A trafficking racket behind ordinary phone numbers
3 October 2026
CID probe uncovers nine-member network; SIMs registered to others used for ransom
3 October 2026
Fears grow over cyber-scam gangs gaining foothold
26 September 2026
What began as a promise of a restaurant job in Cambodia turned into a nightmare for Mohammad Monnan Soyal, who was sold to a Chinese-run scam syndicate for $2,085, tortured and forced to participate in online fraud.
26 September 2026
Debt, torture and the dangerous road to Europe
26 September 2026
Md Uzzal Hossain, a resident of Chuadanga’s Alamdanga, borrowed money from NGOs and local lenders in 2022 to send his younger brother Md Ariful Islam to Italy through a broker.
26 September 2026
July uprising ICT case: Quader among 7 sentenced to death
16 September 2026
International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday sentenced Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and six other senior party and affiliated organisation leaders to death for crimes against humanity during the July-August mass uprising.
16 September 2026
Gas, Power: More factories may close if crises continue
11 September 2026
Acute shortages of gas and electricity are crippling production at over 400 factories, mainly RMG units, across major industrial hubs, with 202 facing the risk of a complete shutdown within one to two months if the crisis persists, according to the Industrial Police (IP).
11 September 2026
Aug 21 blast probe, trial: Skewed from the get-go
21 August 2026
Twenty-two years after the August 21 grenade attack, the case remains one of the most consequential unresolved cases in Bangladesh’s history.
21 August 2026
Inside house of horror
2 August 2026
From the outside, the ageing two-storey building inside the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-1 headquarters in Uttara appears almost idyllic.
2 August 2026
Martyr of July uprising: Son they never got to bury
28 July 2026
Police shot him at point-blank on the final day of the July uprising, then made his body disappear, stripping his elderly parents of the chance to bury their only son, secure timely justice, and receive the state compensation that could have lifted them from crushing poverty.
28 July 2026
Bhola Mayhem: No headway in probe
One month into the attacks on law enforcers, houses of Hindus and a temple in Bhola’s Borhanuddin upazila, police are yet to identify the masterminds behind those or the “hackers” who broke into the Facebook page of Biplob Chandra Baidya.
19 November 2019
A noisy nuisance
Walking on Dhaka streets is no easy task.
19 November 2019
A company of fraudsters
Mahbuba Akter Suma from Dhaka’s Bashundhara area became a friend of one Andrea Fabian, who claimed to be a Turkish national living in the UK, on Instagram last month.
6 November 2019
Road Transport Act: BRTA, police not ready for enforcement
Although the much-talked-about Road Transport Act, 2018 came into effect yesterday, it could hardly be enforced anywhere in the country due to a lack of preparation from the authorities, especially the BRTA and the police.
1 November 2019
Rumour of pir’s arrest brought on hell
A number of religious leaders, including imams, in Bhola had broken their promise to the local administration of taking all necessary steps to postpone the fateful October 20 rally.
24 October 2019
Hacker ‘not precisely identified’
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday told the BBC that they were yet to identify the person who had hacked the Facebook ID of Biplob Chandra Baidya, but Facebook authorities had given the Bangladesh government some idea, not any concrete information about the hacker.
24 October 2019
Bhola Hindus living in fear
Fearing further attacks, most of the Hindu families in Bhola, have stopped sending their children to schools and restricted their business operations, said the community leaders.
22 October 2019
He was the victim of a plot
The first phone call which awoke Biplop Chandra Baddya on Friday, right after lunch, may have been the most life-changing one he had ever received.
21 October 2019
Local admin, cops were ill-prepared
For two days, hate speech was spreading via Facebook messenger and the local administration and police failed to grasp the gravity of the situation and act accordingly, locals of Bhola’s Borhanuddin upazila said.
21 October 2019
Scarred by horrors of hate crimes
Sattya Prashad Das spent his whole life teaching religious education and humanity to his students, irrespective of religions and caste in his locality in Bhola’s Borhanuddin upazila.
21 October 2019
B’baria Murder Probe: Dead man talking
A former union parishad chairman in Brahmanbaria died on November 2 last year, but documents placed before a district court show he “gave statement” to a police officer as a witness in a murder case nearly three months after his death.
22 September 2019
Annual Police Medals: Home now wants to scrutinise list
A home ministry decision to examine the list of police medal nominees has created tension between the Police Headquarters and its supervising authority.
13 September 2019
Jashore Rape: Fourth accused yet to be identified
Police are yet to determine if the unnamed accused in a case filed over raping a woman in Jashore on early Tuesday is SI Khairul.
7 September 2019
Locals speak up against SI Khairul
The husband of the Jashore woman, who was raped allegedly by a police officer and his informant, was planning to open a shop with Tk 1.5 lakh the family arranged by selling a piece of land.
6 September 2019
Jashore Rape: Fear of backlash held me back
The Jashore woman who was allegedly raped by a police officer and his “source” in the early hours of Tuesday has said she did not name the cop for fear of repercussions.
5 September 2019
Biman Bangladesh: Gaining strength, yet losing market
Even with its aging fleet, Biman carried over 32 percent of all international passengers to and from Bangladesh in 2006-07. But now, despite having modern aircraft, its share has come down to about 27 percent.
23 August 2019
Looking back: Testimony to terror sponsored by state
The dreadful memories of captivity still send shudder down his spine. Police tortured Joj Mia in custody to make him confess to a crime he did not commit.
20 August 2019
In agony, they wait for JUSTICE
With about 1,800 splinters in her body, including two in her brain, what Mahbuba Parvin wants is quick completion of all the procedures paving the way for execution of those involved in the August 21 grenade attacks in 2004.
20 August 2019
JMB men on the loose a big concern
Many of the JMB men convicted in the August 17 series bomb blast cases walked out of prison after serving their jail term and it remains a big challenge for law enforcers to keep them under surveillance, say counterterrorism officials.
16 August 2019
Visa fraud gang busted
Tempted by the lucrative offer of chauffeuring in Kuwait, 30 jobseekers contacted a travel agency in the capital after noticing their advertisement in a newspaper in February.
2 August 2019