Crime

Although courts in Bangladesh have delivered death penalty verdicts in numerous cases involving women, no female convict has ever been executed in the country. Since independence, courts have sentenced over a hundred women to death. However, there is no record of any woman being executed so far....

What is life like at eight years old? It is an age of colorful dreams, wild running around, and tugging at a mother’s clothes. At that age, Ramisa used to play every day right in the courtyard of her own building. A familiar environment, familiar faces, a safe place. Yet, it was in that very familia...

In a brazen, film-style public shooting, the top reward-listed terrorist Khandaker Naim Ahmed Titon (55) was killed in the busy New Market area of the capital. Titon was a brother-in-law of another notorious criminal, Sanjidul Islam Emon. This underworld-shaking murder occurred on Tuesday evening, l...

One of the notorious criminals of the city, Khandaker Nayeem Ahmed Teton, also a listed top terrorist, was shot to death by miscreants. He was the brother-in-law of another top terrorist, Sanjidul Islam Emon.The fatal attack took place around 8:00 PM on Tuesday (April 28) near a banyan tree in...