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Mohammad Jamil Khan

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Bangladesh prisons overcrowding 98,233 inmates

Prisons bursting at twice their capacities

11 HOUR(s)
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.
11 HOUR(s)
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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
dandy addiction among women in Dhaka

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
Heatwave

Heatwave: Jail authorities take measures to protect inmates

The jail authorities, to protect inmates from the heatwave, are keeping the them under the shade of the trees inside the jail grounds for the majority of the daytime
16 April 2023
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Another fire crushes traders’ Eid hopes

Just 11 days after a blaze ripped through the Bangabazar shopping complex, another one yesterday gutted Dhaka New Super Market, causing losses to businesses and traders.
15 April 2023
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Siddique Bazar Blast: Faulty Titas gas line might have caused it

A faulty Titas Gas line might have caused the explosion at the seven-storey Café Queen building in the capital’s Siddique Bazar last month, say investigators.
14 April 2023

When cons use Facebook as a tool

They had a team to keep an eye on law enforcers.
12 April 2023
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Human trafficking syndicate busted

The promise of a better life in a foreign land has long been a lure for many. But for some, this dream turns into a nightmare when they become targets of human-trafficking syndicates.
10 April 2023
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‘Pay some, get so much more’

Taking a deposit of Tk 3 lakh, he first gave the depositor an appointment for the post of an assistant teacher in a school with a monthly salary of Tk 18,000.
6 April 2023
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Dreams, hopes go up in smoke

They invested the money they had and the money they could borrow in the hope of good business ahead of Eid but within a few hours yesterday, they lost everything.
4 April 2023
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Meth smuggling rose by 3 times in a year

From 2021 to 2022, the seizure of crystal meth increased by three times.
29 March 2023
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Demerit Point For Drivers: Govt agencies dragging foot on enforcement

When the Road Transport Act-2018 was enacted over four years ago incorporating a system of demerit points on driving licenses for traffic violation, the authorities said the system would go a long way in ensuring road safety.
27 March 2023

Families caught in bureaucratic tangle

Partha Roy Chowdhury, a sub-inspector of Itna Police Station in Kishoreganj, was severely injured in a road accident on the way to a Khagrachhari court for testimony on October 14, 2020.
3 March 2023
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How a student is reuniting families

It was March 2019. The clock ticked 1:30am. An old man was lying in the middle of Dhaka-Mawa highway.
3 March 2023

Police want 550 SP posts before polls

The Police Headquarters is planning to propose promotion of 550 police officials to superintendents of police keeping them in the offices they are serving now.   
3 March 2023
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Conning people inside the secretariat

As per the plan, the gang first arranged for entrance passes to get into the secretariat.
21 February 2023
In Dhaka, footpaths not for pedestrians only

In Dhaka, footpaths not for pedestrians only

It’s a 10-minute walk from Farmgate’s Ananda Cinema Hall to the Panthapath intersection through Green Road. However, it takes 20 minutes to cross this 700-metre road, thanks to illegal occupants of the footpath
17 February 2023
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Dhaka-Chattogram Highway finally coming under watch

1,427 CCTV cameras to be set up by June to check theft of RMG shipments, robbery
17 February 2023
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Dream of better life ends in nightmare

Without any licence to run a recruiting agency, they used to send people abroad.
14 February 2023
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A grand ploy to get visas

The gang first communicates with businesses in the US, Czech Republic, Italy, and Poland, introducing themselves as suppliers of Bangladesh’s security forces.
9 February 2023
Climate-Related Disasters

9.4m displaced in seven years

At least 1,053 people were killed and 9.4 million more displaced internally in different climate-related disasters in 58 districts in seven years from 2014, says a recent study.
9 February 2023
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Leaders at home, robbers on highways

Locally, they were known as politicians or social workers. They even held social programmes spending a considerable sum of money.
3 February 2023
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Graft is his middle name

Internal GCC enquiry upon directive of LGRD ministry exposes countless misdeeds of suspended mayor Zahangir Alam
3 February 2023

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