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Mohammad Jamil Khan

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Bangladeshi migrants workers rights in Malaysia

Workers’ skills, migration on separate tracks

4 October 2026
More than seven in 10 outbound workers leave Bangladesh without any training, according to a study, and experts say the problem goes beyond the capacity of technical training centres (TTCs).
4 October 2026
Malaysia job market for Bangladeshi workers

US war on Iran tanks workers’ migration

2 October 2026
The number of Bangladeshis approved to take up jobs in 10 major overseas markets fell nearly 35 percent in the first nine months of the year on the back of a slump in Saudi-bound recruitment, along with other traditional Gulf markets, due to the US-Israel war on Iran.
2 October 2026
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Crackdown on teen gangs to go nationwide

1 October 2026
After a series of violent incidents heightened concerns over public safety, law enforcers are stepping up drives against teen gangs and other criminal networks. They are also targeting the influential people behind such groups.
1 October 2026
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Jobs in Malaysia: Demand letters attested, rules still unclear

30 September 2026
The Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur has begun attesting job-demand letters for Bangladeshi workers, even though the recruitment process remains opaque, with no formal government announcement yet on the mechanism, costs or departure timeline.
30 September 2026
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Biman buying 10 Airbus planes: Aviation minister

30 September 2026
Biman expects four Airbus A350-900s, six A320neos; 13 Boeing 787-10s, two 787-9s, and ten 737 Max8s in 2030's
30 September 2026
Biman Bangladesh Airlines orders new Boeing planes

Biman bets big with 11 more Boeing jets

25 September 2026
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has ordered 11 more jets, taking its Boeing order book to 25 aircraft and pushing ahead with the biggest fleet expansion in its history, as negotiations continue for 10 Airbus planes.
25 September 2026
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Cox’s Bazar International Airport set for October launch

24 September 2026
But uncertainty remains over which airlines to operate int’l flights
24 September 2026
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Limited banking access proposed for Rohingyas to check hundi risks

22 September 2026
An intelligence report has proposed allowing selected Rohingya families to open controlled bank accounts to divert hundi remittances into formal channels and curb their misuse for crime and terror financing.
22 September 2026
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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
e-gates at Dhaka airport

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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To treat burn patients, time is of the essence

At least 100 people were burnt, and of them, 67 were being treated after the BM container depot fire in Chattogram. Due to the limited capacity in Chattogram, patients with serious injuries needed to be shifted to Dhaka through emergency helicopters.
7 June 2022

Flour balls for medicines!

They target medicines that are widely sold in the market, like Naproxen-Plus, Pantonex, Seclo, Monas and Finix. And they make the fake versions using flour and semolina.
6 June 2022
Nursing college question leak

Invading homes in seconds

It only takes 15 to 20 seconds for them to cut through a window or balcony and enter a house.
2 June 2022
Nursing college question leak

‘It took them seconds to steal a phone’

Aziz Mohammad was in Saudi Arabia for 33 years. As a hafez, the 45-year-old used to work as an imam at different mosques, and also as a driver.
21 May 2022
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DSHE question leak: Field agents were active to sell leaked questions, say detectives

A cashier and book-centre staffer of two government colleges in Dhaka have worked as field agents to find examinees who would purchase the leaked questions of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education’s (DSHE) recruitment test.
21 May 2022
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Conning customers with bank details

Around 1:10pm on March 12, Abu Bakkar Siddique received a call from “+16491”. The caller identified himself as an official of Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL).
19 May 2022
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DSHE Question Leak: More names surface

As investigation into the reported question leak of a Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) recruitment exam progresses, more names are coming out.
19 May 2022
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Defrauding 60 people a week!

Around 10:00am on March 23, Mosharaf Hossain requested Ansar member Ehsak Ali, who was on-duty at the children’s ward of national cancer research institute, to admit a patient.
18 May 2022
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DSHE staffers involved in recruitment exam's question leak: DB

Two employees of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) leaked the question paper of the recruitment exam for the post of “office assistant/computer operator”.
16 May 2022
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Using expats to smuggle gold

In the name of sending gifts to dear ones, several syndicates have been using expatriates to smuggle gold into Bangladesh.
13 May 2022

New outfit trying to emerge following JMB’s footsteps

A new extremist outfit, “Jama’atul Muslimeen”, has been formed, keeping strategic similarities with home-grown, banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
10 May 2022

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