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Rickshaw driver held over JU student’s death

Jahangirnagar University’s security officials handed over a battery-run rickshaw driver to police on Monday, following allegations of reckless driving that caused the death of a first-year student on November 19...

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Battery-run rickshaw drivers continue protests 

Several thousand battery-run rickshaw drivers on Sunday blocked several roads in the capital city pressing for their 12-point charter of demands that included allowing them to ply city roads...

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Drivers to stage demo in city today

Battery-run rickshaw drivers on Saturday announced to hold a sit-in programme in front of the National Press Club in the capital today for realising their demand to scrap the High Court’s November 19 order to stop plying of battery-run rickshaws on Dhaka city roads...

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Battery-run rickshaw drivers block city roads

Battery-run rickshaw drivers blocked several roads in the capital demanding access to the main roads of the city on Wednesday, a day after the High Court ordered a ban on battery-run rickshaws on Dhaka streets...

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22 kids among 31 rescued in Teknaf

Members of Rapid Action Battalion foiled a human trafficking bid and rescued 31 people, including 22 children, from the hilly area of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar early Monday while trafficking them to Malaysia.

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Limon sues Tarique Siddique, Ziaul Ahsan

Limon Hossain, a resident of Jhalakati who lost his leg after being shot by the Rapid Action Battalion, has filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal against nine individuals, including...

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An elite force under scrutiny

THE Rapid Action Battalion was formally established on March 26, 2004, under the Armed Police Battalion (Amendment) Act, 2003, as an elite law enforcement unit in Bangladesh, operating under...

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Mahidul replaces Jaker in 2nd Test squad

Uncapped middle order batter Mahidul Islam Ankon replaced Jaker Ali for the second Test against South Africa after the latter suffered a concussion while batting in the nets at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Sunday...

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Six put on remand over Mohammadpur robbery

A Dhaka court on Monday granted seven-day remand to six people arrested in connection with the organised robbery at Mohammadpur in the capital late at night wearing army and Rapid Action Battalion uniforms early Saturday...

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Harris, Trump seek advantage in knife-edge election battle

Kamala Harris and rival Donald Trump campaigned in battleground states Sunday seeking 11th-hour advantages in a deadlocked White House race, as new polling shows the vice president underperforming among some traditional Democratic voter demographics...

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Holistic approach needed to discipline city road regime

ENFORCEMENT failure lurks as the authorities meant to keep road regime disciplined have failed to keep unfit and unauthorised vehicles off the road. Unfit vehicles such as buses, trucks, pickups and privately owned cars continue to create chaos on the road in a few ways. Whilst unfit vehicles keep emitting black smoke, adding to the air pollution which often...

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RAB arrests ex-AL lawmaker Asaduzzaman

The Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Rajshahi-3 constituency Asaduzzaman Asad in Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Salam Murshedy sent to jail

A Dhaka court on Friday sent former Khulna-4 lawmaker Abdus Salam Murshedy to jail in a case lodged over the killing of garment worker Rubel during the recent student-led mass uprising.

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PCJSS demands judicial inquiry

The Parbatya Charrogram Janasamhati Samiti, a regional political party in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, on Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into the incidents of sectarian attacks in Khagrachari and Rangamati in September 18—20...

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Ex-MP Henry, husband arrested

A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Monday placed former lawmaker Sultan Mohammad Monsur Ahmed on a five-day remand in a case filed over the killing of a Juba Dal leader, Shamim Mia, in the capital’s Paltan area...

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