September 1, 2021
2 CID men ‘framed trader for murder’
Two police officers -- a special superintendent and a sub-inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department -- allegedly confined a trader to the CID headquarters for about three days and then...
August 31, 2021
Conned on ‘imo’
First, they collect an expatriate’s number through the online communication app “imo”. Next, they hack the target ID by sending an OTP (one-time password). They then spend a week observing...
August 31, 2021
Traffickers target slum women
Transnational human trafficking syndicates are now targeting women in city slums and selling them to brothels in India after promising them lucrative jobs.
August 18, 2021
Ready to face any untoward situation: CTTC chief after Taliban's Afghanistan takeover
Taliban forces have taken control of Afghanistan’s Kabul; the whole world is now observing the country’s political situation. But the question is, how will all this affect Bangladesh, a country...
August 17, 2021
August 17 countrywide series blasts :JMB now banking on other groups
Although law enforcers managed to weaken mainstream JMB after the militant outfit carried out a synchronised bomb attack across the country on this day in 2005, its members have raised their ugly...
August 15, 2021
Assasssination of Bangabandhu: Where are the five fugitive killers?
Twelve years have gone by since the trial of our history’s most tragic assassination has been completed, but the five self-confessed killers could not be brought back to the country for execution.
August 13, 2021
Neo JMB planned to make bombs with chloroform
The IS-inspired militant outfit Neo JMB was planning to make chloroform bombs for carrying out attacks in buses, classrooms, and at public places, claimed Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime ...
August 12, 2021
‘Furkan planned drone bombings’
His plan was to make drones and carry out attacks after attaching explosives with them.
August 8, 2021
Mehendiganj Killings: 4 lives lost to bloody rivalry
Four killings in 10 days -- first two on April 11 and then again on April 20.
August 6, 2021
Tale of an upazila in throes of extremism
It was mid 2017. A group of about a dozen young men in Araihazar, Narayanganj, suddenly started telling their neighbours that the way of saying prayers at their local mosques was not right.