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Mohammad Jamil Khan

Covers Security, Cross-Border Crime, Human Rights and Migration

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Prisons bursting at twice their capacities

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Bangladesh’s 75 prisons are holding 98,233 inmates against a combined capacity of 45,186, more than double the designed limit, putting severe pressure on accommodation and healthcare.
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China-bound brides: Deceived, drugged and trafficked

18 August 2026
A 19-year-old’s ordeal puts spotlight on cross-border brokers, alleged trafficking networks
18 August 2026
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Update / They drifted to their deaths over 11 days

17 August 2026
9 Bangladeshis, one Sudanese confirmed dead after Greece-bound boat drifts in Mediterranean for 11 days
17 August 2026
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Cheap adhesive addiction rising among women

14 August 2026
It was around 5:00pm on July 22. Seven to eight months pregnant, Parvin Akter, 20, sat near the Farmgate Metro Rail Station with three other women, lifting a polythene bag to her face every few seconds.
14 August 2026
Bangladesh Saudi Arabia passenger flight increase

Bangladesh-Saudi weekly flight entitlement rises to 84

14 August 2026
Saudi Arabia has opened the high-demand Bangladesh-Saudi air route wider under a new bilateral deal, giving Bangladeshi airlines more room to expand. But how much of that opportunity they can use will depend on whether they have enough aircraft.
14 August 2026
Bangladeshi workers killed in Saudi Arabia fire

A village in tears

11 August 2026
Moyna Begum had no electricity at home when her son Mohan Pramanik was calling from Riyadh as a fire tore through the sofa factory where he worked.
11 August 2026
Bank Resolution Amendment Act 2026 approved by cabinet

Door closes for errant ex-owners to reclaim banks

11 August 2026
Cabinet okays draft law allowing NHRC to issue interim orders
11 August 2026
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Biman flight from Toronto: 174 Bangladeshis stranded for over 33hrs in Rome

9 August 2026
At least 174 Bangladeshi passport holders, including elderly people, women and children, had been stranded at Rome’s Fiumicino International Airport for nearly 33 hours since landing there at 7:20am (Rome time) on Friday, after a technical glitch grounded a Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft.
9 August 2026
AL leader mintu assures killers payment for mp anar murder

Feud over illegal gold trade likely behind killing

Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, who went missing in Kolkata last week, has been murdered by what the government says are some Bangladeshi men.
22 May 2024
MP Azim's daughter files abduction case

Plot thickens over AL MP Azim going missing

Intelligence agencies fear the worst for Awami League MP Anwarul Azim Anar who has gone missing in India, said a source in a local law enforcement agency.
21 May 2024
Impact of poverty on child marriages in Rasulpur

The child brides of Rasulpur

As Meem tended to the child, a group of girls around her age strolled past the yard.
17 May 2024
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Harassment writ large

Mosharrof Hossain, 48, has been a reconditioned car seller for 30 years and has  never been arrested or accused in any criminal case.
16 May 2024
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Despite surplus, cattle smuggling on ahead of Eid

There’s hardly a month left to celebrate Eid-ul Azha.
16 May 2024
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Taking tk 9 lakh for police job: Suspended, 2 cops now blame each other

Ratan Das, 22, was an employee of a cosmetic shop in Madaripur.
11 May 2024
Illegal city toll collection in Dhaka

‘City tolls’ now an easy way of extortion

Having driven his truck all the way from Chattogram, Kashem Mia reached Swamibagh in the capital around 1:00am on March 27, when a group of young men appeared on the road and waved desperately.
10 May 2024
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Fake job offer in Kyrgyzstan: 3 of a trafficking syndicate held

Sona Mia, 39, a rickshaw-puller in Rajbari, saw an advertisement on YouTube in December last year, that a company -- “Jannat Trade International” -- offers working visas for washing cars in Kyrgyzstan.
7 May 2024
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How drugs find their way inside prisons

In a midnight raid on February 8, Jashore police arrested Ashraful Murad Rubel, a guard at the district’s central jail, for his involvement in drug trade.
27 April 2024
Oust-Govt Movement: Family members now face arrests

Teacher Recruitment Exam Question Leak: ‘Syndicate struck a deal with 200 candidates’

A syndicate made an arrangement with at least 200 candidates prior to the third phase written test for the recruitment of assistant teachers in government primary schools, offering to provide leaked question papers along with solutions.
25 April 2024
DMP launches Quick Response Teams

Police to beef up security across Dhaka

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has been instructed to beef up security measures in police stations, outposts, and police establishments, alongside the introduction of an alarm scheme.
24 April 2024
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Certificate Forgery: Detectives now looking for source of ‘security papers’

Detectives are now searching for the source of the security papers that were used to provide forged BTEB certificates.
24 April 2024
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A predator on Dhaka streets

Tipu Kibria used to be an author of children’s books.
23 April 2024
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Mohammadpur Geneva Camp: Narcos clashing over new heroin spot

Mohammadpur Geneva Camp, where narcotics trade is rampant, has been witnessing clashes every day since the day after Eid-ul-Fitr.
20 April 2024
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Bailey Road Fire: Leaking gas, shorted electric kettle to blame

The deadly fire at the Green Cozy Cottage shopping mall on the capital’s Bailey Road, which claimed 46 lives on February 29, originated from an electric short circuit at a kettle on the ground floor café named “Cha Chumuk”.
6 April 2024
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Bailey Road Inferno: Rajuk finds gross violation of rules

The owner of Green Cozy Cottage on Bailey Road, where a deadly fire claimed 46 lives on February 29, had no approvals for commercial use of the property.
3 April 2024
Yaba now selling online

Yaba peddling goes digital

Sohel Hossain*, a 48-year-old employee at a private company, has been consuming yaba for the past six years.
31 March 2024
Green Road: Footpaths under the clutch of extortionists

Green Road: Footpaths under the clutch of extortionists

While there are sidewalks on both sides of the road from Farmgate’s Ananda Cinema Hall to Panthapath intersection, they are hardly functional.
30 March 2024
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Teen gang patrons still untouched

Seven years ago, the nation was shaken by the murder of an eighth grader named Adnan Kabir by a gang of boys about his age in the capital’s Uttara.
23 March 2024
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720 educational institutions in Dhaka fire-prone

National Ideal College, a popular educational institution in the capital’s Khilgaon, has over 1,600 students attending classes in two separate residential buildings.
6 March 2024

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