A foreign national has been arrested in connection with recent ATM frauds in Bangladesh, police have said. Detective Branch (DB) Deputy Commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman said that the foreigner has been identified as Piotr Szcdepan Mazurek, a citizen of Ukraine. Three…
Suspected Islamist militants stabbed to death a Hindu priest at a temple in Bangladesh on Sunday, and shot and wounded a devotee who went to his aid. Police said the attack was perpetrated by a local militant group, while Islamic…
Dhaka – A Hindu priest in Panchagarh has died after being attacked by miscreants just outside the temple he used to serve, bdnews24.com reported on Sunday. Police said the victim Jajneswar Roy, 50, was the head priest at the Santagourhiyo…
Dhaka – A DB inspector was injured in an attack allegedly by militants during a raid on a den of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the city’s Badda area on Friday night.
Dhaka – A suspected burglar gang leader was shot dead during an encounter with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) when the elite force raided his den to foil a daring burglary bid of Sonali Bank Dhamrai Branch at Dhamrai Bazar, in…
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday directed the Bangladesh Armed Forces to uphold their reputation in the UN peacekeeping missions. “We are still a leading peacekeeper contributor of the UN peacekeeping missions … we won’t tolerate any kind of indulgence…
Habiganj –Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested the fourth suspect for the killing of four schoolboys, who had gone missing from Sundrateki village in Bahubal upazila on Friday, from the same village early Thursday. Rubel Miah, son of Abdul…
Police have arrested two men for their suspected connection to the murder of four children in Habiganj’s Bahubal Upazila.Abdul Ali and ‘Jewel’, of Sundrateki village, were nabbed on Wednesday evening, Bahubal police OC Mosharraf Hossain said.The bodies of the four…
Cox’s Bazar police claims to have killed a history sheeter in a shootout involving them and ‘two robber gangs’ at Moheshkhali Upazila.Moheshkhali police’s Inspector Didarul Ferdous said that the encounter took place at Upazila’s Matarbarhi Union.Police claimed the dead, identified…
Gazipur – A suspected criminal was killed in what law enforcers claimed a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Nadibandar area under Tongi police station early Tuesday. Sumon Bhotto, sub-inspector of the police station, said tipped off…
A suspected criminal was killed in what law enforcers claimed a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Nadibandar area in Tongi early Tuesday.Tongi police sub-inspector Sumon Bhotto, said tipped off that criminal Jewel, aged around 30 and…
The United Commercial Bank (UCB) authorities suspect that a foreigner was involved with the gang that stole card information of their clients and withdrew large sums of money from ATM booths by creating duplicates.The bank says it informed police about…
Muggers looted Tk 11.90 lakh after shooting two employees of bKash, a mobile money transfer provider, in Dhaka city’s Kafrul area on Saturday.General manager of the company Zainul Abedin said Mosharraf, 35, and Alamin, 32, collected the money from different…
United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic raped or sexually exploited at least eight women and girls between October and December 2015. Among the survivors are a 14-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman who said peacekeepers gang-raped them near…
A case was filed on Thursday noon against five persons including a police source. The details about the case are yet to be known. Babul Matobbar, 45, a tea stall owner who sustained burn injuries allegedly by policemen on Wednesday…
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed four people, on remand for different terms to quiz them in connection with the killing of an eleven-year old schoolboy after abduction in Keraniganj of the district.
A Dhaka court on Tuesday again deferred the hearing on the charge framing against Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of Awami League MP Pinu Khan, in a case filed for shooting two people to death in the city’s New Eskaton area,…
Dhaka – Customs officials seized 60 gold bars, weighing around 6 kg, from a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here on Tuesday. Assistant Commissioner (Customs) Shahiduzzaman Sarkar told UNB that a flight of the national…
Dhaka – Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday arrested an alleged international human trafficker along with ransom money of Tk 3 lakh from Jatrabari area in the city. The arrested person was identified as Akhter Hossain, 29.
A Sub-Inspector of Adabar Police Station in the city was on Monday suspended as he faces charges of harassing a female private university student. Deputy Commissioner (Tejgaon Division) of Metropolitan Police Biplob Kumar Sarkar, told newsmen that they took the…
Dhaka – A court n Dhaka on Thursday placed Mohammad Kamal, arrested in connection with the sexual harassment of several women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on the Dhaka University campus last year, on a two-day remand. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Abdullah…
There has been no improvement as far as corruption in Bangladesh is concerned, according to Transparency International (TI).The Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog published its Corruptions Perception Index (CPI) 2015, covering 168 countries and regions, on Wednesday.Bangladesh has been ranked 139 with…
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the world’s most wanted drug lord, was captured on January 8 in his home state of Sinaloa, known as the “cradle of Mexican drug trafficking” because of the large number of infamous narcos born there.
Robbers looted valuables worth of Tk7 lakh from an electronics showroom at Wahab Market in Dhaka’s suburb Ashulia on early Thursday.Wahab, owner of the market, said a gang of robbers stormed the showroom, tied and beat up its security guard…
Court Correspondent A woman on Wednesday noon filed a case against five police officials including Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Jatrabari Police Station Aboni Shankar Kor and four other police personnel for allegedly assaulting her.
The High Court on Monday ordered the officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station to accept the complaint of Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabbi, who was allegedly tortured by a policeman, as the first information report (FIR).
Dhaka – Police recovered the body of former central president of ‘Jatiya Chhatra Samaj’ student wing of Jatiya Party, from Easter Housing area of Mirpur in the city on Sunday. The victim was identified as Sayed Mizanur Rahman Himo, 36,…
Dhaka – Members of Airport Armed Police (AAP) arrested a passenger along with Indian currency worth 1.04 crore from Hazrat International Airport on Sunday afternoon. The arrested passenger was identified as Asaduzzaman Mirza, 45, hailing from Pirojpur district.
A court here on Sunday placed Nur Mohammad, chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Group, on a three-day remand in a case filed in connection with the seizure of liquid cocaine at Chittagong Port on June 8 last year.Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate…
Dhaka – Sub-inspector Arshad Hossain Akash was suspended on Saturday night for allegedly assaulting DSCC cleaning inspector Bikash Chandra Das. Maruf Hossain Sardar, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP media), said earlier a probe committee was formed to look…