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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

There’s a new strategy out there

In an attempt to escape the prying eyes of law enforcers, drug peddlers across the capital have come up with a new strategy. They are now using the elderly as their carriers to transport consignments from one place to another.
23 April 2022, 18:00 PM

A box that can make dollars!

They enter Bangladesh with business or visit visas.
21 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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How criminals ‘rent’ bank accounts for illegal transaction

In the documents submitted to a bank, Bappy Hossain (26) mentioned that he’s a labourer. But an anomaly came up after analysing his national identity (NID) details.
20 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Where are the fugitive killers of Prof Humayun Azad?

Law enforcers have no clue about the whereabouts of top JMB militant Salahuddin Ahmed alias Salehin, a fugitive death row convict of Prof Humayun Azad murder case.
14 April 2022, 09:29 AM

Computer operator turns counterfeiter

Taizul Islam Liton did not continue his studies after the eighth grade. After dropping out of school, he started working as a computer operator in the capital’s Nilkhet area in 2004.
12 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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One-stop service for women, children

Around 10:30am on Friday, 28-year-old Amena Begum was found pacing in front of the duty-officer’s room at Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station.
9 April 2022, 18:00 PM

From student to ringleader

Back in 1996, Lokman Hakim alias Liton was still a student. But early on in life, he had a brush with law, when he abducted a girl.
7 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Tipu’s aide hired hitman, armed him

An aide of Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu hired the hitman and gave him a gun to have Tipu assassinated, according to the confessional statement of hitman Masum Mohammad Akash.
6 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Fake persona brings in real money

He was once a preacher, giving sermons at different waz-mahfils. At the time, he was merely a Jamaat-Shibir activist in Satkhira’s Kalaroa upazila.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Tipu murder - At least five took part in the killing mission: probe

At least five people took part in the killing of Jahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of Motijheel Awami League, in the capital’s Shahjahanpur a week ago.
30 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Don’t click that link!

Using the “add money” option of mobile financial services (MFS), several syndicates are looting money by hacking into users’ online bank accounts and credit cards.
28 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Mosque water the only alternative

It takes Anwar Hossain, a 60-year-old cook at a mess in the capital’s Farmgate, about an hour to make a trip to the nearest deep tube-well, get 10 litres of water, and return home.
25 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Youth held over vandalism of idols in temple

Police have arrested a man on charges of vandalising idols in a Hindu temple in the capital’s Khilgaon on Monday.
23 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Bangladeshi expats in Iraq confined, tortured, extorted by syndicate

Inside the torture cell, when there was no water, urine was offered as a substitute.
23 March 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Make sure you look poor, needy’

It’s an organised gang that mostly operates in government hospitals. It targets those that come for treatment from outside Dhaka, feed them sedatives, and loot their valuables as the victims fall unconscious.
21 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Ahsan Group embezzled at least Tk 130cr using religious clout: CID

It was corruption at a massive scale, undertaken by a single family.
16 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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TikTok: preferred app for youth crime?

Though a relatively new social media platform, TikTok has already become a preferred tool for criminals to carry out their activities, according to law enforcers.
14 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Scamming from a quiet village

In the quiet village of Faridpur’s Dumain, the residents do all kinds of work, from working in the field to running shops, for their livelihood. But many have chosen a more sinister path to make ends meet.
10 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Gone in four seconds

Believe it or not, there are some “professional” thieves out there who can unlock motorbike locks within four to five seconds.
7 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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He was fugitive in plain sight for 21 years

A man, sentenced to death for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was right under the nose of law enforcers in Dhaka for 21 years.
5 March 2022, 18:00 PM

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