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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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Rogue cop at it again

Over a year ago, an assistant sub-inspector was suspended and attached to a police lines after a police investigation found him guilty of beating up a man and looting money from him.
11 September 2021

Guile, greed and bloated bank accounts

Sohidul Islam is a mason by profession, who works on various contractual jobs at construction sites.
7 September 2021
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Illegal weapons sneak in on credit

A transnational syndicate has adopted a new strategy to smuggle firearms and bullets from India.
4 September 2021
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Ansar al Islam plans to beef up its female wing

Militant outfit Ansar al Islam, said to be the Bangladesh chapter of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, is aiming to strengthen its female wing with at least 25 female members directly involved in its organisational activities.
2 September 2021
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Country’s first bomb archive goes online

The country’s first-ever “Bomb Data Centre” is now ready and to provide details of any bomb-like object within moments just analysing its picture.
1 September 2021

2 CID men ‘framed trader for murder’

Two police officers -- a special superintendent and a sub-inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department -- allegedly confined a trader to the CID headquarters for about three days and then framed him in a murder case as he refused to pay them extortion money, according to a complaint the trader filed with the PMO.
31 August 2021
Human Trafficking

Traffickers target slum women

Transnational human trafficking syndicates are now targeting women in city slums and selling them to brothels in India after promising them lucrative jobs.
30 August 2021
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Conned on ‘imo’

First, they collect an expatriate’s number through the online communication app “imo”. Next, they hack the target ID by sending an OTP (one-time password). They then spend a week observing conversations made from the ID.
30 August 2021
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Ready to face any untoward situation: CTTC chief after Taliban's Afghanistan takeover

Taliban forces have taken control of Afghanistan’s Kabul; the whole world is now observing the country’s political situation. But the question is, how will all this affect Bangladesh, a country that is so intertwined with the region’s issues?
17 August 2021
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August 17 countrywide series blasts :JMB now banking on other groups

Although law enforcers managed to weaken mainstream JMB after the militant outfit carried out a synchronised bomb attack across the country on this day in 2005, its members have raised their ugly heads on a few occasions after absorbing into like-minded terror groups.
16 August 2021
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Assasssination of Bangabandhu: Where are the five fugitive killers?

Twelve years have gone by since the trial of our history’s most tragic assassination has been completed, but the five self-confessed killers could not be brought back to the country for execution.
14 August 2021
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Neo JMB planned to make bombs with chloroform

The IS-inspired militant outfit Neo JMB was planning to make chloroform bombs for carrying out attacks in buses, classrooms, and at public places, claimed Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) officials.
12 August 2021
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‘Furkan planned drone bombings’

His plan was to make drones and carry out attacks after attaching explosives with them.
11 August 2021

Mehendiganj Killings: 4 lives lost to bloody rivalry

Four killings in 10 days -- first two on April 11 and then again on April 20.
7 August 2021
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Tale of an upazila in throes of extremism

It was mid 2017. A group of about a dozen young men in Araihazar, Narayanganj, suddenly started telling their neighbours that the way of saying prayers at their local mosques was not right.
5 August 2021
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19 ‘joined Neo JMB’ from one upazila

At least 19 youths have joined IS-inspired militant outfit “Neo JMB”, an offshoot of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from a single upazila of Narayanganj, believes counterterrorism unit.
3 August 2021
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Drug Trade in Geneva Camp: Six gangs vying for control after Ishtiaq’s death

Ishtiaq Ahmed, the top drug lord of Mohammadpur Geneva Camp, who was hiding for a long period, died in a hospital in India after being infected from Covid-19.
3 August 2021

‘Neo-JMB highly active online’

Watching videos online, members of the “military wing” of the banned militant outfit “Neo JMB” learnt to prepare improvised explosive devices (IED).
2 August 2021
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Traffickers abuse visit, on-arrival visas

Abusing  visit visas and on-arrival visas, a transnational syndicate has been trafficking people from Bangladesh to different countries, including the Middle East and Europe.
13 July 2021
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Neo-JMB wanted to make den in Bandarban

Kawsar Hossain, an explosive expert of the IS inspired militant outfit Neo-JMB, tried to build a militant den in the hilly area of Bandarban to   establish links with militants in nearby Myanmar’s Arakan.
12 July 2021

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