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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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Even jail stay not free; some prisoners forced to pay for ‘better services’

Arrested for marijuana possession, rickshaw puller Abdul Kuddus landed in Dhaka Central Jail in October 2020.
4 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Transnational nexus bringing in Phensedyl

A transnational currency forgery gang joined hands with drug traffickers, and together they smuggle Phensedyl from India using fake Indian rupees printed in Pakistan.
27 February 2022, 18:00 PM
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E-gates at HSIA yet not operational

Seven months after the inauguration, the authorities could still not make the e-gates operational for e-passport holders at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, frustrating inbound and outbound passengers.
18 February 2022, 18:00 PM
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‘A transnational syndicate’

Between January 2 and 4, he attempted to withdraw money with cloned cards 84 times. The cards are from nationals of around 40 countries, including the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Spain.
7 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Ansar al Islam resurgence

Still stuck in a Bureaucratic Tangle

The proposal to appoint psychologists for deradicalisation programme remains stuck in a bureaucratic tangle.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Back into darkness

Abdul Hoque was among the several hundred drug traders from Brahmanbaria who had surrendered to police during an anti-narcotics crackdown in 2017.
30 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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Social media content: IGP wants a ‘community contract’

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed has suggested forming of a “community contract” in Bangladesh to deal with inappropriate contents on social media, especially Facebook.
25 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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Inmates run illegal arms trade from jail

His name is Ali Akbar Prokash. But he is known as “Akbar the Great” among his cohorts for his expertise and innovative techniques used in illegal arms trade.
24 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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Bail of militant suspects remains a concern

Ariful Karim Chowdhury alias Adnan was arrested by police in 2015 over his involvement with banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji). He was then a senior officer in a private bank.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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Jailed militants: Prisons not preventing their activities

Prison seems to have deterred militants little as they are continuing with their malicious activities with the help of a section of unscrupulous guards.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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Officials prepare list of demands ahead of Police Week

Like every year, police officials are likely to come up with a list of demands for the upcoming Police Week, scheduled to be held from January 23 to 27.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM

3 days, 40 ATM cards, 84 withdrawal attempts

Cloning credit card of citizens of around 40 countries, a transnational syndicate has been withdrawing money from ATM booths of different countries.
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Promising jobs, fraud gang pockets crores

When people started losing jobs during the pandemic, a group of fraudsters exploited the opportunity and started swindling the dispirited people by promising them a better life.
17 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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Scripted to a T

They first make some magnetic coins by melting copper wire.
15 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Ansar al Islam resurgence

NEO-JMB: Financier now allowed to travel abroad

Despite restrictions after her arrest, Dhaka’s Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal ordered the police to unblock the passport of Humaira Zakir Nabila, chief a “sister department” of Neo-JMB and it’s financier.
11 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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The Forbidden Forest Life

“Bullets can’t hit me! I led hundreds of gunfights, but the bullets always just whizzed past me!” exclaimed a self-assured Jahangir Shikari, former robber of the Sundarbans.
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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Too good to be true!

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2 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Dating apps new way to extort money

Using dating apps like Tinder, Tantan and Mamba, criminals are extorting money from people by ensnaring and abducting them.
1 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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Ansar Al Islam: Lying low, continues recruitment

Militant outfit Ansar Al Islam has no plan to carry out any attacks right now but its recruitment and training activities are going on in secret.
23 December 2021, 18:00 PM
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Avijit Murder Masterminds: Holed up somewhere inside Bangladesh

Police officers believe that the two fugitive leaders of Ansar al Islam, for whose information the US State department declared a $5 million reward, are hiding somewhere in Bangladesh.
21 December 2021, 18:00 PM

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