Friday, December 18th, 2009Dhaka Metropolitan Police wants to bring around 600 more intersections in the capital under the automated traffic signal system and make all existing signal lights operative to further improve traffic situation.DMP Commissioner AKM Shahidul Hoque said in a meeting yesterday that the authorities also agreed to demarcate lanes on almost all roads in Dhaka city and bring all intersections under the automated signalling system in phases.The traffic situation in the city has already seen some improvement after lanes were marked on three major roads and the automated signalling system was introduced. But it is the strict enforcement of the traffic ...
(read more) Saturday, May 12th, 2007Evidential materials worth crores of taka seized by police in connection with various cases and kept under supervision of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court, Dhaka, are getting damaged causing huge losses to the government as well as their owners.One can always find around 60 motorbikes along with some cars on one side and a number of other vehicles on another side of the premises of the CMM's Court in old part of the capital.Dumped there for years under the open sky, many of these vehicles including CNG-run autorickshaws, taxicabs, pick-ups, rickshaw vans and rickshaws not only got rusted but ...
(read more) Wednesday, February 21st, 2007With the clock striking a minute past midnight, thousands of barefooted people from all walks of life paid homage to the language martyrs who made the supreme sacrifice on this day 55 years ago to uphold the dignity of mother tongue.People in queues thronged the shaheed minars across the country singing in chorus the elegiac Amar Bhaiyer Rokte Rangano Ekushey February.President Iajuddin Ahmed led the nation in paying tribute to the language martyrs by placing a wreath at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, the centrepiece venue for February 21 observance, at 12:01am today.On this day in 1952, students and ...
(read more) Thursday, February 15th, 2007The caretaker (CG) government yesterday decided to review the cases of those detained on suspicion and charges of petty crimes and to release them gradually from crammed jails.It directed the law enforcers to arrest the persons behind encroachment on government lands and building of big slums.The advisory committee on law and order once again asked them to hunt professional and big criminals and the corrupts, instead of just going for the accused in different casesThe committee, at its second meeting yesterday, also decided not to allow any political rally, gathering or meeting in any auditorium, community centre or hall taking ...
(read more) Saturday, February 10th, 2007Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authorities yesterday appointed 16 inspectors as officers-in-charge (OCs) of 16 police stations and transferred an OC to the Detective and Crime Intelligence unit of the DMP. The newly appointed officers-in-charge (Ocs) are Altaf Hossain of Uttara Police Station (PS), Mohiuddin Mahmud of Uttarkhan PS, Shahidul Islam of Dakkhinkhan PS, Iqbal Hossain of Turag PS, Obaidul Haque of Gulshan PS, Shahrum Khan of Cantonment PS, Syed Ziauddin of Khilkhet PS, ABM Golam Kibria of Newmarket PS, Monwar Hossain of Dhanmondi PS, Moyeen Uddin Khan of Kamrangirchar PS, Abul Hossain Morol of Motijheel PS, Abdul Awal of Paltan ...
(read more) Friday, February 2nd, 2007Tarique Rahman's business partner Giasuddin Al-Mamun was arrested in the capital sometime Wednesday, laying to rest week-long rumours surrounding the high-profile capture. An intelligence official requesting not to be named told The Daily Star last night that Mamun was picked up from the city's Paltan area.Meanwhile, the joint forces did not release Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina's Assistant Personal Secretary Dr Awlad Hossain who was hauled in on Wednesday night along with two others from Dhanmondi area.Sources said the security forces held one Russell when he went to draw Tk 25 lakh from a bank in Motijheel. Later, following ...
(read more) Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Top echelons of the police administration saw a massive reshuffle last night as the caretaker government made changes to 20 top positions including inspector general of police (IGP) and commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).Meanwhile, several key positions in the army were also reshuffled.Director General (DG) of Special Security Force (SSF) Major General Syed Fatemi Ahmed Rumi was made general officer commanding (GOC) of 66 Infantry Division while GOC of 11 Infantry Division Major General Sheikh Md Manirul Islam was made the new DG of SSF, according to the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR). Bangladesh Military Academy (BMA) Commandant ...
(read more) Saturday, January 27th, 2007Several thousand offices, clubs and makeshift election camps constructed illegally across the capital under the banner of political parties still remain intact despite allegations that those are breeding grounds for crime.Law enforcers have knocked down illegal roadside shops and structures during their ongoing eviction drive, but they overlooked such clubs and camps constructed on sidewalks, by the sides of roads and on open spaces not designated for them, sources said.Clubs and camps under political parties' banners mushroomed across the city in the run-up to the cancelled national elections slated for January 22. These structures have seriously impeded pedestrians and vehicles. ...
(read more) Sunday, January 21st, 2007Policemen coming from Gopalganj, the birthplace of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and belonging to a certain religion had become pariahs in the police administration in the last five years of the BNP-led four-party alliance government.Throughout the tenure, they had been deprived either of promotions or better postings. Worse still, the differential treatment continues even now--during the caretaker government.Analysing track records of the Hindu and Gopalganj-born officers of the superintendent of police (SP) rank and above, The Daily Star found that the immediate past government had posted those mostly to places of little significance.All too often the officers had ...
(read more) Wednesday, January 10th, 2007Five top leaders of the Awami League (AL)-led grand alliance were injured as police assaulted them while using brute force to disperse alliance activists and leaders from around the Bangabhaban during a siege of it yesterday that triggered violent clashes between the law enforcers and the demonstrators.Policemen in riot gear brutally assaulted the leaders at Noor Hossain Square and fired teargas shells inside the AL central office on Bangabandhu Avenue during the siege that was also marked by police-demonstrators pitched battles in Fakirerpool and Joykali temple area.The leaders -- Tofail Ahmed, Rashed Khan Menon, Nurul Islam, Dilip Barua and Haji ...
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