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Mohammad Jamil Khan

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

4 HOUR(s)
After decades away, a few childhood details were enough for aid workers to trace his family in Cox’s Bazar
4 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
Mohammad Shahed

Shahed faked his own Covid positive report

Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed admitted that he made a fake certificate to show him Covid-19 positive, investigators said yesterday.
17 July 2020
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DGHS aware of JKG Health Care scams

Surgeon Sabrina Arif Chaudhury told interrogators that she had warned the health directorate multiple times about corruptions in JKG as soon as she found out what was going on.
16 July 2020
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Regent's Shahed: A man with a murky past

For any business deal, Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim used to issue bank cheques with encashment dates that could be two months later.
16 July 2020
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Sex Trade Racket: CID looking for cohorts of Azam Khan

Alamin Hossain alias Diamond used to call himself a dance teacher and had been running a so-called dance academy in the capital’s Mirpur for the last eight years.
14 July 2020
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Whole family of ‘casino brothers’ Enamul, Rupon involved in gambling

They owned 20 houses, 128 flats and 25 acres of land in Dhaka and nearby areas. Besides, they have 91 accounts in different banks where around Tk 2.8 crore were deposited so far and the current balance of these accounts is around Tk 19 crore.
14 July 2020

Forced Into Prostitution In Dubai: CID to seek Interpol help to nab traffickers

The syndicate that has been trafficking thousands of Bangladeshi girls for last eight years and forcing them into sex work is also involved in trafficking girls from India and Pakistan. It’s Indian and Pakistani members trafficked the girls to Dubai.
13 July 2020
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Fake Notes Before Eid Syndicates active again

Once again, ahead of Eid-ul-Azha when huge sales of sacrificial animals take place across the country, counterfeit note forgery syndicates have targeted the cattle markets like they do every year.
11 July 2020
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1,000 listed as human traffickers

Investigators are working to track down local human traffickers who along with different transnational syndicates send people abroad alluring them with promises of a better future.
11 July 2020
Major reshuffle in police force

Police admin brings change to organogram after new SP-rank officials assigned posts

With the recent creation of 215 superintendents of police (SP) rank posts, different police units have reorganised their structure by brining a change to the organogram.
5 July 2020

Drug traders rear head as movement restrictions ease

The pandemic is leaving an adverse impact on almost every sector, but when it comes to drug smuggling, Covid-19 has just been a reason to come up with newer, more innovative ideas and techniques.
4 July 2020
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Missing girl found after 7 years

She was around 11-year-old when she first came to Dhaka in 2012 to work as a domestic help from Dinajpur.
4 July 2020
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‘Perfect cover’ for crime

With wearing masks in public becoming compulsory to prevent the spread of Covid-19, criminals are also utilising the situation making it difficult for the law enforcers to identify them through CCTV footage.
2 July 2020
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Fire Service: Divers stretched to their limits

A diver has to take a break for about three hours after working under water for an hour.
1 July 2020
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Armed police battalions take charge of Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar

Two special police battalions, formed to ensure security of Rohingyas, have finally taken over the responsibility to ensure law and order inside the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
1 July 2020
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Launch capsize: Thousands throng Sadarghat amid fear of Covid-19 infection

Ignoring health directives to contain the spread of Covid-19, several thousands of people thronged the Sadarghat area today to witness the rescue operations of the launch capsize.
29 June 2020

Phone theft racket active in city: CID

They mostly worked in small groups -- around three to four persons in each one.
28 June 2020
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Fake Covid Reports: Cops track down dozen syndicates

While the coronavirus itself is a cause for grave concern in the country, some people are out there making business by putting others at further risk of infection by selling fake Covid-19 certificates.
24 June 2020
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Unauthorised masks, hand sanitisers galore in markets

Amid growing demand of face masks and sanitisers, unscrupulous producers and contractors are pushing unauthorised and off-brand products into the markets, raising alarm about public health and safety.
21 June 2020

Covid-19 Cases: Recovery rate 56pc at police hospitals

Amidst the gloomy mood of the coronavirus pandemic, a beacon of light can be found in the recovery rate of Bangladesh Police members, who got infected with the virus while working as frontliners during the countrywide shutdown.
20 June 2020
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Smugglers using courier services to get narcotics to Dhaka: Rab

Taking advantage of lax monitoring and thin presence of public transport amid the Covid-19 outbreak, smugglers are allegedly using courier services to send narcotics from bordering districts to Dhaka.
16 June 2020

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