September 14, 2022
88% bikers in road accidents don’t wear helmets: Study
Even though the number of motorbikes and deaths in bike-related accidents is rising sharply, only 34 percent of bikers wear helmets while driving, according to a recent study conducted by the World Bank and Buet’s Accident Research Institute.
September 12, 2022
Once a fraud, always a fraud?
Apparently, you can sack the man out of the bank, but you can’t take the banker out of the man!
September 11, 2022
Missing youths: Radicals out to swell ranks
Once again, youths are leaving their homes after being indoctrinated into extremism online, found law enforcers working to combat terrorism.
September 9, 2022
Remittance: Tk 25,000cr lost to hundi in last four months
At least 5,000 agents of different mobile financial services made suspicious transactions involving around Tk 25,000 crore, meant to be remitted by Bangladeshi expatriates, in the last four months.
September 5, 2022
Narcos hard to put behind bars
Although Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) shows rising drug cases and arrests in its annual round-up every year, more than half of the cases end up in acquittals.
August 26, 2022
How do you make a bus disappear?
Not a motorbike, not even a car, their target is stealing an entire bus.
August 24, 2022
New drugs, new challenges
Despite law enforcers’ tough vigilance, smugglers are trying to introduce new types of narcotics in the country and are doing business using social media.
August 18, 2022
August 17, 2022
Many militants still at large
Sanwar Hossain joined Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in 2000, influenced by none other than the banned outfit’s then supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman.
August 14, 2022
Want to buy a car? It’s only Tk 5,000!
Seized vehicles that are used for different crimes or have no valid documents mostly end up in auctions as scrap.