Tousif Kaium

After filing a case in 2020 accusing 14 people of trafficking his son to Libya and extorting money through torture, Mannan Munshi saw it move to trial and pass through years of hearings -- only to collapse before charges were framed.

For more than a year, Shakil Ahmed from Sunamganj Sadar survived in Libya on a single meal a day -- a piece of hard, stale bread; some vegetables; and half a litre of water.

Former Jatiya Sangsad speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury had arrived at her cousin’s residence in Dhanmondi just hours before she was arrested early yesterday in an attempted murder case linked to the 2024 July uprising.

At least six people died after a fire tore through a gas lighter manufacturing factory at the Kadamtali intersection in Keraniganj yesterday.

Customers were allegedly locked inside a restaurant during the deadly blaze at Green Cozy Cottage on Bailey Road to ensure bill payments, according to findings by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has recovered around $3.622 million that was collected from people and siphoned abroad through the MTFE scam.

Nearly a decade after the Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist stunned the world, investigators say they have identified 65 to 70 suspects across seven countries and are now preparing to submit the charge sheet soon.

While rows of colourful clothes in makeshift stalls along the busy footpath beside the BMTC building remain untouched despite Eid approaching, vendors in the capital’s Karwan Bazar are grappling with low profits and the continued burden of extortion payments.