Rafiul Islam

In the wake of recent spate of targeted killings, including that of SP Babul Akter's wife on Sunday, the police department is

Six-year-old Mohammad Yusuf was holding a pair of sandals of his mother at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, hoping she would put them on soon.

Law enforcers will now be immediately alerted to any suspicious gathering or movement of individuals and any unusual incident in the capital's diplomatic zone under a new surveillance system.

The parents of Sohagi Jahan Tonu called for the immediate arrest of her rapists and killers yesterday, a day after the CID

Tonu is dead! That's the only thing investigators can say for sure after more than a month since the body of the 19-year-old was found in Comilla Cantonment area.

A woman managed to briefly meet her imprisoned husband face to face, bribing her way through prison guards at Dhaka

A woman has managed a chance to ‘reunite’ with her imprisoned husband bribing her way through prison guards. Successful for a brief period of time, she got caught in the act.

The owner of an unregistered luxury car left his vehicle in front of the Customs Intelligence office in Sylhet, apparently being unable to pay the taxes and get the vehicle registered.

Sylhet customs officials find a Lexus luxury car abandoned outside their office. The car carries a letter, apparently from the owner who chose to remain anonymous, that says the vehicle has been surrendered to the tax collectors out of respect for the law.

Tonu had an artiste within her, which she was well aware of and so wanted dearly to flourish.

Mizanur Rahman Sohag, a friend of Sohagi Jahan Tonu's younger brother, was released by his abductors early yesterday, 16 days after he was picked up from his house in Burichang upazila of Comilla by a group of men posing as law enforcers.

Yaar Hossain, father of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, rejects the inquest report as it does not mention some injury marks he saw on his daughter's body after finding her murdered on the night of March 20.

Investigators are poised to make a breakthrough soon in the probe into the murder of Comilla college student

The National Human Rights Commission will seek prime minister's interference if the second autopsy on Sohagi Jahan Tonu turns out to be as shoddy as the first one, its chairman said.

The first autopsy found no sign of rape on the body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu and also failed to ascertain the cause of her death.

A section of cops are getting involved in criminal offences despite repeated warnings of stern action from the police high-ups.

A Christian priest in the capital received a death threat for a second time yesterday, barely three days before

The sheet on Abdul Quddus' bed at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital was not white. The colour had faded. There were splodges of mucus and pus from his burnt leg. Marks of the ointment put on his leg were all over the sheet. It reeked. It was a filthy bed sheet.

A mob, brought together by a call over loudspeakers from mosques, beat eight robbers to death when they were taking away rice sacks at Araihazar of Narayanganj early yesterday, police and locals said.

Customs officials could not believe their eyes when they were handling merely a packet of blanket.