Mohammad Jamil Khan

Less than 2 percent of all rape cases filed in the last five years ended in conviction. This is mainly because many perpetrators force the victims to settle the matter outside courts and the legal process is so humiliating that the victims back out. Data for Dhaka metropolitan areas paint an even grimmer picture. Just 1.06 percent cases saw convictions in the last 15 years, according court and prosecution sources.

On the midnight of April 26, Jahir Uddin complained of severe chest pain at Dhaka Central Jail. The jail authorities decided to take him to DMCH since the hospital inside the jail does not have facilities to tackle any emergency situation.

The day started like any other day for AG Mahmud on September 28, 1977. He was in a regular cabinet meeting that day. As the air chief and deputy Chief Marshal Law Administrator who was also holding portfolios of some ministries, this was business as usual.

Bangladesh Police is finally going to get a fully-fledged unit with jurisdiction to combat militancy and terrorism anywhere in the country.

The Jhenidah den that counterterrorism officials busted on Friday was a “Neo JMB” bomb-making factory from where explosives were supplied to other dens of the militant group, officials say.

More than 300 million people are now living with depression, a leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide, according to the latest estimates from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Before being killed along with his wife and children during the police raid in Moulvibazar's Nasirpur last week, Sohel Rana alias Lokman remained missing for about a decade, friends and family members have said.

Three suspected militants were found dead inside the Moulvibazar's Borohat den as police wrapped up their 82-hour raid on the hideout yesterday.

Suspected militants at Moulvibazar's Borohat den held their ground by putting up a defiant resistance throughout the day yesterday, forcing police to eventually suspend their operation as soon as dark fell.

The 34-hour siege at one of the two suspected terror hideouts in Moulvibazar ended yesterday with the recovery of body parts of seven to eight people, including a number of children, inside the den at Nasirpur in Sadar upazila.

The militants at Atia Mahal were expert bomb makers and the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) found in the Sylhet den were all homemade, investigators have said.

Two more militants were killed in the army-led operation at Atia Mahal in Sylhet city with the four-day siege to the terrorist hideout drawing to an end yesterday.

Two militants were killed during the army-led operation inside the terror den at Atia Mahal in Sylhet yesterday, as the raid to take on the terrorists holed up there entered its third day, making it one of the longest anti-terror operations. However, the operation codenamed “Operation Twilight” was far from over as more militants were believed to be still inside the five-storey apartment.

Police are yet to identify the “serial killer” who in the span of less than two months murdered three women and injured two other females in the capital's Dakkhin Khan area last year.

Police have drawn up a list of nearly 5,000 suspected militants and a special drive is underway to arrest them.

Around 82 percent of the arrested militant suspects were radicalised through social media platforms, a police study has found.

Bangladesh will arrange an international conference next week focusing on how to fight violent extremism, terrorism and organised

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.

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.

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.