BGB arrests ex-Ctg MP Fazle Karim, 2 others at border
Border Guard Bangladesh arrested three people, including former Awami League lawmaker ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury, from Brahmanbaria鈥檚 Akhaura border early Thursday.
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Ex-DMP commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia arrested
Members of Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday night arrested former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Asaduzzam脿n Mia at Mohakhali in the capital.
Hasina鈥檚 adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi arrested
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was arrested in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area on Tuesday night.
RAB arrests fugitive condemned convict
Members of Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday arrested a fugitive death row convict, who escaped from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur over a month ago, at a residential hotel in Kodda area of Gazipur city...
Lebanon judge orders arrest of ex-central bank chief
A Lebanese judge Monday issued an arrest warrant for ex-central bank chief Riad Salameh, a judicial official said, after the embattled former governor was questioned in an embezzlement case...
Two women arrested with 24 gold bars at Dhaka airport
Customs Intelligence officials arrested two women along with 24 gold bars, weighing 2,784 grams, at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Monday....
Inu arrested, ex-MP Golap on remand
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president and former information minister of Awami League government, Hasanul Haq Inu, was arrested on Monday at Uttara in Bangladesh capital Dhaka.
Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik detained
Border Guard Bangladesh on Friday night detained former Supreme Court judge, Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, from a bordering area in Bangladesh....
Ex-chief whip Feroz on 7-day remand, Ex-AL MP Sadek Khan arrested
A Dhaka Court on Saturday placed former chief whip and six-time Awami League lawmaker ASM Feroz on seven-day remand in a murder case while police on the day...
Rashed Khan Menon arrested
The Workers Party of Bangladesh president and former minister of the Awami League-led government Rashed Khan Menon on Thursday was arrested in a murder case filed with the New Market police station on August 21...
Ex-MP Ahmed, ex-Rear Admiral of Bangladesh Navy Sohail on remand
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday placed Awami League organising secretary and former lawmaker Ahmed Hossain, and former chairman of the Chittagong Port Authority retired Rear Admiral Mohammad Sohail on four-day remand in a case filed over the murder of grocery store owner Nabiul Talukdar in Paltan...
Former AL lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi arrested
A team of the Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday arrested a former Awami League lawmaker from Cox鈥檚 Bazar-4 constituency, Abdur Rahman Bodi, at a location in GEC area in Chattogram...
Former deputy minister Arif Khan Joy arrested
Police on Monday arrested former deputy minister for sports affairsj, Arif Khan Joy....
Salman F Rahman, Anisul Huq arrested
Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq were arrested at Dhaka River Port at...
Two Myanmar nationals arrested with 29.15 kg gold in Cox鈥檚 Bazar
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh have arrested two Myanmar citizens along with 29.15 kgs of gold ornaments worth Tk 28.75 crore at a house at Hinla under Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar district.....
Nigeria arrests 7 Poles in protests
Nigerian security forces have arrested seven Polish nationals accused of playing a 鈥榮uspicious role鈥� in protests against government policies and economic hardship, the national security agency said on Thursday...
48 HSC examinees get bail
Two Dhaka courts on Friday granted bail to 42 Higher Secondary Certificate examinees who were arrested in connection with cases filed on charges of violence and...
Cultural activists perform in street joining protests聽
Ganahatya O Nipiran Birodhi Shilpi Samaj, a platform for cultural activists, made a three-point demand expressing its solidarity with the ongoing quota reform movement and...
People in fear as arrest drives on
Police continued the countrywide arrest drives as at least 150 more people were arrested on Wednesday in connection with cases filed on charges of violence during the student protests against the quota system in the civil service...
72 citizens condemn wholesale arrests, torture in remand
Seventy two eminent citizens in a statement on Tuesday strongly condemned the wholesale arrests of students via block raids and the reported torture under the guise of remand following the countrywide student protests...
Father dies of heart attack after police arrest son
A man died of a heart attack a few minutes after the police arrested his son on Tuesday...
Student protests spread to diverse communities
A cross-section of people, including teachers, parents, civil society members, and cultural organisations, have joined the students in expressing solidarity with their demand to ensure justice for...
University Teachers Network calls for end to 鈥榮tudent harassment鈥�
Teachers from various universities across Bangladesh, united under the banner of 鈥楢nti-Repression Teachers Rally,鈥� have called for an immediate end to the harassment of students as well as 鈥榤ass arrests.鈥�
Repression and propaganda
THE wholesale arrest of dozens of students and hundreds of leaders, activists and supporters of opposition parties in cases filed in connection with violence and vandalism during the student protests for reforms in government job quota is another misstep of the government, the like of which forced a peaceful protest into a violent one...
Court guidelines left in lurch in arrest, detention and remand
THE breach of Supreme Court guidelines in the wholesale arrest of citizens suspected of being involved in the violence born out of the student protests that have sought reforms in civil service job reservations is unacceptable. While it is worrying that law enforcement agencies keep largely ignoring the Appellate Division鈥檚 10-point guidelines of May 2016...
SC guidelines largely ignored in wholesale arrests, remand
Law enforcement agencies are largely ignoring the Supreme Court guidelines while making blanket arrests of citizens on suspicion of their involvement in violence during the recent student protests...
End to wholesale arrest, harassment demanded
Demand for an immediate end to wholesale arrest and harassment continued to pour in from different quarters.
Journalist arrested, put on 5-day remand
Sayed Khan, organising secretary of Dhaka Journalist Union and the Dhaka correspondent of The Mirror Asia, was put on five-day remand on Friday after he was picked up by a...
Wholesale arrests, night-time block raids continue across Bangladesh
Law enforcement agencies have continued arrests, and night-time block raids in many areas of Dhaka and other places across the country as part of their special drive against...