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Jan 21, 2025 | 
thedailystar.net | Rafiul Islam
Despite clear footage from last week showing a large group of people hitting indigenous students with cricket stumps, inflicting serious injuries, law enforcers have so far arrested only two men. Hours after the incident on January 15, two advisers to the interim government wrote on Facebook that the attackers would be arrested. The next day, the Chief Adviser's Press Wing, in a statement, said that the government had ordered an investigation into the attack.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Rafiul Islam
A section of complainants in cases filed after the August 5 political changeover are now extorting money from some of the accused, DMP Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali said yesterday. "A new trend has now emerged where complainants are calling the accused and demanding money, promising to remove their names from the cases or withdraw the cases," he said while talking to the executive committee of the Crime Reporters' Association of Bangladesh (CRAB) at his office.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Rafiul Islam
A section of complainants has filed cases accusing several hundred people after August 5 changeover and are now extorting money from the accused by promising to remove their names from the cases, DMP Commissioner Sheikh Md Sazzad Ali said today. Some police personnel are also involved in the illicit trade, he said while talking to the executive committee of the Crime Reporters' Association of Bangladesh at his office.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Rafiul Islam
People want a law-abiding and corruption-free police force, which will operate independently, without any political influence. The opinion has been reflected in a public survey titled "What Kind of Police Do We Want (Kemon Police Chai) " released by The Police Reform Commission today. The findings are now accessible on the commission's official website www.prc.mhapsd.gov.bd.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Rafiul Islam
People want a law-abiding and corruption-free police force, which will operate independently, without any political influence. The opinion has been reflected in a public survey titled "What Kind of Police Do We Want (Kemon Police Chai) " released by the Police Reform Commission today. The findings are now accessible on the commission's official website www.prc.mhapsd.gov.bd.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Shariful Islam |Rafiul Islam
The police may stop using lethal weapons and lead pellets for crowd control as their widespread use during the July mass uprising led to massive casualties and global criticism. The process is underway to make time-befitting regulations on the use of firearms, said Enamul Haque Sagor, assistant inspector general (media) at the Police Headquarters.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Rafiul Islam
Five-year-old Jisan joined his mother early this morning on a simple errand—to bring tea and breakfast from a nearby hotel in the Rampura area. Bubbling with joy and excitement, he was frolicking behind his mother holding his two-year-old sister Fatema Akter with one hand and carefully balancing a mug to bring back tea with the other, just a few hundred yards from their rented tin-shed home in the Kunjaban area. But little did they know about the tragedy that would strike them.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
arxiv.org | Mostafizur Rahman |Rafiul Islam |Jafor Sadek |Shehnaz Khaled
[Submitted on 13 Nov 2024] Title:PyGen: A Collaborative Human-AI Approach to Python Package Creation View a PDF of the paper titled PyGen: A Collaborative Human-AI Approach to Python Package Creation, by Saikat Barua and 5 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The principles of automation and innovation serve as foundational elements for advancement in contemporary science and technology.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Rafiul Islam
ZI Khan Panna was one of those most vocal against the brutal and deadly force student protesters had faced during the mass uprising, yet he has been implicated in a case over the injury of a demonstrator in Dhaka. Panna was among the Supreme Court lawyers who argued vehemently in favour of a writ petition before a High Court bench on July 29, seeking its orders to stop the use of bullets on the student protesters.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Rafiul Islam
Eminent lawyer ZI Khan Panna, who backed the student protesters during the mass uprising, has been made an accused in a case over the attempted murder of a demonstrator in the capital. Panna was among the Supreme Court lawyers who stood for a writ petitioner at the High Court on July 29, seeking orders to stop the use of bullets on the protesters. He was also a member of a citizen's commission formed to investigate human rights violations and loss of lives during the protests.
