Dhaka, April 7 (IANS) Bangladeshi police on Tuesday arrested senior Awami League leader and former Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the country’s first woman to hold the post, according to local media reports.Confirming the development, Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Media) NM Nasiruddin said she was taken into custody from her residence in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi early Tuesday morning.Addressing the journalists, Nasiruddin said that Chaudhury is currently undergoing…
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Dhaka, Feb 24 (IANS) Several journalists, Dhaka University (DU) students and one police personnel were injured during an “anti-drug” operation at Suhrawardy Udyan, local media reported on Tuesday.The operation on Monday evening was conducted by Ramna Zone of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), during which seven to eight people were detained, and around 60 to 70 police personnel were deployed, according to DMP Ramna Zone Deputy Commissioner (DC) Masud.”We didn’t arrest that many today — the po…
Dhaka, Feb 6 (IANS) Bangladesh’s interim government led by Muhammad Yunus has decided to seek a probe by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights into the killing of radical platform Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.The announcement was made in a social media post by Shafiqul Alam, the Press Secretary to Bangladesh’s Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus.The move comes after Inqilab Moncha staged a sit-in outside the Chief Advisor’s official residence, Jamuna, …
Dhaka, Jan 8 (IANS) In yet another case highlighting the out of control law and order situation in Bangladesh, a Jatiyatabadi Swechasebak Dal leader was shot dead by gunmen in Dhaka Wednesday night, the police officials confirmed on Thursday. Azizur Rahman Mosabbir, a Joint Convener of the Swechasebak Dal’s Dhaka North unit, was reportedly having tea with a party colleague at a stall behind the Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in the Karwan Bazar area when several assailants arrived on motorcycles…
Dhaka, Jan 7 (IANS) Bangladesh police said the killing of Islamist student leader Sharif Osman Hadi was a “politically motivated murder”, with investigators claiming that the conspiracy behind the attack was planned in Singapore.The Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMP) Detective Branch has filed a chargesheet against 17 individuals in connection with the case before a metropolitan court in Dhaka.According to police, the murder was carried out on the instructions of former Mirpur councillor Taizul…
Dhaka, Jan 6 (IANS) The surge in mob violence across Bangladesh has emerged as a dreaded new form of killing, described by many as a “murderous monster” that ceases only with the victim’s death. The rage of the mob resembles a runaway locomotive that destroys everything in its path, a report said on Tuesday. Writing for ‘Times of Bangladesh’, Dhaka-based author and senior journalist Shahnoor Wahid said, “Murder or homicide has become a favourite sport in Bangladesh. Yes, I prefer to call it a …
Dhaka, Jan 4 (IANS) The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed a ban on all types of public gatherings in key areas in Bangladesh’s capital, including near the Secretariat and Jamuna, the official residence of Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, local media reported on Sunday. According to the notice issued by DMP Commissioner Sheikh Md Sazzat Ali, the restriction, which takes effect from Sunday itself, has been implemented under Section 29 of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance, 1976, citing…
Dhaka, Dec 28 (IANS) Six convicted militants who escaped from prison during the July-August 2024 upheaval remain at large while 18 firearms looted from damaged prisons have not been found yet. At the same time, nearly 200 inmates held on charges related to militancy have been released on bail during the past eight months, with no latest information about their whereabouts, a report said, citing official sources. A report in Times of Bangladesh stated, “These developments have raised renewed conc…
Shillong, Dec 28 (IANS) Meghalaya Police and the Border Security Force (BSF) on Sunday categorically denied reports claiming that two accused in the murder of Sharif Osman Hadi (32), a spokesperson of the Inqilab Mancha group, had fled from Bangladesh into India and were arrested in the northeastern state.Meghalaya Director General of Police (DGP) Idashisha Nongrang told IANS that no accused had been arrested by the state police in connection with the murder of Osman Hadi.Another senior Meghalay…
Dhaka, Dec 25 (IANS) Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) acting chairman, Tarique Rahman, arrived in Dhaka on Thursday after 17 years of self-imposed exile amid the deepening political crisis in the nation.Rahman landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, accompanied by his wife Zubaida Rahman and daughter Zaima Rahman.He was warmly received by BNP leaders, which included Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, members of the party’s S…