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Mohammad Jamil Khan

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17 senior cops may be sent into forced retirement

22 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Seventeen senior police officials are likely to be sent into forced retirement over alleged allegiance to the Awami League, family ties to the party, roles in manipulating the 2014 and 2018 elections, repression of the opposition, and corruption.
22 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Milestone tragedy: Probe blames human error, unsafe building

21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Human error arising from inadequate training and supervision was the principal cause of the Milestone school plane crash, while an unsafe school building and failures in planning and emergency response worsened the consequences.
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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‘We have become living corpses’

21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Almost every afternoon, Reshma Karim keeps a plateful of food on the table for her 14-year-old son, as she waits for him to return from school.
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Narcotics dept can work at borders, carry arms

19 July 2026, 00:00 AM
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) can now conduct its own raids, searches, seizures, arrests and investigations along the country’s borders and at land ports, airports and seaports under the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act, 2026.
19 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Cyber slavery: Bangladeshis forced into online scams in Cambodia

17 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Trafficking victim Tofail Ahmed said he was sold to a heavily guarded cyber scam facility in Cambodia.
17 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Bangladesh Cambodia Job Scam

Sold into cyber slavery / How Bangladeshi jobseekers are trafficked into Cambodia's scam compounds

16 July 2026, 10:00 AM
Hundreds of Bangladeshis have been rescued from Cambodia's infamous scam centres in recent weeks.
16 July 2026, 10:00 AM
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In search of work, caught in war

12 July 2026, 00:00 AM
30 Bangladeshis went to Russia on work visas; 4 dead, 2 missing after alleged war deployment
12 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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‘If I’m alive, I’ll come back’

10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
In the remote Laur village, under Brahmanbaria’s Nabinagar upazila, Nazmin Akter has been waiting many months for a call from her husband, Kamrul Hasan, who left home for Russia in July last year in search of work but ended up in the Ukraine war.
10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Evolution of cybercrime (part 4): Faces behind the crimes

Twenty-two-year-old Ratul Sheikh is a farm labourer.
16 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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Evolution Of Cybercrime: Women, the worst sufferers as usual

From November 16, 2021, to April 30 this year, Police Cyber Support for Woman (PCSW) wing of Police Headquarters (PHQ) has received around 4,094 cybercrime complaints.
15 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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Tale of vile discoveries

Gone are the days when extortionists and blackmailers would take advantage of people’s religious beliefs and superstitions and extort money from them by pretending to be “Djinn er Badshah” -- the king of genies -- over the phones.
14 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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Patterns have evolved, so have criminals

They met on a social media site for something that soon turned out to be an intimate relationship of sorts.
13 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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Gates electronic, immigration process still manual

Although authorities have installed electronic immigration gates or e-gates at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), the system still does not have all the planned functions.
10 June 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Pay up, or you’ll end up like Tipu’

Just a week before Eid-ul-Fitr, a businessman, who has shops at the capital’s AGB colony kitchen market, received a call from an internet-generated number.
9 June 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Raking in money by promising govt jobs’

Md Selim, owner of a community centre in Rajshahi, submitted a file at the education ministry last month, requesting for a promotion for his relative, who worked at a college.
7 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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To treat burn patients, time is of the essence

At least 100 people were burnt, and of them, 67 were being treated after the BM container depot fire in Chattogram. Due to the limited capacity in Chattogram, patients with serious injuries needed to be shifted to Dhaka through emergency helicopters.
7 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Flour balls for medicines!

They target medicines that are widely sold in the market, like Naproxen-Plus, Pantonex, Seclo, Monas and Finix. And they make the fake versions using flour and semolina.
6 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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Invading homes in seconds

It only takes 15 to 20 seconds for them to cut through a window or balcony and enter a house.
2 June 2022, 03:30 AM
Nursing college question leak

‘It took them seconds to steal a phone’

Aziz Mohammad was in Saudi Arabia for 33 years. As a hafez, the 45-year-old used to work as an imam at different mosques, and also as a driver.
21 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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DSHE question leak: Field agents were active to sell leaked questions, say detectives

A cashier and book-centre staffer of two government colleges in Dhaka have worked as field agents to find examinees who would purchase the leaked questions of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education’s (DSHE) recruitment test.
21 May 2022, 05:30 AM
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Conning customers with bank details

Around 1:10pm on March 12, Abu Bakkar Siddique received a call from “+16491”. The caller identified himself as an official of Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL).
19 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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DSHE Question Leak: More names surface

As investigation into the reported question leak of a Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) recruitment exam progresses, more names are coming out.
19 May 2022, 05:00 AM
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Defrauding 60 people a week!

Around 10:00am on March 23, Mosharaf Hossain requested Ansar member Ehsak Ali, who was on-duty at the children’s ward of national cancer research institute, to admit a patient.
18 May 2022, 05:15 AM
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DSHE staffers involved in recruitment exam's question leak: DB

Two employees of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) leaked the question paper of the recruitment exam for the post of “office assistant/computer operator”.
16 May 2022, 06:00 AM
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Using expats to smuggle gold

In the name of sending gifts to dear ones, several syndicates have been using expatriates to smuggle gold into Bangladesh.
13 May 2022, 05:30 AM

New outfit trying to emerge following JMB’s footsteps

A new extremist outfit, “Jama’atul Muslimeen”, has been formed, keeping strategic similarities with home-grown, banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
10 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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Extorting money, trading arms right from jail

 It costs Tk 100 to make a three-minute phone call from jail anytime. That’s not all. For the right amount -- Tk 5,000 to 7,000 -- any inmate can use a smartphone inside their cell for the whole night.
26 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Criminals graduating to cash deposit machines, fake telemedicine services: DB

Even the world of crime is witnessing innovations.
24 April 2022, 18:00 PM

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