspected robbers were beaten to death by a mob at Koijuri in Sadar upazila on Wednesday night.Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
3 held with Tk10 lakh fake notes
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested three people including a woman in possession of 10,000 fake currency notes worth Tk10 lakh from Humayun Rashid Chattar in the city on Wednesday.
11 robbers held with firearm, weapons in Sylhet
Police arrested 11 members of an inter-district robber gang along with one pipe-gun, three sharp weapons and three rounds of bullet from Bagher Sarak area in Goainghat upazila on Wednesday evening.
Youth held with 530 grams heroin in C’nawabganj
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a young man along with 530 grams of heroin from Bashudebpur area of Godagari upazila on Wednesday afternoon.
Abducted UP chairman rescued in Savar
Police in a drive rescued a union parishad chairman who had been abducted from Manikganj and arrested four alleged abductors from Jaleswar area of Savar municipality on Wednesday.The rescued was identified as Abdur Rashid, 73, and chairman of Shimulia union…
MP’s son Rony on fresh remand for killing 2
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony on a fresh remand of four days in a case filed in connection with the killing of two people on road of Dhaka on April…
Justice system fails society’s poorest – British minister
The “creaking and outdated” justice system in England and Wales is failing society’s poorest, Michael Gove is to say in his first speech as justice secretary. He will say the best legal provision is the preserve of the wealthy, while…
Warrant arrest against actor Sharif
A Dhaka court on Monday issued arrest warrant against film actor Ahmed Sharif in a case filed in connection with irregularities over a cheque. Magistrate Mustafizur Rahman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court of Dhaka passed the order as…
Warrant against Rafiq, 32 Bnp leaders in bomb case
A Dhaka court on Monday issued arrest warrant against 33 BNP leaders including Standing Committee Member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah and Joint Secretary-General Amanullah Aman in a case filed for hurling petrol bomb on a bus in Mirpur area of…
Bnp leader Papia’s bail petitions rejected
A Dhaka court on Monday rejected the bail petitions of BNP leader and former lawmaker Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papia in nine cases filed in connection with the alleged arson attack and sabotage during the BNP-led 20 party alliance’s countrywide shutdown and…
107 Yaba tablets seized in Sherpur
Police in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 107-piece Yaba tablets from in front of Sribordi Government College Hostel in Sribordi upazila on Sunday.
Drug peddler sentenced jail
A mobile court here on Sunday sentenced six people to six months imprisonment and another to one year for their involvement in drug peddling.
3 women held with 50k Yaba
Police arrested three women, including two from the Rohingya community, with 50,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from Najirpara village of the bank of Naf River in Teknaf upazila early Monday.The arrested were identified as Nasima Akter, 20, wife of Abdur…
5 got life imprisonment for acid attack in Netrakona
An Acid Crimes Control Tribunal here on Monday convicted five people and sentenced them to life imprisonment for hurling acid on a housewife and her two daughters on May 19, 2007.
RAB held drug peddler in Jamalpur
Members of Rapid Action Battalion-14 (RAB) in a raid arrested a drug peddler along with contraband drugs at Bakshiganj upazila of the district Saturday evening.The alleged drug peddler was identified as Md. Sujat, 22, son of Md. Joyenuddin, hails from…
Mobile to punish even if guilt not confessed to?
The Cabinet on Monday approved the ‘Mobile Court (Amendment) Bill 2015’ to empower such court to punish offenders even if one does not confess to the offence. The approval, subject to the Law Ministry’s vetting, came from the Cabinet’s weekly…
Hearing on police’s 10-day remnd plea for Rony Wednesday
A Dhaka court yesterday fixed Wednesday to hear on the pleas of the detectives to place Bakhtiar Alam Rony on a 10-day remand in a case filed in connection with the shooting incident in Dilu Road of the city on…
ICT withdraws warrant against Dr. Zafrullah seeing HC stay
A tribunal here on Sunday withdrew the warrant it issued earlier for the arrest of Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury on contempt of court charges. The International Crimes Tribunal-2 recalled the arrest warrant after Zafrullah Chowdhury submitted the copy…
Drug trader held with 200 bottles of phensidyl
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug trader with 200 bottles of contraband Indian phensidyl syrup from Sundarpur Bagdanga area under sadar upazila of the district on Friday.
8 gamblers sent to jail in Sirajganj
A mobile court here on Friday convicted eight people and sentenced them to three months’ jail on charge of gambling in Ullapara upazila.
Mojaheed to file review petition before SC
Condemned war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed has decided to file a petition seeking the review of the Supreme Court verdict thatupheld his death sentence for killing intellectuals during the Liberation War in 1971. “Mojaheed has told us…
4 of an indigenous family stabbed dead
A woman of an indigenous community and three more members of her family were killed and another was injured allegedly by her son-in-law over a family feud at Bhimpur in Panchbibi upazila early Saturday.
Fake stamps worth 18 crore seized, one held in city
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) recovered huge quantity of fake stamps, included Judicial, non-judicial and revenue stamps, worth about Tk 18 crore and arrested one person from Lalkuthi Darus salam thana area on in the city on Friday. Acting on a…
20 hurt in clash over land in Savar
At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over taking possession of a piece of land at Shyampur village in the upazila on Friday night.Quoting locals, police said there had been a longstanding rivalry…
College girl raped in Mirpur, police rounds up 3 youths
A college girl became victim of rape in the city’s Mirpur on Saturday. Police arrested three youths in connection the rape incident. However, the rapist remained absconding soon after the incident. Quoting the victim, a first year (Hons) student of…
DU lab asstt 3 more held for alleged help to ‘militants’
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan police in separate drives arrested a Lab assistant of Dhaka University and three other people involved in chemicals business from different parts of the city on Thursday for their alleged involvement in supplying chemicals…