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Mohammad Jamil Khan

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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
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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
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Want to buy a car? It’s only Tk 5,000!

Seized vehicles that are used for different crimes or have no valid documents mostly end up in auctions as scrap.
13 August 2022
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Lobbying on for top posts of police

Just over a week after a major reshuffle of the district superintendents of police, all eyes are on the police department in anticipation of possible changes in the top brass.
12 August 2022
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Better call Galib!

Galib is a problem solver of sorts. He deals with police-related issues, like releasing someone from custody and ensuring that an accused is not beaten while in remand.
5 July 2022
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Circular error in govt project: 492 officials not getting promised pay

Information service officers under a government project were supposed to draw a monthly salary of Tk 27,100, according to the job circular and their appointment letters.
5 July 2022
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Fake visas, real miseries

Using fake visas, a transnational syndicate has reportedly been trafficking people to Italy and Canada. A section of airport officials allegedly supported the syndicate in exchange for Tk 4 to 5 lakh, by allowing fake-visa holders to go abroad.
4 July 2022
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So far so good

Around 11:00am yesterday, Sufia Begum, a resident of the capital’s Dhanmondi area, went to Dhaka airport to fly to Bangkok for tourism purposes.
30 June 2022
Ansar Al Islam raised Tk 18 lakh through crowdfunding

CTTC to start deradicalising militants in jail this month

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit is going to start a long-overdue process of deradicalising militants inside prisons from this month.
30 June 2022
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6 years of Holey Artisan café attack: Neo JMB on the wane, some groups active online

Militant group Neo-JMB, which carried out a deadly attack at a Gulshan restaurant in 2016, currently has no strength to carry out another attack, but officers and security analysts see several other groups as threats.
30 June 2022
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Substance abuse in children spiralling

Children’s substance abuse has increased exponentially in the ten years since 2012 -- an alarming development for the society.
27 June 2022
International Day Against Drug Abuse

International Day Against Drug Abuse, Illicit Trafficking: Danger of drugs ever-present

Despite tough vigilance and special drives by law enforcers, narcotics, especially yaba, smuggling increased in 2021, when compared with the previous year.
26 June 2022
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Tortured while on video call with family

Find your fellow Bangladeshis. Bond over the sweet homesick feelings. Be friends. Invite them over for a meal.
23 June 2022
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Their tactic: inhumane torture

Twenty-seven-year-old Apel Ali went to Iraq on February 26, 2018, and started working at a hotel in Baghdad.
22 June 2022
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Evolution of cybercrime: It’s in the many technicalities

Last Friday, police officials collected details of a SIM card number that was used for hacking a mobile financial service (MFS) account.
18 June 2022
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Evolution of cybercrime (part 4): Faces behind the crimes

Twenty-two-year-old Ratul Sheikh is a farm labourer.
16 June 2022
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Evolution Of Cybercrime: Women, the worst sufferers as usual

From November 16, 2021, to April 30 this year, Police Cyber Support for Woman (PCSW) wing of Police Headquarters (PHQ) has received around 4,094 cybercrime complaints.
15 June 2022
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Tale of vile discoveries

Gone are the days when extortionists and blackmailers would take advantage of people’s religious beliefs and superstitions and extort money from them by pretending to be “Djinn er Badshah” -- the king of genies -- over the phones.
14 June 2022
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Patterns have evolved, so have criminals

They met on a social media site for something that soon turned out to be an intimate relationship of sorts.
13 June 2022
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Gates electronic, immigration process still manual

Although authorities have installed electronic immigration gates or e-gates at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), the system still does not have all the planned functions.
10 June 2022

‘Pay up, or you’ll end up like Tipu’

Just a week before Eid-ul-Fitr, a businessman, who has shops at the capital’s AGB colony kitchen market, received a call from an internet-generated number.
9 June 2022

‘Raking in money by promising govt jobs’

Md Selim, owner of a community centre in Rajshahi, submitted a file at the education ministry last month, requesting for a promotion for his relative, who worked at a college.
7 June 2022

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