Crime & Corruption

Seven power transformers stolen from Jhenaidah cropland

Jhenaidah Correspondent: Seven rural electricity transformers were stolen overnight from an agricultural field in Jhenaidah, disrupting irrigation ahead of the boro season and leaving farmers fearing serious setbacks to cultivation.

Locked in and burned; 7-year-old dies in Lakshmipur arson attack

TDS Desk: A seven-year-old girl was burned to death in a deliberate arson attack on the house of a local BNP leader in Bhabaniganj of Lakshmipur’s Sadar upazila, turning a

Women tied to tree and tortured by land grabbers: Criticism grows

Barbaric, inhuman repression on Solonga women Staff Reporter: An incident of tying women to tree and torturing by land grabbers in Pashchim Mothurapur village under Solonga thana in Sirajganj district

Quader, six other AL leaders charged with crimes against humanity

TDS Desk: The prosecution has submitted formal charges to International Crimes Tribunal-2 against Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and six other leaders of the party and its affiliated bodies

RAB arrests parents of primary suspect in Osman Hadi shooting

TDS Desk: Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained the parents of Faisal Karim Masud, the primary suspect in the attempted assassination of Inquilab Mancha convenor Sharif Osman Bin Hadi.

Police arrest man over ‘attempted rape of child’ in Sirajganj

Staff Correspondent: Police in a raid on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly attempting to rape an 8-year-old child in Sirajganj town. The arrestee, 33-year-old Sabbir Hossain, is the son