IN A country where electricity flickers, the price of essentials keeps flirting with the absurd and the news cycle changes faster than the weather, who really has the luxury of waiting for courtrooms, lawyers and the ponderous machinery of law? Yes, it is Bangladesh, where mob lynching appears to have emerged as the fastest-growing sector of our informal justice system...
Police in Northern Ireland on Wednesday condemned 鈥榙isgraceful鈥� scenes of violence on a town鈥檚 streets after a second night of rioting targeting foreigners in which 17 officers were injured...
The Association of Mobile Telecom Operators in Bangladesh welcomed the proposed national budget for the financial year 2025-26, which was placed by the interim government on Monday...
A woman faced harrasment on Tuesday when she protested against her photos taken without permission on Green Road in the capital.
The use of the Mobile Financial Services is increasing for money laundering, bribery, online gambling, cryptocurrency transactions and even terror financing and other illegal purposes, a Transparency International Bangladesh study has suggested...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has adopted a 鈥榸ero-tolerance鈥� policy against mob violence in the capital, said deputy commissioner of Ramna Division Masud Alam on Wednesday...
Mobile financial services provider bKash is offering discount and cashback offers of up to Tk 6,000 on online and in-store shopping on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, said a press release...
The interim government on Sunday decided to form an independent board to run mobile financial service provider Nagad following mounting concerns over alleged irregularities, unauthorised control and institutional overreach in the MFS provider, officials said.
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Daily transactions of Nagad, a leading mobile financial service provider in Bangladesh, have increased by around Tk 100 crore on average, following the Postal Department taking on the responsibility to oversee its operations...
The government would take necessary measures if mobile operators fail to reduce internet prices, said Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, special assistant on posts, telecommunications and ICT affairs to the chief adviser, on Thursday...
Civil surgeons on Monday demanded that they should be given the authority to operate mobile courts against fake doctors and middlemen in the health sector...
An imam of a mosque in Gazipur鈥檚 Pubail area died in jail custody early Monday, hours after he was beaten by an angry mob on Sunday allegedly for raping several boys...
The Bangladesh Bank on Thursday allowed mobile operators to collect payments in the local currency taka for roaming services used by resident Bangladeshi travelers...
Samsung has secured top spot among the smartphone manufacturers, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker...
Tejgaon Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police recovered 251 mobile phones of different brands which were lost, stolen and robbed at different times and returned those to their legal owners.
Two people were killed in a mob beating in the Sylheti Bazar area of Kamrangirchar in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday.
A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide after being resisted from using mobile phone by her mother in Sylhet on Sunday...
The Bangladesh Bank on Thursday raised transaction limits for mobile financial services such as bKash, Rocket and Nagad, allowing customers to conduct larger transactions and maintain higher account balances...
At least one man was killed and two others were seriously injured after a mob beat three suspected muggers at Swarighat in the capital鈥檚 Chawk Bazar area early Friday.
The production of mobile phones in Bangladesh saw a significant decline in February, dropping to 13.88 lakh units from that of 18.19 lakh units in January, marking a drop of 4.31 lakh units, according to the latest data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission...
The number of mobile subscribers in Bangladesh decreased by 77 lakh from July 2024 to January 2025, while the number of mobile internet users declined by 1.1 crore during this period, according to data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission...
THE term 鈥榤ob justice鈥� has recently been widely discussed. It refers to a situation when a chaotic mob ignores the law or the judicial system, uses force and takes the law into its own hands to try the accused. It refers to the punishment of a person by an angry or chaotic mob without the intervention of the legal system or the law enforcement agencies. The recent...
Since the downfall of the former autocratic regime on August 5, 2024, law and order in Bangladesh have been in a state of decline, marked by increasing instability. In the months that followed, mob violence, extortion, and the rise of unruly factions became prevalent. The police force, once aligned with the...
Information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam on Sunday said that the interim government had decided that from now on it would get tough with all kinds of mob attacks in the country.
A mobile court sentenced a youth to six months鈥� imprisonment on charge of stalking a schoolgirl at Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj on Saturday noon.
At least three recent incidents in which a mob that called itself 鈥楾owhidi janata鈥� and exerted pressure on law enforcement agencies to release detainees and held protests in front of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star newspapers appear to have been coordinated acts.
At least 119 people were killed in 144 mob beating incidents across the country in the past seven months...
A case was filed with the Vatara police station on Wednesday following a mob attack on two Iranians in the Basundhara residential area in the capital Dhaka in the previous day...
A mob allegedly beat three people and torched a motorcycle suspecting them to be robbers at Golabganj upazila in Sylhet early Wednesday...