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
 

File photo of CMM Court, Dhaka/Collected
Court

Slow submission of probe reports allows accused to secure bail, court says

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Law & order

A year on, police still in recovery mode while army assists

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Bangladesh

OC blames mugging victim’s pricey phone; Police respond only after viral post

In the aftermath, anxious parents scrambled between the school and nearby hospitals, searching for their children. Photo: Mehedi Hasan/TBS
Milestone Tragedy

A school in ruins, young lives maimed as death rained from the sky: What the Milestone crash site looked like

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

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Crime

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

Armoured personnel carriers carrying army soldiers make their way to the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in Dhaka, 26 February 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
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'

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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?

Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

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