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Bangladesh prisons overcrowding 98,233 inmates

Prisons bursting at twice their capacities

19 August 2026
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.
19 August 2026
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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
Human Trafficking

Human trafficking cases: Only 1.5pc see conviction

Seven years ago, Mohammad Sabuj and his neighbour Mohiuddin Sarkar from Cumilla’s Daudkandi paid around Tk 13 lakh to six people who lured them with well-paying jobs in Germany. 
8 October 2022
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Back to yaba biz after weathering the storm

Shah Azam, 28, a yaba godfather of Teknaf, surrendered to police on February 16, 2019, promising to leave the drug business and never engage in the trade again. He was sent to jail at the time and released in November 2020.
2 October 2022
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Ansar al Islam: It’s helping men to flee abroad to collect funds

To collect funds, increase organisational strength, and avoid arrest, Al-Qaeda-inspired militant outfit Ansar Al Islam is now sending its permanent members abroad.
29 September 2022
Ansar al Islam resurgence

Ansar al Islam resurgence: ‘NRBs funding reorganisation’

Ansar al Islam, which claims to be the Bangladesh chapter of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, has received about Tk 1.5 crore in the last three and half years from people in the UK and Australia for its operational activities as the militant outfit looks to stage a comeback.
29 September 2022
5 detained for assaulting freedom fighter

7 Missing youths: Drawn into extremism by some professionals

A government employee, schoolteachers, doctors and imams were found to have links with seven youths who ran away from their Cumilla homes last month, said CTTC and Rab officials.
27 September 2022
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TikTok stays

Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology has recently dismissed a parliamentary standing committee’s recommendation for closing down TikTok in the country.
23 September 2022
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Gunshots now heard from Ukhiya

As firing and mortar shelling in Myanmar were now heard from Ukhiya border of Cox’s Bazar yesterday, the local authorities warned the boat owners of not carrying Rohingyas amid fear of their fresh entry.
20 September 2022
Bangladesh-Myanmar border

Tensions in Ghumdhum: 300 families ‘to be moved’

Amid incessant gunfire and mortar shelling in Myanmar close to the Bangladesh border, the local administration is planning to evacuate around 300 families in Ghumdhum union of Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila. 
18 September 2022
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Tensions on Myanmar border: Panicked, locals scramble to safety

Thirty-year-old Noor Hasina lives in a house in Konarpara along the Tambru border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila.
18 September 2022
Myanmar Bangladesh border

‘Trying for peaceful repatriation’

Amid fears of fresh entry of Rohingyas into Bangladesh, following the continuous assaults by the Myanmar military against the Arakan Army along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in the past few weeks, the government has said they are trying to repatriate Rohingyas  peacefully.
15 September 2022
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Spectre of fresh Rohingya influx looms

The Myanmar military’s continuous air and ground assaults against the Arakan Army (AA) along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in the past few weeks have triggered fears of fresh entry of Rohingyas into the country.
15 September 2022
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88% bikers in road accidents don’t wear helmets: Study

Even though the number of motorbikes and deaths in bike-related accidents is rising sharply, only 34 percent of bikers wear helmets while driving, according to a recent study conducted by the World Bank and Buet’s Accident Research Institute.
13 September 2022
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Once a fraud, always a fraud?

Apparently, you can sack the man out of the bank, but you can’t take the banker out of the man!
11 September 2022
terrorism

Missing youths: Radicals out to swell ranks

Once again, youths are leaving their homes after being indoctrinated into extremism online, found law enforcers working to combat terrorism.
11 September 2022
Bangladesh's economic growth

Remittance: Tk 25,000cr lost to hundi in last four months

At least 5,000 agents of different mobile financial services made suspicious transactions involving around Tk 25,000 crore, meant to be remitted by Bangladeshi expatriates, in the last four months.
8 September 2022
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Narcos hard to put behind bars

Although Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) shows rising drug cases and arrests in its annual round-up every year, more than half of the cases end up in acquittals.
4 September 2022
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How do you make a bus disappear?

Not a motorbike, not even a car, their target is stealing an entire bus.
25 August 2022

New drugs, new challenges

Despite law enforcers’ tough vigilance, smugglers are trying to introduce new types of narcotics in the country and are doing business using social media.
23 August 2022
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Illegal trafficking, legal means

They had valid visas, training and work permits.
17 August 2022
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Many militants still at large

Sanwar Hossain joined Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in 2000, influenced by none other than the banned outfit’s then supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman.
16 August 2022

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