It is unfortunate that security agencies have been used in a manner that has generated more fear in people’s mind than confidence and faith in them.

Visiting US Assistant Secretary Donald Lu yesterday expressed satisfaction that Rab reduced extrajudicial killings since late 2021, when the US imposed sanctions on the force.

In response to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent comment that it was the US that created and trained Rapid Action Battalion, the US State Department said it had ended assistance to the Rab in 2018 based on credible information of gross human rights violations.

A man, Nurul Afsar Hawladar, who was picked up from Uttara on September 22 allegedly by Rab, was shown arrested in Cox's Bazar yesterday (October 9, 2022).

The Rab unit, whose members allegedly framed eight Mirpur teenagers for extortion, has now taken over the charge of investigation from Pallabi police.

Four years ago, some plainclothesmen picked up Mohon Mia from his Mirpur house. He has never returned home again. His father Jamsher Ali, a trader, has long insisted he has proof that Rab-4 members took his elder son away without giving any reason.

Bizarre turn of events shows citizens' vulnerability to power abuse

Prime Minister sheikh Hasina today came down heavily on the USA for imposing sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion and some of its officials, terming it an “abominable move”.

Bangladesh has said Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is facing difficulties in conducting its operations due to US-imposed sanctions and this might encourage radical elements in the country and make the law-and-order situation worse and create regional instability.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested the prime accused in a case filed for raping a pregnant woman in Ashulia in July of this year.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a union parishad member for allegedly raping a girl in Joypurhat early today.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has pressed charges against Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed and its Managing Director Masud Parvez in a case filed over possessing fake notes of Tk 1.14 lakh in July this year.

Rab today arrested a man from Dhaka's Shah Ali area on charge of deceiving people with fake visas of different countries, luring them with jobs overseas.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion has fined Advanced Chemical Industries (ACI) Ltd Tk 1 crore for using harmful methanol in its Savlon-branded hand sanitiser.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members today claimed to have arrested 10 members of a fraud gang for allegedly swindling a large sum of money from people in the name of providing government jobs.

Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a man along with 29 turtles from a bus on Patuakhali-Kuakata highway in Patuakhali last night.

Rab claimed to have arrested four alleged members of banned militant group Ansar al Islam from Dhaka’s Darussalam area last night.

Rapid Action Battalion today claimed to have seized 13 lakh pieces of yaba and arrested two Rohingyas from the Bay of Bengal in Cox’s Bazar.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have arrested six suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Savar early today.

An alleged drug peddler has been killed in a "shootout" with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Gazipur's Tongi upazila.