Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) administrator Md Abdus Salam said Thursday that hawkers and shops will not be allowed to illegally occupy roads or footpaths, as authorities intensify efforts to clear public spaces in Bangladesh’s capital.
A Bangladeshi man was killed Monday in a landmine explosion inside Myanmar near the Bangladesh border in Bandarban, police said.
A Dhaka court on Monday ordered Nassa Group chairman Nazrul Islam Mazumder shown arrested in an attempted murder case stemming from the 2024 July Uprising.
A 65-year-old businessman was hacked to death in Sylhet’s Shahporan area early Monday, police said.
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) investigators have sought a seven-day remand of actor Ashraful Haque Don in a murder case involving legendary film star Salman Shah.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on Monday ordered journalists Shyamal Dutta, Mozammel Babu, and Farzana Rupa jailed after showing them arrested in a crimes against humanity case linked to July Uprising.
International Crimes Tribunal-1 sent Bangladesh Air Force wing commander Saifur Rahman Saif to jail after rejecting his bail request in a crimes against humanity case over the 2012 enforced disappearance of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader M. Ilias Ali.
Bangladesh’s prisons are holding more than twice their designed capacity, placing severe pressure on medical care, sanitation, staff, and inmates’ basic rights, two experts said in a discussion organized by The Daily Star.
Forced retirements, repeated transfers, and unresolved promotion disputes are fueling uncertainty inside Bangladesh’s police force as officers face pressure to improve law and order, The Daily Star reported.
Bodies of six Bangladeshis killed in a Kolkata hotel fire were returned home Saturday, including four members of the same Kushtia family, three days after the blaze.
