A young man wearing a mask and helmet makes a short visit to a local internet service provider’s office in the capital’s Badda Gudaraghat, and on his way out, he pulls a gun out of his pocket and shoots in the general direction of an employee of the establishment without hitting him.
A good job with a handsome salary in Libya -- this is what was promised to Md Romel Mia around two months ago by a migrant trafficking gang.
The strong influence of armed group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) in Chin and Rakhine states of Myanmar and Mizoram and Manipur states of India has led to its creation in Bangladesh, said security analyst Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain.
Villagers beat four people to death and severely injured another one in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila on Sunday night on suspicion that they were robbers.
The hostages on board the hijacked Bangladesh-flagged ship were taken to their cabins from the bridge after the pirates anchored the vessel as dawn broke over the Somali port of Garacad.
Neither the government nor the firm that owns the Bangladesh-flagged ship hijacked with 23 crew members has been able to contact the hostages or pirates as of last night.
Killing along the Bangladesh-India border marked a gradual rise over the last three years despite repeated state-level commitments to bring such killings down to zero.
Rayhan Sharif, the arrested doctor who shot his student during a viva on Monday, had bought his two pistols illegally from a southern district.
Authorities have made primary lists of upazila nirbahi officers and officers-in-charge of police stations to transfer in the first phase of the Election Commission’s move to reposition all UNOs and OCs ahead of the January 7 national election.
In a rare move, the Election Commission has asked for the transfer of all upazila nirbahi officers and officers-in-charge of police stations across the country.
Fire service says 7.7 vehicles torched daily on average since October 28; number was 12 per day on Nov 19, 20
Alamin Kazi of Magura’s Shalikha, an expatriate businessman in Malaysia, was in deep sleep at his Kuala Lumpur residence at 4:30am on November 3.
The Daily Star has spoken to 20 BNP leaders and activists and their families in Dhaka and elsewhere, and like Moksud, each has a distressing story to tell.
Multiple lawyers dealing with some of these cases said a number of Dhaka courts have been recording depositions of prosecution witnesses beyond court hours.
The home ministry has requested the public administration ministry to approve more in-situ posts of additional inspector general and deputy inspector general of police.
Banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) hardly poses any security risks at this moment.
Around a week ago, Sub-Inspector Anwarul Islam and Assistant Sub-Inspector Haridas Roy of the capital’s Pallabi Police Station arrested a man in Adarsha Nagar on charges of selling cannabis.
Nibir, Md Shahjalal, and former Shahjahanpur thana Chhatra League leader Oliullah Rubel were known to be close friends and notorious for extorting hawkers on footpaths, and operating goat markets in Malibagh.