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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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Tipu’s aide hired hitman, armed him

An aide of Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu hired the hitman and gave him a gun to have Tipu assassinated, according to the confessional statement of hitman Masum Mohammad Akash.
6 April 2022
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Fake persona brings in real money

He was once a preacher, giving sermons at different waz-mahfils. At the time, he was merely a Jamaat-Shibir activist in Satkhira’s Kalaroa upazila.
31 March 2022
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Tipu murder - At least five took part in the killing mission: probe

At least five people took part in the killing of Jahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of Motijheel Awami League, in the capital’s Shahjahanpur a week ago.
30 March 2022
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Don’t click that link!

Using the “add money” option of mobile financial services (MFS), several syndicates are looting money by hacking into users’ online bank accounts and credit cards.
28 March 2022
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Mosque water the only alternative

It takes Anwar Hossain, a 60-year-old cook at a mess in the capital’s Farmgate, about an hour to make a trip to the nearest deep tube-well, get 10 litres of water, and return home.
25 March 2022

Youth held over vandalism of idols in temple

Police have arrested a man on charges of vandalising idols in a Hindu temple in the capital’s Khilgaon on Monday.
23 March 2022
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Bangladeshi expats in Iraq confined, tortured, extorted by syndicate

Inside the torture cell, when there was no water, urine was offered as a substitute.
23 March 2022

‘Make sure you look poor, needy’

It’s an organised gang that mostly operates in government hospitals. It targets those that come for treatment from outside Dhaka, feed them sedatives, and loot their valuables as the victims fall unconscious.
21 March 2022
Ragib Ahsan

Ahsan Group embezzled at least Tk 130cr using religious clout: CID

It was corruption at a massive scale, undertaken by a single family.
16 March 2022
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TikTok: preferred app for youth crime?

Though a relatively new social media platform, TikTok has already become a preferred tool for criminals to carry out their activities, according to law enforcers.
14 March 2022
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Scamming from a quiet village

In the quiet village of Faridpur’s Dumain, the residents do all kinds of work, from working in the field to running shops, for their livelihood. But many have chosen a more sinister path to make ends meet.
10 March 2022
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Gone in four seconds

Believe it or not, there are some “professional” thieves out there who can unlock motorbike locks within four to five seconds.
7 March 2022
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He was fugitive in plain sight for 21 years

A man, sentenced to death for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was right under the nose of law enforcers in Dhaka for 21 years.
5 March 2022
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Even jail stay not free; some prisoners forced to pay for ‘better services’

Arrested for marijuana possession, rickshaw puller Abdul Kuddus landed in Dhaka Central Jail in October 2020.
4 March 2022
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Transnational nexus bringing in Phensedyl

A transnational currency forgery gang joined hands with drug traffickers, and together they smuggle Phensedyl from India using fake Indian rupees printed in Pakistan.
27 February 2022
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E-gates at HSIA yet not operational

Seven months after the inauguration, the authorities could still not make the e-gates operational for e-passport holders at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, frustrating inbound and outbound passengers.
18 February 2022
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‘A transnational syndicate’

Between January 2 and 4, he attempted to withdraw money with cloned cards 84 times. The cards are from nationals of around 40 countries, including the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Spain.
7 February 2022
Ansar al Islam resurgence

Still stuck in a Bureaucratic Tangle

The proposal to appoint psychologists for deradicalisation programme remains stuck in a bureaucratic tangle.
1 February 2022

Back into darkness

Abdul Hoque was among the several hundred drug traders from Brahmanbaria who had surrendered to police during an anti-narcotics crackdown in 2017.
30 January 2022
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Social media content: IGP wants a ‘community contract’

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed has suggested forming of a “community contract” in Bangladesh to deal with inappropriate contents on social media, especially Facebook.
25 January 2022

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