The knife she brought and the murders that followed
Suspect Ayesha told the family she had neither a phone nor an NID
10 December 2025, 14:21 PM
10 December 2025, 14:21 PM
‘We teach, but we can’t feed our children’
Mohammad Ishak, who has been teaching at a madrasa in Sylhet for over 34 years, draws a monthly salary of only Tk 26,980 -- hardly enough to support his family and cover the educational expenses of his three children.
19 October 2025, 18:09 PM
19 October 2025, 18:09 PM
Recovery of Looted Firearms: Announcing rewards brings no fruition
Despite the home ministry’s announcement of significant rewards 10 days ago, no actionable information has been provided to the police regarding the firearms looted during last year’s July uprising.
4 September 2025, 21:07 PM
4 September 2025, 21:07 PM
43 bodies a month recovered from rivers this year
Bodies of a woman and a child were recovered from the Buriganga River on August 23. Autopsies initially found that they had been strangled before their bodies were dumped. A murder case was filed with Sadarghat River Police Station in this regard.
29 August 2025, 18:30 PM
29 August 2025, 18:30 PM
Cocaine haul raises transit route concerns
A Guyanese national was arrested with around 8.6kg of cocaine at Dhaka airport yesterday, and officials said the drug was not meant for local use.
26 August 2025, 18:05 PM
26 August 2025, 18:05 PM
‘We will sleep in the car’
Two men found dead inside a car parked in the basement of a private hospital in Dhaka on Monday had earlier told the car owner that they would sleep in the vehicle.
12 August 2025, 21:59 PM
12 August 2025, 21:59 PM
Riyad-led group targeted another former AL MP
The group led by former Students Against Discrimination leader Abdur Razzak Riyad, arrested for allegedly extorting a former Awami League lawmaker’s family in Gulshan, had targeted another ex-AL MP, Abdul Kalam Azad, a month earlier, said police.
30 July 2025, 20:00 PM
30 July 2025, 20:00 PM
Govt launches combing operation
The government has launched a combing operation “to root out crime and restore public order” amid a spate of criminal activities across the country.
13 July 2025, 19:08 PM
13 July 2025, 19:08 PM
BNP pinned down on its own turf
The BNP has virtually been sidelined in its Lakshmipur stronghold while its rival Awami League's campaigning has been going on in full swing.
24 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Defy obstacles, cast your vote
Top leaders of the Jatiya Oikyafront yesterday said December 30 would be the “day of freedom” for the country's people as no one would be able to snatch their victory in the 11th parliamentary election.
19 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Police to get AL men's help!
Noakhali police have drawn up a polling centre-based list of Awami League men to “take help” from them for carrying out duties on the voting day.
18 December 2018, 18:00 PM
No sight of 'sheaf of paddy'
Setting foot in Noakhali-5 constituency -- made up of Kabirhat and Companiganj upazilas -- one may think that no one from the BNP is contesting for this seat in the December 30 polls.
16 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Ghost cases, again
Abu Taher died of cancer eight years ago.
15 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Death in 'shootouts' shoots up in 2018
Ziaur Rahman left his Cox's Bazar home in September and went on a religious tour fearing he would be arrested or killed during the anti-narcotics drive of law enforcers.
9 December 2018, 18:00 PM
One year on, still no trace
“It has now reached the point where it seems as though my father never existed.”
3 December 2018, 18:00 PM
66pc radicalised by family members
Over 66 percent of female terror suspects have taken the path of militancy being influenced by their family members, mostly their husbands, according to a finding of the Counter Terrorism unit.
19 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Of strange shootouts
Ever since her husband was killed four months ago, one question has been bothering Nazma Khatun – “how does a person in police custody get killed by others?”
18 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Dhaka streets still mired in chaos
Most pedestrians were jaywalking at Shahbagh. Only a handful used the zebra crossings and footbridges. Buses were picking up and dropping off passengers in the middle of streets as rickshaws waited for passengers blocking part of the busy intersection.
1 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Nobody knows where they are
Fourteen-year-old Nasrullah has no reply to his mother's repeated phone calls asking the whereabouts of his elder brother, who has remained missing since plainclothes men picked him up from Jatrabari two weeks ago.
26 September 2018, 18:00 PM
A case, many questions
Luthful Haque was treated at Labaid hospital in the capital's Dhanmondi for seven days from August 4 for hypertension, diabetes and kidney complications.
10 September 2018, 18:00 PM
'Model traffic system' for 7km stretch of city road
The government has decided to ensure strict enforcement of traffic rules on the road stretching from Zero Point to Jahangir Gate on a month-long pilot basis, starting from tomorrow.
3 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Photo albums are all they have
A photo album is all Tasin has to see his father.
29 August 2018, 18:00 PM
The mindset needs to change first
It was around 11:30am yesterday.
14 August 2018, 18:00 PM
Yaba Invasion-2: An open affair with death
It was like wooing customers to have kebab and biriyani at popular Bihari restaurants. Only a few steps into the Camper Bazar, youths in small groups were looking for potential customers, holding packets full of pink tablets.
12 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Tougher law to deal with drug cases
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) has drafted a law keeping a provision of death penalty for producing or processing more than 200 grams of yaba pills or the same amount of its ingredients.
2 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Probe itself a mystery
Saleha Monir has never visited her son and daughter-in-law's graves.
10 February 2018, 18:00 PM
BB still waits to get back $66m in stolen money
Two years have gone by since the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, but Bangladesh could not bring back the major chunk of the $81 million wired to the Philippines from BB's account with the New York Fed.
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Militants in Prisons: Deradicalisation call falls on deaf ears
The fight against militancy remains challenging as ever as dozens of militants are getting freed every year from prisons that have no de-radicalisation programmes.
21 January 2018, 18:00 PM