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Four suspects put on 3-day remand

A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed four accused on a three-day remand in a case filed over the murder of a man named Rahat Hossain Rabbi in the capital Dhaka on August 14...

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5 to die, 4 jailed till death in Dr Nitai murder case

A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced five people to death and another four to imprisonment till natural death in a case filed over the 2012 murder of National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital associate professor Narayan Chandra Nitai...

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BCL leader held for Mujib murder anniv event

The police arrested a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student organisation of the Awami League, at Bahadurpur under Sarsha upazila in Jashore, allegedly for arranging a programme to mark the death anniversary of the country’s founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...

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Case filed against husband, in-laws

A murder case has been filed with the Mirpur police against the husband and in-laws of a woman after her body was recovered from a house in Dhaka city on Thursday...

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Time for Dhaka to boldly take up India’s border ploys with Delhi

DELHI’S border ploys, which have been evident in the murder of Bangladeshis at the hand of India’s Border Security Force that have continued apace for years, appear to be taking an added dimension. Whilst a series of events of erecting barbed-wire and electric fences along the frontiers began with the direct involvement of Indian border guards in the final days of December...

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Murder of Anas al-Sharif

‘ASSASSINATION,’ wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, ‘is the extreme form of censorship’. Such extremism visited Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza City late on August 10. Resting in a tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, he was killed alongside Al Jazeera correspondent...

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No alternative to restoring law and order

THE interim government’s continued failure in restoring law and order is expressed in the fear of people living in Gazipur. In the first week of August, at least three people were murdered in the district, including the brutal murder of a journalist on August 7. Police recorded at least 104 murder incidents in the industrial district in January-July. In January-June, the Police...

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Adviser says charge sheet soon, protests continue

Home adviser retired lieutenant general Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday said that the government would submit the charge sheet in journalist Asaduzzaman Tuhin murder case as soon as possible...

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Two more suspects placed on remand

A Dhaka court on Saturday placed two more accused on a four-day remand in connection with the killing of Md Sohag, locally known as Lal Chand, near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital in the capital Dhaka...

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ICT to decide on framing charges against 30 on Aug 6

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Wednesday set August 6 to decide whether charges will be framed against 30 accused, including former Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur vice-chancellor Hasibur Rashid, over the murder of student Abu Sayeed during the July 16, 2024 protests...

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Reconstructing spaces of violence through counter-forensics

ABU Sayed, a student activist at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, was killed on July 16, 2024. The death became a flashpoint in what would grow into the July uprising. While the Awami League government, toppled in the uprising,  then claimed that Sayed had been killed with bricks and firearms by other protesters, video footage shared widely on social media...

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Ctg court rejects Chinmoy’s bail petitions

The Chattogram Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on Thursday rejected Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatan Jagran Jote spokesperson Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari’s bail petitions in five cases, including the case of killing lawyer Saiful Islam Alif...

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Ex-ASP Kafi remanded in BNP activist murder case

A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed former additional superintendent of police Abdullah Hil Kafi and former detective branch inspector Arafat Hossain on a two-day remand each in connection with the killing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist Mamun Khandaker in Ashulia during the July-August mass uprising...

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Charge hearing on July 28

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Tuesday set July 28 for hearing charges against Begum Rokeya University vice-chancellor Hasibur Rashid Bachchu and 29 others, accused in connection with a crimes against humanity case over killing of Abu Sayeed during 2024 July uprising...

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Another makes statement in court

Sajeeb Bepari, arrested in the case of killing the scrap trader Md Sohag on the Mitford Hospital premises has confessed responsibility of the murder and given a confessional statement...

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Sohag killed over business rivalry: DMP commissioner

Scrap trader Lal Chand alias Md Sohag was killed in Old Dhaka over business rivalry, not for any political motive, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali said on Wednesday...

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Prime suspect in Mitford murder arrested

Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali said on Wednesday that the killing of Md Sohag, locally known as Lal Chand, was primarily driven by ‘business rivalry.

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Another arrested for Mitford murder 

Another accused in the killing of Md Sohag, locally known as Lal Chand, near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital in the capital Dhaka was arrested from Bandar upazila in Narayanganj in the early hours of Tuesday.