Twenty-two years after the August 21 grenade attack, the case remains one of the most consequential unresolved cases in Bangladesh’s history. The attack on an Awami League rally that day in 2004 in Dhaka killed 24 people and injured nearly 300. Yet, despite years of investigations, conflicting narratives under successive governments, and death sentences for […]
ICT orders notices in newspapers directing Sheikh Hasina and six other fugitives to surrender The International Crimes Tribunal-2 today sent former Cox’s Bazar-4 MP Abdur Rahman Bodi and three retired army officials to jail after showing them arrested in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of Teknaf councillor Ekramul Haque in an alleged […]
Police have arrested an assistant sub-inspector and another man with 5,310 yaba pills in Dhaka’s Uttara. The arrestees are Md Shafiqul Islam, 43, an assistant sub-inspector at Pallabi Police Station, and Wasim, 24. Faim Uddin, officer-in-charge (OC) of Dakshinkhan Police Station, said police raided the area near Azampur kitchen market early Monday based on a […]
A court in Chattogram has granted a total of 10 days’ remand for recently arrested top terror Mobarak Hossain Emon, also known as David Emon. The order was issued today, Sunday morning by Chattogram Judicial Magistrate Mutasim Billah following police applications in two separate cases involving murder and the recovery of firearms. The remand order […]
A businessman has alleged that a group of masked individuals forcibly entered his office in Motijheel, vandalized office property, assaulted him, and threatened him and his family with serious consequences if he failed to leave Bangladesh. According to the complaint, Abul Faisal, owner of Messrs. Trade Fair, arrived at his office in Motijheel on June […]
It was late at night. Lipika Juliana Gomez (40) was sleeping alone in a fourth-floor flat of a rented house in the Sutrapur area of Old Dhaka. She had no idea of the danger lurking outside. A man entered her flat by climbing down a rope from the roof and breaking the ventilator. He then […]
A young man has alleged that he was abducted and brutally assaulted after leaving Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport following his return to Bangladesh from Thailand. He was later found unconscious near the Padma River in Naria upazila of Shariatpur and taken to a hospital. The victim also claims that police refused to accept his complaint […]
