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Police arrest four over killing of businessman in Ctg

The police in a drive arrested four people in connection with their alleged involvement in shooting a businessman after ambushing his private car at Madunaghat in Hathazari upazila, from different parts of Chattogram district on Wednesday.

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Implementation of verdict demanded

Different student organisations and political parties on Tuesday demanded the execution of the verdict in the case of killing Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Abrar Fahad and an end to foreign dominance in the country...

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Locals besiege DC office over AL leader’s bail

Local people, including the families of martyred during July uprising, on Monday besieged the office of Sherpur deputy commissioner, protesting bail granted to Awami League leader Chandan Kumar Pal in a murder case...

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Systematic murders committed in 41 dists during July uprising: IO

An investigation officer in a case of crimes against humanity against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two others on Tuesday testified that the law enforcement agencies and the then ruling party affiliates were involved in widespread, systematic and targeted killings in at least 41 districts across the country during the July uprising...

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DUCSU VP candidate Jalal gets bail in attempted murder case

An additional chief metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Thursday granted bail to Dhaka University Central Students’ Union vice president candidate Jalal Ahmed in a case filed over the alleged attempted murder of his roommate at Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall of the university...

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Murder, abduction, robbery still high

Murder, robbery, and abduction remain high, with only slight improvement in a few crime indicators over 13 months of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government.

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ICT begins trial in Abu Sayeed murder case

The deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina allegedly planned to execute student protesters of the July uprising, comparing them to war criminals known as ‘razakars’, according to a leaked phone call submitted to the International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Wednesday...

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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...