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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Constables can’t seem to catch a break
Six months ago, 52-year-old constable Md Iqbal started working in the traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
20 November 2021
Luring with deals, discounts
Boran Uddin posed as a Bangladeshi expatriate living in Dubai or Qatar, working for an international travel agency.
18 November 2021
Firearms Smuggling: Syndicate eyeing polls, Rohingya camps
A transnational syndicate has been smuggling arms into Bangladesh from India and Myanmar for about four years. Its target group is criminals who would use arms in polls violence and Rohingya camps, say law enforcers.
16 November 2021
AI to assist police's Cyber Support for Women wing
With an aim to provide quick support to victims of cyber harassment, the police headquarters (PHQ) is going to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI) tool with all-women special wing called "Police Cyber Support for Women" (PCSW).
15 November 2021
Sundarbans fishers still tangled in web of oppression by local influentials
Reaching deep inside the Sundarbans, one will be taken aback to see mobile banking agents at such a remote place. But their set-ups inside the forest do a lot to help thousands of anglers, who build temporary houses there during fishing season.
15 November 2021
Out of robbers’ jaw, into loan sharks’
It seems the efforts to make the Sundarbans safe and secure for anglers is still far from fruition. Finally rid of robbers in 2018, they have now become “captive” to a high interest loan or “dadon” system, which they have to subscribe to even get access to the forest’s waters.
14 November 2021
Don’t leave your documents on the floor!
Mofizul Hoque Tutul (47) is a cleaner and gardener, employed on a temporary basis at the Agargaon passport office.
13 November 2021
‘New account fraud’
CTTC officials have discovered a transnational syndicate that embezzles hefty amounts of foreign currencies through an international brokerage house.
11 November 2021
Still bogged down by cases
They surrendered and handed over their arms in search of a regular life. But three years after the prime minister declared the Sundarbans “robber-free”, the robbers in question are yet to find a viable path in life, with no thanks to the endless web of proceedings of previously filed criminal cases.
1 November 2021
Life as a Constable: Under stress, in distress
When Jibon Sarker (not his real name) joined the police force as a constable about 10 years ago, he took it for a life-changing job. In many ways, it is; but not for the right reasons.
25 October 2021
No top posts for DIP officials at passport-visa wings in missions abroad
Around eight years ago, the government established passport and visa wings at different Bangladesh missions to provide better services to expatriates and visitors.
11 October 2021
UAE Visit Visas: Only ‘real’ tourists to fly
Twenty-year-old Md Bijoy has already paid Tk 2 lakh for taking a cleaner’s job in Dubai and has even got a visa to the Gulf emirate.
7 October 2021
Illegal arms trade in southwest: Barrelling on political clout
Some Awami League leaders and activists in Jashore have long been running an illegal arms business in the country’s south-western districts, exploiting their political links to make big money and to avoid arrest, police and local politicians said.
6 October 2021
Careful what you click
They have no degrees. Some of them have not even completed primary education. Yet, they learnt how to trick Facebook users into giving them their social media IDs and passwords.
2 October 2021
Crystal meth creeps up on city
There is a growing market for highly addictive drug crystal meth in the capital, operated mostly through encrypted messaging apps, officials have found out.
28 September 2021
A fraudster in many guises
Sometimes he introduced himself as an officer at the land office, sometimes as an officer in the deputy commissioner’s office and at other times as an influential person in a government office.
26 September 2021
Targets precise in weekend robberies
For almost six years, members of a gang from Barishal have been targeting money exchange agents in the capital and looting huge amounts of cash from them.
23 September 2021
Ansar al Islam targeting non-Muslims, transgender people for recruitment: CTTC
Militant outfit Ansar al Islam, said to be the Bangladesh chapter of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, is now targeting non-Muslims and transgender people to recruit them into militancy, according to the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC).
19 September 2021
Couriers in use to smuggle out forex
The Dhaka airport authorities have seized Saudi riyals and Singapore dollars worth about Tk 12.5 crore from a Singapore-bound garment consignment, in a first such incident of smuggling of foreign currency in recent memory.
14 September 2021
Firearms Management: Long-due system launched
The government has moved to bring arms sales and licencing procedures under an automation system to prevent illegal use of legal arms in the country.
12 September 2021