Zia Chowdhury

Zia Chowdhury is a Staff Correspondent at The Business Standard with a wealth of experience in reporting on human rights violations, law enforcement affairs, accidents, fires, and crimes. He can be reached at zianews24@gmail.com

An angry crowd held former chief election commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda in the capital’s Uttara area this evening (22 June). Photo: Focus Bangla

Bangladesh

Govt promises stern action against mob violence, but reality shows opposite

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus chairs a meeting with 127 senior police officials at the Chief Adviser's Office in the capital’s Tejgaon on 17 March 2025. Photo: CA Press Wing

Law & order

Mob, pressure from political parties obstructing police from carrying out duties: Police to CA

Crime

Top listed criminals ‘Pichchi’ Helal, Titon abscond after bail

Bangladesh

BDR massacre: Retired Lt Col Akramuzzaman recalls 36 breath-stopping hours

Senior army officers solemnly carry the remains of their comrades, martyred in the Pilkhana massacre on the 25th and 26th of February 2009, to their final resting places. Amidst the mournings of grieving families, the brave officers were laid to rest, forever imprinted in the nation’s memory as symbols of sacrifice and loss. The photo was taken at Banani Military Cemetery on 2nd March, 2009. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

Bangladesh

'Injustice done in the name of justice'

Crime

Crime surges amid inaction of the law enforcers

Sagar Sarwar, news editor of Massranga Television, and Meherun Runi, senior reporter of ATN Bangla, were killed on the night of 11 February 2012, in a rented house in West Rajabazar of the capital. File Photo: Collected

Crime

Sagar-Runi murder case: 13 years on, PBI hunts for grill-cutting burglars

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. File photo: Collected

Politics

The vanishing power players: Where are Hasina’s men now?

Bangladesh

Home ministry bins police report claiming 'terrorists' killed Yamin during July protests

A screenshot of an image with its metadata shows Anik Ahmed Ridoy (marked in white frame), a DIU student, in Sajek Valley, Khagrachhari on 9 January 2025. He has been jailed over an attempted abduction that took place on that day in Gaibandha. Photo: TBS

Crime

Student jailed on abduction charges despite contradictory evidence

Representational image. Photo: Collected

Bangladesh

Five sent to jail over death of rickshaw puller 'denied treatment' during uprising

Bangladesh

Rickshaw puller's death in uprising: Ghost case adds to distress of widow

A 7-member committee was formed to investigate the fire at the secretariat on 26 December. Photo: TBS

Bangladesh