Rafiul Islam

The overall human rights situation in the country was as alarming in the just concluded year as it had been in the past three years, according to rights body Ain o Salish Kendra.

KM Shamim Akhter was forced into a microbus near his Paltan home on the morning of September 29, 2011 by five to six armed men claiming to be members of a law enforcement agency. His wife Jhorna Khanam and other family members left no stone unturned to find him out. But he still remains traceless.

Anyone walking down the street in front of the main entrance to the DMCH emergency unit would encounter an awful sight: used syringes, bandages, dressings, saline bags and many other medical waste littering the pavement.

The police probe into the 2015 attack on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's motorcade in the city's Karwan Bazar has failed to identify any of the attackers though photographs of many of them were published in the media. The BNP chief's convoy came under attack during a campaign for city corporation election in April. Two and a half years later, her motorcade was attacked twice within only four days this week in Feni.

It is human nature to learn from past experiences. But when it comes to deaths in so-called crossfire, law enforcement agencies seem to have learned nothing of the sort. Rights activists say almost every time a detainee is taken out for a “raid”, he gets killed. So by now, law enforcers should know that they may “come under attack” by criminals, as they claim. Then why don't they protect the detainee?

Five-year-old Mahin was over the moon as he would celebrate the festivities of Eid with both his parents this year.

Young homeopath Moklesur Rahaman Johnny went out of his chamber to buy medicine for his father on August 4 night last year, but he never returned. He did not just disappear, according to his wife Jesmin Nahar as she had seen him in the lockup of the Satkhira Sadar Police Station the next morning when she had gone there to ask police to find her husband.

With the dream of a better life, Fatema left for Saudi Arabia without telling anyone in her family.

A double-decker bus of Dhaka University takes the wrong side in Shahbagh area despite the authorities’ decision to cancel a route if buses are seen using the wrong way. The driver of Chaitali, the Mirpur-bound bus from the campus, was seen plying the wrong side near the National Museum, reports our correspondent from the spot.

A video clip shows that Siddiqur Rahman collapsed to the ground when a policeman shot a teargas canister directly at the agitating college students at Shahbagh on Thursday.

After the emergence of “Neo JMB” in 2014, its leaders chose Sohel Mahfuz for his expertise in bomb-making and knowledge about arms smuggling routes and smugglers in bordering areas.

The 400-year-old Rath Mela in Dhamrai, a fair that is integral to Hindu festival Rathjatra Utsab, was shut down Saturday night allegedly over a rift between the local lawmaker and municipality mayor.

Md Abdul Aziz was a 28-year-old electrician from Gazipur looking for a partner to spend his life with. But the ordeal he had to go through to meet a prospective bride went so bad that he was left with haunting memories and a wish not to get married anytime soon.

The Banani rape accused were able to destroy evidence due to the negligence of police officials concerned, said a number of law

She neither wore nor washed the dress since she was allegedly raped on March 28.

A year has passed since the murder of LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend, but police could neither complete the investigation nor arrest any of the five killers.

“Be patient. Remain quiet.” This is what the investigator has been saying to Tonu's family for months, instead of updating probe findings of the sensational murder inside Comilla Cantonment.

Arijit Chakma Prithu has a disliking for claw hair clips. One afternoon six years ago this autistic young man was out walking in the city's Chandrima Udyan. He saw a girl with such a clip and grabbed it.

Militants and criminals are still obtaining passports on fake information with the help of some unscrupulous policemen and officials of the passport department.

Mahir Sarowar Megh was only five when his parents were brutally killed in the bedroom of their apartment in the capital's West Rajabazar.