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Mohammad Jamil Khan

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Barely able to speak Bangla, Farid found his family through memories of home

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After decades away, a few childhood details were enough for aid workers to trace his family in Cox’s Bazar
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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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To light from dark spiral of militancy

The husband is an engineer and the wife a doctor.
13 January 2021
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Fake NID for Tk 1.5 lakh

A syndicate of brokers and some dishonest staffers of the Election Commission had been forging national ID cards for years due to a lack of strict monitoring and loopholes in the system, found a police investigation.
8 January 2021
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Uzi in Guise of Rifles: Take legal action against importers

The police headquarters has recommended taking lawful action against the arms importers who sold semi-automated Uzi pistols after importing them under the declaration of rifles.
6 January 2021

Deradicalisation to eliminate militancy

Like developed countries, as part of a soft approach to eliminate militancy, Bangladesh is going to start an institutional deradicalisation process.
27 December 2020

‘Once drivers, they now hijack buses to conduct robbery’

They were drivers by profession and used to work in public transport.
25 December 2020
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Rising Cybercrime: Police hotlines flooded with complaints

“Please save me, I have no other option but to die.”
22 December 2020

DNC planning to buy phone trackers

With an aim to detect narcotics rings and the masterminds behind it, the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) has proposed to buy a mobile tracker system.
22 December 2020
Department of Narcotics Control

Give couriers access to NID server

To stop narcotics smuggling through national and international courier services, the Department of Narcotics Control has recommended National Identity Card server access for couriers.
17 December 2020
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Airports being used to smuggle out yaba

Drug traffickers smuggled four to five stashes of yaba pills in luggages or shipping boxes out of the country through the airports every month in the last two years.
17 December 2020
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Sinha murder pre-planned

Investigators have found that the murder of Maj (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan was pre-planned and they will mention it in the case’s charge sheet, which will be submitted to court soon.
12 December 2020

Tactical belts for cops

Bangladesh Police will be introducing tactical belts for officials involved in operational duty and patrols, as part of its efforts to better equip the force and make the policing system more efficient.
11 December 2020
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Hefajat Mayhem 2013: Govt moves to resume probe

The government is resuming the long-stalled investigations into 62 cases filed over the mayhem by thousands of Hefajat activists in the capital and elsewhere in May 2013.
4 December 2020
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Natural Disasters: Work going on for 5-layer protection

Uri grass is growing naturally along the shore of Bhasan Char. This type of grass provides protection to the shore and only grows in areas where there is no possibility of erosion, according to officials of the housing project there.
2 December 2020
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Bhasan Char: 2,500 Rohingyas soon to be there

An isolated island around 52 kilometres from Chattogram city has now been transformed into a planned, modern township with rows of white, multi-storey buildings.
1 December 2020
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Unequipped Morgues: Tricky autopsy gives doctors hard times

Salauddin Khan, officer-in-charge of Banani Police Station, lost his life during the Holey Artisan siege on July 1, 2016. Police officials suspected he had suffered bullet injuries during the operation to free the hostages.
26 November 2020
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Amphetamine Smuggling: Stopover Dhaka

A group of chemical traders in Chennai are found to be the kingpins of amphetamine smuggling from India through Dhaka, according to an investigation by the Department of Narcotics Control.
24 November 2020
Chittagong Port cargo transport suspended

The art of cargo theft

A syndicate has long been stealing imported goods after breaking the locks of containers at the Mongla Port and selling those in the local market, a DB investigation found.
23 November 2020
Golden Monir

Govt changes, but his ‘magic’ goes on

The rise of Monir Hossain, also known as Golden Monir, over almost two decades was unaffected by regime change because he knew how to keep high-ups in the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha and the housing and public works ministry happy.
22 November 2020
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34 robbers give up arms, surrender

At least 34 members of 11 robbery gangs yesterday surrendered their weapons to Rab-7 at Chattagram’s Banshkhali Adarsha High School.
12 November 2020
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53 Uzi Pistols: Detectives looking for users’ info

Detectives are now gathering details of those who own Uzi pistols; military-grade semi-automatic weapons imported in the absence of monitoring by the authorities.
6 November 2020

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