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Mohammad Jamil Khan

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

3 HOUR(s)
After decades away, a few childhood details were enough for aid workers to trace his family in Cox’s Bazar
3 HOUR(s)
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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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Fire lasted just seconds

Cooking gas trapped in the Narayanganj mosque was ignited by a spark at an overloaded circuit-breaker, and the inferno didn’t last more than a couple of seconds, explosives experts said yesterday.
7 September 2020
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Gas leak behind mosque blast

Death toll from Friday’s explosion in the Narayanganj mosque reached 20 last night with fire officials suspecting that the incident took place due to leak in a gas pipeline that runs beneath the mosque.
5 September 2020
Mohammad Shahid Islam

Trafficking to Kuwait: Investigators looking for MP Shahid’s brother

They used to contact people from across the country through brokers and charge each of them Tk 5 lakh to Tk 7 lakh for sending them to Kuwait.
28 August 2020
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Refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar: Rohingyas tangled up in crimes

Three years on, crimes like murder, abduction, extortion and narcotics smuggling continue to multiply at the world’s biggest refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar.
26 August 2020
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Chakaria ‘Shootout’: Was Jafar a drug dealer?

Md Jafar, who was killed in a police “shootout” along with two others in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar on July 31, used to run a drug syndicate in Bandarban, Patiya and Chakaria, intelligence sources say.
18 August 2020

‘Tk 5 lakh for each murder’

He started as a “shooter”, when he was 18 years old.
14 August 2020

Looted from Dhaka, sold in Chattogram

Divided in multiple groups, they mostly targeted shopping malls in Dhaka -- each team assigned a specific task.
12 August 2020
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5 ‘members of Neo-JMB cell’ arrested

They planned to draw the attention of the Islamic State by carrying out several explosive attacks ahead of the Eid-ul-Adha.
12 August 2020
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‘Drama by cops’ gone wrong

Some policemen took the bomb inside Pallabi Police Station to stage a bomb-recovery and frame someone in a case.
10 August 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic: Cybercriminals on the prowl

With people mostly staying home and spending more time online due to the ongoing pandemic, a group of criminals are active and swindling crores of taka through duping them on social media.
9 August 2020
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DMP to probe whether bomb was handled properly

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday formed a three-member committee to investigate the explosion incident inside the capital’s Pallabi Police Station on early Wednesday.
30 July 2020
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Crime Rising Amid Pandemic: Cops blame joblessness, income drop

After a sharp fall in crime rate during the first few days of coronavirus pandemic, crimes like theft, robbery and mugging have recently taken an upward turn.
27 July 2020
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He used power of media to build his empire

Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim had used the “power of media” to be on good terms with politicians, bureaucrats and law enforcers to build his criminal network, detectives said.
26 July 2020
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Intel on Possible ‘Militant Attack’: New security alert before Eid

The police have received intelligence that militant outfit “Neo JMB” could try to carry out attacks centring the Eid-ul-Azha.
26 July 2020

The allure of a million-dollar gift

Along with some Bangladeshis, a group of foreign nationals have formed organised rackets and swindling crores of taka from people through duping them on social media
25 July 2020
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Taking ‘Advantage’ of Pandemic: Land grabbers feasting on unguarded plots

With people mostly staying home to avoid coronavirus infection, land grabbers are using this opportunity to take over unguarded and empty plots of land in the capital’s Khilgaon.
21 July 2020

She taught at three madrasas

Before marrying a Bangladeshi man last year, Indian national Ayesa Jannat Mohona had visited Bangladesh three times since 2016.
19 July 2020
Mohammad Shahed

Cobweb of deception

The meeting was arranged at a government rest house in Sunamganj in January. Three luxury cars were parked outside with a number of security guards on watch. The local upazila nirbahi officer was taking care of food and other amenities.
19 July 2020
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Shahed’s gang delivered ‘accident’ victims

A middle-aged man from Sylhet’s Companiganj came to the capital’s Uttara at his relative’s house in May last year. He was waiting for a rickshaw in front of Regent Hospital when a car hit him from behind.
18 July 2020
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Ministry high officials played it for JKG

Two additional secretaries of the health ministry and two directors of the health directorate allegedly helped JKG Healthcare CEO Ariful Chaudhury to get the contract for collecting Covid-19 test samples.
18 July 2020

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