Police arrested two people along with 35 kg hemp from Barishal-Dhaka Highway in Wazirpur upazila early Sunday.The arrestees are Manir Bepari, 48, resident of Uttarkul village of Banaripara upazila and Khorshed Alam, resident of Saldoba area of Gazipur….
Human Rights Watch has said Bangladesh authorities should investigate recent allegations of enforced disappearances and torture.“Bangladesh’s Detective Branch has previously been implicated in allegations of grave human rights abuses by local human rig…
A team of the police’s Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) has arrested a fugitive convicted member of the banned militant group Hizb ut-Tahrir from Dhaka’s Natun Bazar area of Vatara thana on early Friday.The arrestee was identified as Tamiz Ahmed Sabuj, 32, so…
Although coastal and freshwater wetlands – such as swamps, mangroves and marshes – contain 40 percent of all plant and animal species, many are polluted or degraded due to climate change and human development.On World Wetlands Day Thursday, the UN call…
The UN Special Rapporteur on discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members, Alice Cruz, will pay an official visit to Bangladesh from February 7 to 15.”The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, at its mo…
Police Thursday pressed charges against cricketer Al-Amin Hossain for torturing his wife Ishrat Jahan and demanding dowry.Inspector Md Sohel Rana of Mirpur Model Police Station, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to …
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested a war criminal and death-row convict Abdul Majid from Madaripur around four years after he was awarded capital punishment in 2019.The 80-year-old Majid is the son of Miraj Ali of Purba Moudam villag…
Israel’s West Bank settler population now makes up more than half a million people, a pro-settler group said Thursday, crossing a major threshold. Settler leaders predicted even faster population growth under Israel’s new ultranationalist government.Th…
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has angry unions to the left of him, anxious Conservative Party lawmakers to the right and, in the middle, millions of voters he must win over to avert electoral defeat.It’s a daunting situation for Sunak, who on Thursda…
A suicide bomber who killed 101 people at a mosque in northwest Pakistan this week had disguised himself in a police uniform and did not raise suspicion among guards, the provincial police chief said on Thursday.Moazzam Jah Ansari said the bomber had b…
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Wednesday claimed to have arrested 50 people on charges of selling and consuming banned drugs.Sources at the DMP headquarters said Detective Branch sleuths and local police conducted drives across the city in the past 24…
Parliamentarians from Southeast Asia have condemned the new Political Parties Registration Law passed by the Myanmar military junta as an assault on democracy, drafted by an illegitimate authority, and designed to favor its proxy party, the Union Soli…
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