NO DECISIVE progress in the unresolved murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi, found dead in their rented flat at Pashchim Rajabazar in Dhaka on February 11, 2012, is worrying given that the interim government promised a credible investigation. Contrary to the promise, Dhaka magistrates court on January 27 extended the deadline for the...
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday set May 21 for filing a probe report in the case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, extending the deadline for the submission of the report for the 117th time...
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...
A Chattogram court on Sunday asked the police to officially show listed crime suspect Sajjad Hossain, also known as Chhoto Sajjad, arrested in a double murder case involving a car chase in the city...
ON MARCH 12, 2006, five United States soldiers from the 101st airborne division drank whiskey, plotted a massacre and descended on the home of聽Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl. They shot her father, mother and聽6-year-old sister聽execution-style. Then, as her baby sister鈥檚 body cooled on the floor, they took turns raping Abeer. When they were done...
FREQUENT murders, abduction and torture in Rohingya camps suggest that the persecuted community, already faced with an uncertain future, is additionally burdened with fear of violence. The Thailand-based rights group Fortify Rights on March 18 in its research findings on law and order in the camps in Cox鈥檚 Bazar reported at least 219 Rohingya murders in 2021鈥�2024 and...
Unidentified miscreants snatched the motorcycle of a teenager after hacking him to death at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet early Tuesday...
A Chattogram court has ordered interrogation of Chandan Das and Rajib Bhattacharya, both accused in the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif, at the jail gate...
The High Court on Sunday confirmed death sentences for 20 former leaders and activists of the Awami League-backed student body Bangladesh Chhatra League on the charge of murdering fellow student Abrar Fahad at a Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology hall in 2019.
A Magura court on Saturday recorded the confessional statement of the prime accused, Hitu Sheikh, over raping an eight-year-old girl on March 6 in the district...
A Rangpur court on Friday allowed the International Crimes Tribunal to seize the evidence of Abu Sayed murder case from the Police Bureau of Investigation, the investigation agency of the case.
The High Court On Wednesday granted bail to actress and ex-president of e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh Shomi Kaiser in an attempted murder case...
A Dhaka court on Sunday set April 15 for filing a probe report in the case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, extending the deadline for the submission of the report for 116th time.
Former judge of Supreme Court鈥檚 appellate division AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and retired rear admiral Mohammad Sohail have been interrogated in the journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi murder case...
The police have arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in the murder of 27-year-old Ariful Islam in Dakshinkhan...
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman broke down in tears in the High Court on Wednesday while seeking justice for Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Abrar Fahad, who was brutally murdered for expressing dissent against the then Awami League government...
A court in India鈥檚 western resort state of Goa sentenced a 31-year-old man to life in prison on Monday for raping and murdering an Irish tourist eight years ago...
Families of the victims of the February 25-26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday urged not to release death row and life term convicts in murder case without applying law properly...
A Chattogram court on Wednesday granted permission for a three-day jail gate interrogation of former Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Saiful Islam in the murder case of Hridoy Chandra Tarua, a university student killed during the student-led mass uprising...
THE unresolved murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi, found dead in their flat at Pashchim Rajabazar in Dhaka on February 11, 2012, is one of the many cases that have created a public perception that the legal system was working to protect partisan interests of the deposed Awami League regime. As the investigation agency failed to submit the...
February 11, 2025 marks 13 years since the brutal murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, yet law enforcement agencies have not been able to identify the motive behind the much-discussed crime...
Today marks the 13th anniversary of the brutal murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, with investigation agencies still struggling to identify the perpetrators and uncover the motive behind the killing...
A court in Sirajganj on Tuesday sent former Awami League lawmaker for Sirajganj-3, Md Abdul Aziz, to jail in a case of attempted murder during the July-August mass uprising, a day after he was arrested at the capital鈥檚 Kalabagan area Monday night...
A 13-year-old girl, abducted from Dhaka鈥檚 Dakshinkhan, was raped and murdered by five attackers who dumped her body in Hatirjheel, the police revealed on Monday after recovering her decomposed body...
THE tragic murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi on February 11, 2012, remain one of the darkest chapters in Bangladesh鈥檚 recent history. More than a decade later, the investigation into their deaths continues to drag on, with the submission of the probe report now postponed for the 115th time as of January 27, 2025. This...
THE unresolved murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi is one of the many cases that contributed to public perception that the legal system was working to protect partisan interests of the deposed Awami League government. The couple was found dead in their flat in Dhaka on February 11, 2012. As the investigation agency failed to...
A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to actress Pori Moni in a case lodged by businessman Nasir Uddin Mahmud on the charges of vandalising and threatening and assaulting him.
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Monday placed former state minister for disaster management and relief Enamur Rahman on a six-day remand in police custody in a murder case following his arrest Sunday night by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 detective branch...
The police on Friday night arrested former president of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League鈥檚 Satkhira district unit, Tanvir Hussain Suzan, and its former general secretary, Ehsanul Habib Ayon in connection with a murder case...
The rapist and murderer of an Indian doctor was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for a gruesome crime that sparked nationwide protests and widespread hospital strikes last year...