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Muntakim Saad

Injured protesters rehabilitation Bangladesh

July uprising survivors: The wounds that nothing can heal

19 July 2026
On August 5, 2024, then a 16-year-old ninth-grader Al Amin Hossain joined thousands of protesters outside BRAC University.
19 July 2026
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10 killings a day fuel concerns over law and order

16 June 2026
Analysts say illegal firearms, weak policing, and the return of top criminals after the 2024 political changeover are driving the violence.
16 June 2026
Illustration: Anwar Sohel

100 days of BNP government / Few gains to show on law and order

4 June 2026
Before the February election, the BNP vowed to restore law and order and ensure public safety if voted to office.
4 June 2026
Brutal Killings in Bangladesh

Wave of grisly murders fuels safety fears

21 May 2026
1,142 murder cases filed in four months; large number of children among victims
21 May 2026
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213 assaults on law enforcers in four months

14 May 2026
Three Rab members in plainclothes went to Brahmanbaria’s Nabinagar on Monday to gather intelligence as part of their routine work, but they ended up being held hostage by a criminal gang.
14 May 2026
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Extortion and grabbing plague Kalyanpur slum

11 May 2026
Several groups, some claiming links to the ruling party, have allegedly been involved in grabbing shops and slum houses, as well as extortion and intimidation, in the Kalyanpur Porabosti slum area of Dhaka.
11 May 2026
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DB raid nets 8kg heroin and one of its own

30 April 2026
Serving constable among two remanded as police investigate alleged drug network across Dhaka and outskirts
30 April 2026
Geneva Camp in Mohammadpur

Geneva Camp: Drug trade thrives despite crackdowns

25 April 2026
A few yards away from the rear gate of Geneva Camp in Mohammadpur, several men were selling heroin, cannabis and yaba in broad daylight. Holding polybags full of narcotics, they called out to potential buyers as pedestrians walked past.
25 April 2026
MP Azim's daughter files abduction case

MP Azim Murder: Yet another investigator transferred

Two officers supervising the ongoing investigation into the murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar have been transferred.
23 June 2024
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Border killings continue despite BSF promise

Border killings continue despite India’s Border Security Force’s repeated assurance of bringing it down to zero.
14 June 2024
Fake note for sale online

Fake note for sale online

Hridoy Matobbar, 22, an employee at a computer shop in the capital’s Shaympur, learned counterfeiting from YouTube and mastered his computer skills to produce fake money at home. He formed a network and started selling counterfeit currency on social media.
8 June 2024
Brugmansia, from which scopolamine is extracted.

‘Devil’s Breath’: The world’s ‘scariest’ drug

Imagine walking down a quiet street, minding your own business, when a stranger approaches. They offer you a seemingly harmless business card, and you take it without thinking twice. Little did you know that the card was soaked in a drug, which would be absorbed by your skin within minutes.
31 May 2024
court orders to confiscate properties of ex-IGP Benazir

Benazir, Family’s 114 Acres: All bought while he helmed Rab and police

Former IGP Benazir Ahmed and his family members acquired almost all their land during his tenure as the chief of the police and Rab, according to property records listed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
25 May 2024
Personal data up for sale online!

Personal data up for sale online!

Some government employees are selling citizens’ NID card and phone call details through hundreds of Facebook, Telegram, and WhatsApp groups, the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre has found.
20 May 2024
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Cattle to have barcodes

For the first time, Bangladesh introduced an online cattle identification and registration system, providing customers with access to comprehensive information about the registered cattle through barcode scanning.
14 May 2024
Barcode for cattle

Barcode for cattle!

50,000 animals to come under online registration system
14 May 2024
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Trafficked to India for kidney harvest

A kidney-trafficking syndicate used to target underprivileged people and take them to India with fake job offers. Upon arriving in Delhi, the gang took these victims hostage and forcibly removed their kidneys.
12 May 2024
cybergangs selling genuine NIDs

Cybergangs now selling ‘genuine’ NIDs

Imagine someone ordering and taking delivery of your personal data -- national identity card information, phone call records, and statements from your mobile financial accounts – as conveniently as ordering food online.
9 May 2024
Arrest Symbol

Man used fake NIDs to buy 8 Dhaka flats

Joynal Abedin alias Idrish, a former salesman of a jewelry shop in Dhaka’s Mirpur, managed to have six NID cards bearing his name with the help of an outsourced employee at the Election Commission’s NID wing.
4 May 2024
Dhaka underworld Top criminals

12 drug kingpins amass Tk 178.44cr

The Criminal Investigation Department discovered assets worth Tk 178.44 crore belonging to twelve “drug kingpins,” including two brothers of a former Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi.
17 April 2024
Bangladeshis murder in Malaysia

It all happened before her eyes

Synthia looked at her mother Mojida Khatun Doly with hollow eyes. Still reeling under trauma, the 13-year-old barely spoke or moved as she laid on an ICU bed in the capital.
8 April 2024
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Family unhappy over CID’s progress

After around a year of being tasked with the investigation into the death of Fardin Noor Parash, a third-year Buet student, the Criminal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has yet to make any headway.
2 April 2024
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Tk 400cr transacted through hundi in three months

A group of Dubai-based hundi traders created an app, bought 150 “agent SIM cards” of different mobile financial services in Bangladesh, and transacted around Tk 400 crore -- meant to be remitted by Bangladeshi expatriates -- in the last three months.
28 March 2024
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Teen gang patrons still untouched

Seven years ago, the nation was shaken by the murder of an eighth grader named Adnan Kabir by a gang of boys about his age in the capital’s Uttara.
23 March 2024
No good news for consumers in Ramadan

No good news for consumers in Ramadan

With Ramadan just two days away, consumers will have to deal with the hiked prices of essential for the month of fasting this year.
9 March 2024
It was a bomb waiting to go off

It was a bomb waiting to go off

The Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall on the capital’s Bailey Road had all the catalysts needed to set off a blaze.
1 March 2024
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Rohingyas given NIDs, passports on forged docs

During the Rohingya influx in 2017, a girl along with her family moved to a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar from Maungdaw, a town in Rakhine state of Myanmar.
26 February 2024
EC cancels NID data deal

Fraudsters sneak into NID server again

Fraudsters have once again gained access to the smart national identity card information system, allowing them to exploit the system by acquiring sensitive personal information for unauthorised use in providing various government services through cloned websites.
19 February 2024

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