1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (826+ words) I wake up in the morning and open my phone. Facebook, YouTube, newspaper headlines – everywhere it’s the same news. “10 pieces of a woman’s body found in a sack in Adabor Police Station.” “A woman’s dead body found in Kashiani, Gopalganj....

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (356+ words) India and Bangladesh on Monday reaffirmed their commitment to advancing bilateral cooperation with a forward-looking outlook, stressing mutual trust and shared benefits as the basis for strengthening relations between the two neighbouring countries. The issue came up during a meeting…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (1460+ words) The most disturbing question in the Rangpur quadruple-murder investigation may no longer be simply who killed Ganapati Chakraborty, his wife Pritilata, daughter Agami and 12-year-old son Aayush. It is whether the police narrative that emerged immediately after the bodies were…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (669+ words) The Bangladesh Detective Branch, probing the sensational August 19 quadruple murder at Daspara in Rangpur city, recently obtained the sale deed for the land on which retired school teacher Ganapati Chakraborty had built a three-storeyed house slightly over four years ago....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (543+ words) A second woman has emerged as a shadowy figure in relation to the August 19 murder of the four-member Chakraborty family of Rangpur city’s Daspara/Mechhuapara neighbourhood even Bangladesh’s Detective Branch policemen continue to pursue dead-ends in the case. Another woman,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (419+ words) A senior Bangladesh Police officer who publicly read out on August 27 a Section 164 confessional statement made under provisions of the country’s Criminal Procedure Court can face disciplinary action, trigger contempt of court proceedings, and severely prejudice the fair trial rights…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (699+ words) In what appears to be a shocking case of police lapse, deliberate or otherwise, the Bangladesh Police team investigating the sensational August 19 Rangpur quadruple murder, did not send all the ligature material used in strangulating the victims to the forensic…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (563+ words) The spelling of Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman’s name appears to be undergoing a subtle but potentially significant change, with “Waqar-uz-Zaman” increasingly appearing in official and institutional references. At first glance, the difference may seem little more than a matter…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1596+ words) The material reportedly included a gamchha, ropes and strings. For a case in which strangulation is the established cause of death, the omission is potentially critical: the physical object allegedly responsible for producing the ligature marks is itself important medico-legal…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1161+ words) Bangladesh Police investigators in general and Detective Branch sleuths of Rangpur district in particular did not provide the ligature materials that were used by the men suspected to have killed four members of a Hindu family on or before August…...