Mohammad Jamil Khan

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Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday sought assistance from the city’s ward councillors to ensure the presence of voters in the January 7 national election.

A transnational syndicate embezzled a significant amount of money by blackmailing Bangladeshi university and college students, as well as businessmen.

As a measure to prevent sabotage activities ahead of the national election, law enforcers have been instructed to beef up security measures across the country.

As a measure to prevent sabotage activities ahead of the national election, law enforcers have been instructed to beef up security measures across the country

Amid increasing acts of sabotage, Bangladesh Railway has identified 350 vulnerable places on the nearly 3,000 kilometres of railway lines across the country.

Mainuddin Manik, an attendant of Mohanganj Express,  was closing the door of a carriage when he saw the flames in the coupling between the Ja and Jha carriages.

Nuru Islam Nuru is a truck driver by profession, travelling across the country to deliver products. But Nuru, a seemingly unsuspecting individual, has been utilising his delivery ventures as a front for conducting robberies with his six-to-eight-member gang.

Authorities have made primary lists of upazila nirbahi officers and officers-in-charge of police stations to transfer in the first phase of the Election Commission’s move to reposition all UNOs and OCs ahead of the January 7 national election.

The BNP appears to be in for even tougher times in the next few weeks with the government going all out to make sure the party does not gain momentum in its oust-the-government movement.

In a bid to enhance security measures for the metro rail, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) police wing has proposed the installation of luggage scanners at all stations.

Despite the prime minister’s directive to form a dedicated police unit to ensure metro rail’s security, the Metro Rail (MRT) Police has gained approval to operate only as a wing of Police Headquarters.

In a bid to enhance security measures for the metro rail, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) police wing has proposed the installation of luggage scanners at all stations

Exactly a year ago from today, two death row convict militants, Abu Siddiq Sohel and Moinul Hasan Shamim, escaped from a Dhaka court with help from their associates.

Bus owners have refrained from operating long-route buses due to insufficient security measures on highways amid the ongoing blockade and hartal called by BNP and other parties.

An organised syndicate has been distributing counterfeit injections in the market, which are needed for kidney dialysis, newborn jaundice prevention, and vitamin-K deficiency treatment.

The National Security Council yesterday directed law enforcement and intelligence agencies to be on alert so that no one can spread any disinformation on social media centring the next national election.

In July 2017, Ramjan, a member of a criminal gang operating in Kamrangirchar, killed his rival Manjur Hossain over establishing supremacy in narcotics trade.

With the national election just around the corner, both pro-government and anti-government elements are out to manipulate public opinion through a vigorous campaign on social media platforms and private messaging apps, turning them into hotbeds of spin doctoring, disinformation and fake news.

As the BNP and its like-minded parties intensify their street agitation, the government prepares to go for a stricter crackdown on the opposition activists to quash the anti-government movement.