Shariful Islam

With all four tyres deflated and almost half of each wheel sunk into the ground, one could hardly tell that it is a Toyota Corona Exiv. The car has no windows, not even the front or back windscreens.

Rownak Rehana routinely dusts the trophies her son had won in different competitions and the books he used to read.

Former Faridpur Awami League leader Sajjad Hossain alias Barkat and his brother Imtiaz Hasan alias Rubel amassed Tk 2,535.11 crore beyond their known sources of income, a CID probe has found.

The family members of 2009 Pilkhana massacre victims say they are still in the dark about the reasons behind such a bloodshed and who masterminded the killing of so many people.

Writer-blogger Avijit Roy was killed to gag and discourage freedom of expression so that no one in the country can write or express themselves freely.

It was on July 29, 2011.

Six other cases filed over the killings of secular bloggers, writers and LGBT rights activists are either awaiting verdict or under trial.

Five months have passed since the delivery of the verdict in the case filed over the murder of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny in police custody, but two convicts are still eluding arrest.

Men under the height of 5 feet 6 inches and women under 5 feet 4 inches will not be able to qualify for the post of sub-inspector as some changes in the recruitment criteria for the lower tier of police force is in the offing.

As investigation into the money laundering case against Dhaka city ward councillor Tarequzzamqn Rajib nears completion, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has found a previously undiscovered duplex house owned by him and Tk 1.46 crore deposited in his bank account.

Two schoolgirls lost their way back home in the capital’s Badda from an outing on the night of February 8 last year. Wandering on the road for a few hours, they came across one Emon Hossain.

It was a robbery that caused quite a sensation in Manikganj almost 15 years ago.

Anguished and fed-up by her husband’s frequent torture, Farida Begum lodged a complaint with the newly established beat police office at her union in Satkhira’s Debhata upazila in mid-October.

The government is resuming the long-stalled investigations into 62 cases filed over the mayhem by thousands of Hefajat activists in the capital and elsewhere in May 2013.

The anti-narcotics drive, particularly against yaba, has lost momentum since the killing of Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan in police firing in Teknaf four months ago, resulting in an increase in the availability of the crazy pills in the capital and elsewhere.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has come down hard on its members who have failed the dope tests and were found to be involved in drug trading or collaborating with such traders.

When buses were being torched in Dhaka on November 12 afternoon, Zakir Hossain Siddiqui, a vice-president of Jubo Dal, was undergoing treatment for a blood disease at LabAid Hospital.

Biplob Chandra Baidya, a youth from Bhola, has been languishing in jail for a year even though a hacker, arrested by police, confessed to have circulated anti-religious messages using his Facebook ID.

When a portion of his shop in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar was demolished by the men of lawmaker Haji Salim in April 2019, Aftab Ahmed did whatever he could to save the rest of his shop in a century-old building.

Abandoned by her husband and struggling to feed her two children, Nazma Begum thought moving overseas for work would change her life.