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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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Inmates run illegal arms trade from jail

His name is Ali Akbar Prokash. But he is known as “Akbar the Great” among his cohorts for his expertise and innovative techniques used in illegal arms trade.
24 January 2022
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Bail of militant suspects remains a concern

Ariful Karim Chowdhury alias Adnan was arrested by police in 2015 over his involvement with banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji). He was then a senior officer in a private bank.
22 January 2022
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Jailed militants: Prisons not preventing their activities

Prison seems to have deterred militants little as they are continuing with their malicious activities with the help of a section of unscrupulous guards.
21 January 2022
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Officials prepare list of demands ahead of Police Week

Like every year, police officials are likely to come up with a list of demands for the upcoming Police Week, scheduled to be held from January 23 to 27.
21 January 2022

3 days, 40 ATM cards, 84 withdrawal attempts

Cloning credit card of citizens of around 40 countries, a transnational syndicate has been withdrawing money from ATM booths of different countries.
19 January 2022

Promising jobs, fraud gang pockets crores

When people started losing jobs during the pandemic, a group of fraudsters exploited the opportunity and started swindling the dispirited people by promising them a better life.
17 January 2022
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Scripted to a T

They first make some magnetic coins by melting copper wire.
15 January 2022
Ansar al Islam resurgence

NEO-JMB: Financier now allowed to travel abroad

Despite restrictions after her arrest, Dhaka’s Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal ordered the police to unblock the passport of Humaira Zakir Nabila, chief a “sister department” of Neo-JMB and it’s financier.
11 January 2022
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The Forbidden Forest Life

“Bullets can’t hit me! I led hundreds of gunfights, but the bullets always just whizzed past me!” exclaimed a self-assured Jahangir Shikari, former robber of the Sundarbans.
7 January 2022
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Too good to be true!

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2 January 2022

Dating apps new way to extort money

Using dating apps like Tinder, Tantan and Mamba, criminals are extorting money from people by ensnaring and abducting them.
1 January 2022
Ansar al Islam resurgence

Ansar Al Islam: Lying low, continues recruitment

Militant outfit Ansar Al Islam has no plan to carry out any attacks right now but its recruitment and training activities are going on in secret.
23 December 2021
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Avijit Murder Masterminds: Holed up somewhere inside Bangladesh

Police officers believe that the two fugitive leaders of Ansar al Islam, for whose information the US State department declared a $5 million reward, are hiding somewhere in Bangladesh.
21 December 2021
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Return of the sea robbers

With their hands and legs tied, they were kept confined for three days straight. None of them got anything to eat, and when anyone would ask for water, only seawater was offered.
16 December 2021
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Justice for Human Trafficking: A privilege now gets in the way

When migrant workers fell victim to labour trafficking and filed cases with the police, the law enforcers prosecuted or arrested the recruiting agents responsible for sending the workers abroad. 
1 December 2021
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A father in disbelief

Abdur Rahman Bhandari was struggling to accept that his son would never come back.
30 November 2021
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They’re all in it together

Some recruiting agencies, travel agencies, and airport employees have joined hands to send migrant workers abroad with forged papers, law enforcers have found during probe.
30 November 2021
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Fake Indian rupees from Pakistan to India: Bangladesh a stopover

A transnational currency forgery syndicate has been smuggling fake Indian rupees into India from Pakistan for a couple of years using Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as transit.
27 November 2021
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Meth trade controlled from Dubai: Law enforcers say after arresting 4

A transnational syndicate from Dubai is controlling the smuggling and supply of the synthetic drug crystal meth, known as “ice”, from Myanmar to Dhaka, according to law enforcers.
22 November 2021

They duped people with ‘cheap’ phones

A three-member gang from Muktagacha of Mymensingh that has been embezzling lakhs of taka by baiting people with fancy gadgets at low prices on bikroy.com has been nabbed by the police.
20 November 2021

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