17 senior cops may be sent into forced retirement
22 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Seventeen senior police officials are likely to be sent into forced retirement over alleged allegiance to the Awami League, family ties to the party, roles in manipulating the 2014 and 2018 elections, repression of the opposition, and corruption.
22 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Milestone tragedy: Probe blames human error, unsafe building
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Human error arising from inadequate training and supervision was the principal cause of the Milestone school plane crash, while an unsafe school building and failures in planning and emergency response worsened the consequences.
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
‘We have become living corpses’
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Almost every afternoon, Reshma Karim keeps a plateful of food on the table for her 14-year-old son, as she waits for him to return from school.
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Narcotics dept can work at borders, carry arms
19 July 2026, 00:00 AM
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) can now conduct its own raids, searches, seizures, arrests and investigations along the country’s borders and at land ports, airports and seaports under the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act, 2026.
19 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Cyber slavery: Bangladeshis forced into online scams in Cambodia
17 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Trafficking victim Tofail Ahmed said he was sold to a heavily guarded cyber scam facility in Cambodia.
17 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Sold into cyber slavery / How Bangladeshi jobseekers are trafficked into Cambodia's scam compounds
16 July 2026, 10:00 AM
Hundreds of Bangladeshis have been rescued from Cambodia's infamous scam centres in recent weeks.
16 July 2026, 10:00 AM
In search of work, caught in war
12 July 2026, 00:00 AM
30 Bangladeshis went to Russia on work visas; 4 dead, 2 missing after alleged war deployment
12 July 2026, 00:00 AM
‘If I’m alive, I’ll come back’
10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
In the remote Laur village, under Brahmanbaria’s Nabinagar upazila, Nazmin Akter has been waiting many months for a call from her husband, Kamrul Hasan, who left home for Russia in July last year in search of work but ended up in the Ukraine war.
10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
82pc of them radicalised thru' social media
Around 82 percent of the arrested militant suspects were radicalised through social media platforms, a police study has found.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Fighting Terrorism: Dhaka hosts international police meet March 12-14
Bangladesh will arrange an international conference next week focusing on how to fight violent extremism, terrorism and organised
8 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Country's First Female Police Officer: Fatema persisted despite constant taunts
She was one of the first two women who chose to join the police after their Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) exam in 1984.
But plagued by constant goading and teasing by male colleagues and supervisors, her only female colleague quit the job within the first four months of training at the Public Administration Training Centre in Savar.
7 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Charge pressing stalled as Nitor 'loses' medical reports
The medical reports on teenage twin sisters, who were verbally abused and beaten up severely in the capital's Mirpur in October last year, have gone missing from a city hospital, casting doubt whether the victims will get justice.
16 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Police form new anti-terror teams
Bangladesh Police is going to create commando teams in all metropolitan areas and range police units to deal with any crisis situation such as militant attack or hostage situation.
“The crisis teams will respond to any emergency call within five minutes,” Dr Kh Mahid Uddin, additional deputy inspector general (training and sports) at the police headquarters, told The Daily Star yesterday.
10 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Nature of police demand changes
Moving away from asking only for little things, police in the last three police weeks have been demanding more power and repeal of
31 January 2017, 18:00 PM