Ruling out any specific threat, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said on Saturday police is determined to prevent any fear of deteriorating law and order situation. He made the remarks in a briefing on security measures over the…
Dhaka, Dec 27 – In a special drive, detectives arrested some 56 suspected muggers from different areas of the capital on Tuesday night.
Dhaka, Dec 26 – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said no open air event will be allowed on the 31st Night to celebrate the New Year.
Chuadanga, Dec 27 – A suspected top leader of outlawed ‘Janajuddha Party’ was killed in an alleged gunfight with police at Bhalaipur on Chuadanga-Meherpur road in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.
Dhaka, 26 Dec – A Bangladesh film director along with his associate has been detained in Kuala Lumpur on human trafficking charge. Local police arrested film director Anonno Mamun and his associate Miraj on Sunday evening, according to available sources.
Rajshahi – Members of Department of Narcotics Control on Saturday arrested a college principal with ten pieces of Yaba tablets from Kharail village at Mohanpur upazila in Rajshahi.
Police arrested an alleged mugger over the death of a six-month-old baby who fell off his mother’s lap and died during a mugging incident in the city’s Doyaganj area on December 18. “The prime accused Rajib was arrested from the…
Saudi Arabia has detained more people for questioning and asked banks to freeze new accounts nearly seven weeks after its corruption crackdown started, according to reports. Earlier this month, the kingdom’s public prosecutor said 320 people had been subpoenaed to…
Australian police have arrested two people after a car drove into a crowd in Melbourne. The car “collided with a number of pedestrians” on Flinders Street, a busy junction in the centre of the city, said Victoria Police. Fourteen people…
Action has been taken against an alleged Islamist terror plot in the UK that could have happened at Christmas, counter terrorism sources say. Four men were arrested early on Tuesday in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. An Army bomb disposal team…
New York, (AP/UNB) – When an immigrant from Bangladesh set off a bomb in New York city’s subway system this week, he was the only person injured. But New York city’s vibrant Bangladeshi community is worried that it, too, may…
A man has been arrested in Sydney for allegedly acting as an economic agent for North Korea, Australian Federal Police (AFP) have said. Chan Han Choi, 59, has been charged with brokering illegal exports from the country and discussing the…
Dhaka – Bangladesh police have not found any evidence of Akayed Ullah’s involvement in militant activities at home who allegedly blew up his homemade explosive in a pedestrian subway tunnel in the heart of the Midtown Manhattan in New York.
Dhaka – The BNP has presented its statistics of murders, abduction and ‘cooked-up’ charges against its leaders, and said that the Awami League government has made human rights disappear from Bangladesh.
Dhaka – Two young men were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police in the city’s Badda area early Friday. Officer-in-charge of Badda Police Station Kazi Wajed Ali said the two bullet-hit youths, aged between…
Dhaka – The wife of columnist and poet Farhad Mazhar yesterday rejected the investigation report of the Detective Branch (DB) that it did not find any proof of Farhad’s abduction and sought time to lodge a no confidence petition in…
Dhaka – A court of Dhaka on Monday deferred the date for submission of the probe report in the case filed in connection with the murder of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mizanur Ranman Talukder.
Dhaka – The charge sheet in Holey Artisan attack case will be submitted by this month said Monirul Islam, Chief of CCounter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC) on Sunday.
Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah has been released more than three weeks after he was detained on allegations of corruption, officials say. Prince Miteb, once seen as a contender to the throne, was freed after agreeing an “acceptable settlement” with…
Three presumed militants were killed today as elite anti-crime force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) wrapped up their overnight crackdown at a militant den in Sadar upazila of the district, officials said. “We have wrapped up the operation . . .…
Savar, Nov 25 – A female sub-inspector of police of Savar Model Police Station was found hanging at her staff quarters on Saturday night.
Dhaka, Nov 24 – A man was killed in police firing in the city’s Khilgaon area early Friday.
Dhaka, Nov 18-Businessman Aniruddha Kumar Roy has returned to his Gulshan residence on early Thursday after 70 days of his reported abduction, police said quoting his family members.
Rajshahi – After 30 hours of abduction the female student of Rajshahi University (RU) has been rescued from Dhaka, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) informed. Besides rescuing the missing student Shuva, her abductor and former husband Sohel Rana has also been…
Notorious Sicilian Mafia “boss of all bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina has died from cancer in jail, aged 87. Riina was serving 26 life sentences and is believed to have ordered more than 150 murders. The head of the feared Cosa…
Robert J. Burrowes In a recent incident in the United States, yet another unarmed man was shot dead by police after opening his front door in response to their knock. The police were going to serve an arrest warrant on…
A man was killed and 20 people, including four policemen, were injured in a clash between law enforcers and locals at Thakurbari village in Sadar upazila on Friday over a youth’s Facebook post ‘demeaning’ Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PUBH). Additional superintendent…
Dhaka – The Inspector General of Bangladesh Police Shahidul Haque has categorically said there is no threat of militant attack in Bangladesh.
The gunman who killed 26 churchgoers in Texas fled from a mental health clinic in 2012, according to a police report. El Paso officers who detained Devin Kelley five years ago were told he was “a danger to himself and…
At least 26 people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a church during Sunday services, officials say. The attack happened at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small town in Wilson County, Texas. The gunman,…