THE detention of five personnel of a law enforcement agency on charges of holding two young people to ransom is alarming. This appears more so in post July鈥揂ugust uprising. The Detective Branch personnel in Rajshahi picked up the two young people in a microbus on allegations of gambling and held them to a ransom of Tk 12 lakh. The victims were eventually...
The Bogura district police detained five members of the Detective Branch of the Rajshahi Metropolitan Police and another early Monday on charges of demanding ransom after abducting two youths...
A male and a female, workers of a non-governmental organisation were allegedly tied up and tortured after getting picked up by a group of stalkers after collecting loan instalments at Chandina in Cumilla on Monday...
Somali pirates who hijacked a Chinese fishing boat have demanded a ransom payment for the vessel and its 18 crew members, police and local officials said on Saturday...
The World Health Organization and some 50 countries issued a warning Friday at the United Nations about the rise of ransomware attacks against hospitals, with the United States specifically blaming Russia.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence handed down on two persons by a lower court in the case of killing of college-going student Ashikur Rahman Khan Apu and maiming his two brothers at Sutrapur in Dhaka in 2008...
Somali pirates freed hijacked Bangladesh-flagged cargo vessel MV Abdullah and its 23 crew early on Sunday after 32 days, reportedly on payment of...
KSRM Group, the owner of MV Abdullah, has claimed that the ship and its 23 crew members were safely released through negotiations with the pirates, using the experience of the 2011 hostage situation involving their ship 鈥楯ahan Moni鈥�.....