Crime & Corruption

Behind Apratim’s killing: An iPhone, a Tk 5,000 debt and an ‘unequal friendship’

TDS Desk: Police initially believed that 13-year-old Ishayat Shahriar Apratim had been lured away and killed simply to steal an iPhone. But as the investigation progressed, other details emerged: resentment

MP Nazrul placed on 4-day remand over Mariam’s death

TDS Desk: Police have been granted four days to question lawmaker Gazi Nazrul Islam in custody in a case over the alleged abetment of his second wife Mariam Khatun’s suicide.

MP’s uncle, so-called PS arrested over attack on journo in Kushtia

Kushtia Correspondent: Police have arrested two individuals in connection with an attack on journalist Mahbubul Ahsan Ullas, who was targeted while gathering information on road construction irregularities in Kumarkhali in

Noakhali OC withdrawn after allegedly attending feast at AL leader’s home

Noakhali Correspondent: Md Abdur Rahim Sarkar, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Senbagh Police Station in Noakhali has been withdrawn from his post and attached to the district police lines on charge of

Apratim beaten to death over iPhone: Cumilla SP

Cumilla Correspondent: Police have claimed that 13-year-old Ishayat Shahriar Apratim was beaten to death in Cumilla over an iPhone. Apratim, the only son of Dr Nahida Begum, a teacher at

10-year-old’s rape and Murder: Mob demolishes suspect’s home in Pabna

Pabna Correspondent: A mob angered by the rape and murder of a ten-year-old girl demolished the multi-story residence of the primary suspect, Mostafa Pramanik, in Pabna Sadar upazila on Friday