Mohammad Jamil Khan

It takes around 4 hours to swallow 54 small packets of yaba for 41-year-old Josna Khatun. Each packet contains 50 pills.

Counterterrorism officials have claimed that the newly-formed militant outfit “Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya” were planning to create an arsenal in the remote hilly areas.

Top police officials have expressed resentment over field-level officials abusing drugs and being involved in the narcotics trade, and warned of stern action against them.

Police high-ups yesterday placed a host of demands, including the authority for the DB and counter-terror unit of the DMP to investigate money laundering cases and the  appointment of lawyers in the force to deal with such cases.

Police officials yesterday demanded that the government authorise the Police Headquarters to investigate the SP-level officers and determine their transfers and promotions instead of the home ministry.

It was a cloudy afternoon on October 2 at Shahpur border in Cumilla.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police will ensure security at the country’s first metro rail, set to be inaugurated on Wednesday, until a dedicated force is available.

The government’s much-hyped dope test initiative to eradicate drug abuse from the country is struggling to fully materialise thanks to bureaucratic tangles.

River police on November 19 recovered from the Balu river the body of an unidentified man who was tied to a sack full of stone in the capital’s Khilgaon.

Militant outfit Ansar al Islam, which has not carried out any attack since 2016, is apparently pursuing an aggressive strategy and has accordingly appointed new leaders in its military wing, counterterrorism officials said.

Nuruzzaman Raju owned a mobile phone repair shop in the capital’s Gulistan.

After using his connections to make fake NID cards of his political opponents and buying several SIM cards using those, Shahidul Islam Maznu, UP chairman of Faridpur’s Ishan Gopalpur, rented a flat in the capital’s Jatrabari.

Libya’s “game ghar”, an establishment where migrants are tortured and extorted, is operated by the father, wife and sister-in-law of a transnational trafficking syndicate. They were coordinating the activities on the Bangladesh end, like trapping migrants and collecting ransom money from the victims’ families.

Fearing sabotage ahead of the BNP's Dhaka rally on December 10, law enforcers have beefed up security at all entry points and other key locations in the capital.

Police launched a countrywide drive five days ago following the escape of two militants on death row on November 20, but they are yet to get any trace of the two.

A terrorism case filed years back against some Ansar Al Islam operatives has come to the fore again after the November 20 snatching of two death-row convicts from police custody.

A terrorism case filed years back against some Ansar Al Islam operatives has come to the fore again following the November 20 snatching of two death-row convicts from police custody.

Whenever targeted killings and the resurgence of extremist outfits enter the conversation, the name of sacked army major Syed Ziaul Haque comes up. This has been the case for over a decade.

The condemned militants snatched from police on Sunday received the master key to the handcuffs and android phones inside the jail early this month.

Ansar Al Islam’s military wing members snatched their fellows from police custody so that they could execute a plan to launch a major attack, Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime officials told The Daily Star yesterday.