Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali has said the police are making a list of extortionists and will soon launch drives to arrest them.

Extortion is continuing after the recent political changeover in the country. The void left behind by the previous extortionists has been filled by new ones.

On the footpath next to the General Post Office in the capital, Sohel Howlader sells children’s clothes from a small table.

A trader died after a local gang attacked him for not paying the money they demanded as extortion in Dhaka's Mirpur area last night, his family said

The Criminal Investigation Department has found involvement of at least 30 people in laundering Tk 2,000 crore while investigating a case filed against two Faridpur brothers Sajjad Hossain Barkat and Imtiaz Hasan Rubel. 

Former LGRD minister and Awami League MP Khandker Mosharraf Hossain’s fall from grace continued yesterday as he was removed from the post of chief of the parliamentary standing committee on the LGRD ministry.

Nuruzzaman Raju owned a mobile phone repair shop in the capital’s Gulistan.

The elder brother of Paul Pogba and four others are "likely to be charged" on Saturday in an extortion case targeting the French football star, judicial sources said.

Authorities must fix existing challenges to bring them back for trial

Authorities must address the grim findings of TIB survey on corruption.

DSCC must take action against the authorised company for harassing vehicle drivers

It was a sombre occasion at the Dhaka Reporters Unity premises on April 30.

Two assistant sub-inspectors have been withdrawn for allegedly assisting a man in extortion in Narayanganj.

The use of an elephant to stop vehicles on the Gazipur-Pubail road to collect extortion money, as can be seen in a photograph published by this newspaper yesterday, although not uncommon in our country, should raise a number of questions. Questions that mostly concern animal rights.

Once upon a time city people have to go to the zoo or out into the jungle to see elephants. But now, people can find elephants, most of them in a sorry state, on many city streets as they are used for collecting money from the commuters. Take for example, people commuting through the Airport Road are seen panicking, when their vehicles were barred by an elephant, creating havoc on the road near Kuril flyover in Dhaka.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says the government will deal with an iron hand, if anyone tries to extort the businessmen ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.

A Dhaka court orders a judicial enquiry into an extortion case filed against a sergeant of Motijheel traffic (East Zone).

Three people sustain burn injuries after a local Awami League activist allegedly hurled hot water at them for not getting extortion money in Old Dhaka.

Two people are shot dead allegedly by extortionists in Bhagdi area of Narsingdi.

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday detained one of its members and four others for allegedly extorting money from a man at Sonargaon in Narayanganj.