61pc fatal DNCC road accident victims in 2023 pedestrians: report
About 61 per cent of all fatal victims in road crashes occurred in the Dhaka North City Corporation areas in 2023 were pedestrians, said a report published on Wednesday...
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ASHULIA KILLINGS: ICT sends 3 ex-police officers to jail
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday sent three former police officials to jail in a genocide and crimes against humanity case lodged over the killing of six youths during the July-August mass uprising and subsequently torching their bodies to conceal the evidence...
Rangamati addl SP in custody following ICT warrant
The police on Sunday took the Rangamati district additional superintendent of police for traffic, Anirban Chowdhury, in custody immediately after the issuance of an arrest warrant against him by the International Crimes Tribunal...
Govt to send 52 uprising victims to Turkey, Pakistan
Health and family welfare adviser Nurjahan Begum on Sunday said that they were working to send 21 injured in the July mass uprising to Turkey and 31 to Pakistan for advanced treatment...
ICT-BD orders additional SP鈥檚 appearance to face interrogators
An additional police superintendent stationed in Rangamati has been brought under the police custody to be produced before Bangladesh鈥檚 International Crimes Tribunal investigators in line with the tribunal鈥檚 order.
Probe report of 4 July-Aug crimes against humanity cases to be submitted soon
The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal is all set to submit probe reports in four crimes against humanity cases filed over the monstrous crimes committed during the July-August mass uprising.
4 officers withdrawn as JCD leader snatched from police
The Natore district police on Wednesday withdrew four police officials, including officer-in-charge Nazmul Haque, from the Lalpur police station over the incident of snatching a leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the youth front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, from the police station by fellow leaders and activists Tuesday afternoon...
China urges citizens to avoid war zones
China on Wednesday urged its citizens to avoid conflict zones and participating in wars, after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said his troops had captured two Chinese citizens fighting with Russia...
ICT orders completing investigation in Abu Sayed murder case in two months
The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday asked the Investigation Agency to complete its probe into crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising in Rangpur in Two months...
Global investors see scopes, seek policy predictability
Global investors have described Bangladesh as a land of opportunities, but they have said that the government should ensure policy predictability in order to retain the investors鈥� confidence...
Ex-ICT prosecutor Tureen Afroz placed on 4-day remand
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday placed former International Crimes Tribunal prosecutor Tureen Afroz on four-day remand in police custody on allegation of attempted聽 murder of one Abdul Jabbar during the student-led mass uprising...
Ex-ICT prosecutor Tureen Afroz arrested
Dhaka Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner for media and public relations Muhammad Talebur Rahman said that Turin Afroz was arrested by Uttara West police station officers at about 11:00pm on Monday鈥�
DU to reintroduce vehicle restrictions at entry points from today
The University of Dhaka authorities have again decided to restrict vehicular movement at seven entry points on the university campus from today...
Graft enquiries surge but conviction rate drops
The Anti-Corruption Commission launched a record number of enquiries, 1,894, into corruption allegations against different graft suspects in 2024, far higher than 845 enquiries done in the previous year...
Time bombs found in Aynaghar torture cells: Tajul
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam on Sunday alleged that investigators uncovered three secret Aynaghar torture cells hidden within Joint Force Investigation Cell, where underground chambers had been sealed off behind walls.
Prosecution finds evidence of conspiracy to thwart trial of July-Aug massacre: Tajul
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Thursday said that the prosecution found evidences of conspiracy to thwart the trial of the July-August massacre...
Rally honours martyred Palestinian children
Drik Picture Library organised a solidarity rally on Monday at Rabindra Sarobar in Dhanmondi of Dhaka in memory of the martyred children of Palestine...
REMEMBERING SLAVERY: Confronting past, resisting present
EACH year, on March 25, the world pauses to observe International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, an occasion that commemorates one of the most brutal and dehumanising chapters in history. This remembrance is not merely symbolic. It is a moral imperative, a call to reflect on a legacy that still ripples through our...
18 trapped in Myanmar scam centre return
Eighteen Bangladeshi human trafficking victims returned home from Myanmar early Wednesday...
Police must abandon violence, harassment for crowd control
DESPITE support and care from authorities, particularly the healthcare providers, the eight-year-old rape victim from Magura lost the battle for life in Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka on March 13 while anti-rape protests raged. Four accused in this case are arrested and the law minister assured a speedy trial of the case but the movement against rape continued as the...
鈥楯aiJai Din鈥� declaration revoked
The declaration of the daily 鈥楯aiJai Din鈥� has been revoked by the office of the Dhaka district magistrate and deputy commissioner following an application by its former editor Shafik Rehman, sparking protests from the newspaper鈥檚 current management and journalists...
Three get life in prison for raping teenage girl
A Dhaka court on Wednesday convicted three men and sentenced them to life term in jail in a case filed over the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Kamrangirchar area of Dhaka...
Govt needs to make roads pedestrian-friendly
THAT pedestrians continue to constitute the largest group of road accident victims warrants special attention and specific measures are needed to protect them. In February, at least 114 pedestrians died in road accidents. In a road accident on March 10, a pedestrian died and another was seriously injured when a covered van ran over them at Banani in Dhaka. Both of them...
DNCC asks for rent from occupiers during eviction drive
Dhaka North City Corporation administrator Mohammad Azaz asked illegal land grabbers to pay rent during an eviction drive in the Beribandh area of Gabtoli in the capital on Wednesday...
Blaming victims, shielding mob
THE March 3 protest at Lalmatia that Bangladesh Against Rape and Harassment held was not just a response to a single event but the culmination of growing disappointment with the government鈥檚 failure to protect women from escalating violence. The demonstrators, predominantly woman activists and concerned citizens, burnt an effigy of the home affairs adviser...
Shifting geopolitical landscape and Bangladesh
RECENTLY, the global geopolitical landscape has undergone rapid changes. The war in Ukraine, followed by the Israel-Palestine conflict and the rise of right-wing governments across various European nations, has significantly altered the world鈥檚 political dynamics. Additionally, the removal of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh has introduced...
Cumilla Victoria College principal attacked
The principal of Cumilla Victoria Government College, Professor Mohammad Abul Bashar Bhuiyan, along with several other teachers, was injured during an incident between two groups over the firing of an imam at the mosque of college on Friday...
Afsana Begum brings two new literary works
Fiction writer Afsana Begum has brought two new literary works at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair...
Allowance for uprising victims likely from March
The interim government on Thursday announced that the government was likely to start from March the distribution of monthly allowance for the victims of July mass uprising...
Govt medical college interns鈥� strike to continue for 2 more days
Protesting interns and students of public medical colleges and hospitals on Tuesday said that they would continue their work abstention programme along with boycotting the academic activities for the next 48 hours till Thursday late night, pressing for a number of demands...