How drugs find their way inside prisons
In a midnight raid on February 8, Jashore police arrested Ashraful Murad Rubel, a guard at the district’s central jail, for his involvement in drug trade.
1w ago
Teacher Recruitment Exam Question Leak: ‘Syndicate struck a deal with 200 candidates’
A syndicate made an arrangement with at least 200 candidates prior to the third phase written test for the recruitment of assistant teachers in government primary schools, offering to provide leaked question papers along with solutions.
1w ago
Certificate Forgery: Detectives now looking for source of ‘security papers’
Detectives are now searching for the source of the security papers that were used to provide forged BTEB certificates.
1w ago
Police to beef up security across Dhaka
Dhaka Metropolitan Police has been instructed to beef up security measures in police stations, outposts, and police establishments, alongside the introduction of an alarm scheme.
1w ago
Mohammadpur Geneva Camp: Narcos clashing over new heroin spot
Mohammadpur Geneva Camp, where narcotics trade is rampant, has been witnessing clashes every day since the day after Eid-ul-Fitr.
2w ago
Bailey Road Fire: Leaking gas, shorted electric kettle to blame
The deadly fire at the Green Cozy Cottage shopping mall on the capital’s Bailey Road, which claimed 46 lives on February 29, originated from an electric short circuit at a kettle on the ground floor café named “Cha Chumuk”.
4w ago
Bailey Road Inferno: Rajuk finds gross violation of rules
The owner of Green Cozy Cottage on Bailey Road, where a deadly fire claimed 46 lives on February 29, had no approvals for commercial use of the property.
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February 10, 2024
Building an empire on smuggled gold
Land sprawling across acres, mansions fit for royalty, and a fleet of gleaming cars -- the “brothers in crime” of the “Bhai-Bhai” syndicate have built an empire by smuggling gold through the Benapole border.
February 9, 2024
They trafficked people for organs
Police have arrested a member of a transnational syndicate that is trafficking women from Bangladesh to India and the Middle East.
January 28, 2024
Back to planning sabotage a day after release
Just a day after securing bail in five cases filed under the anti-terrorism act and coming out of jail, Mufti Jashimuddin Rahmani, chief of banned outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, started planning for sabotage activities in full swing.
January 27, 2024
Torture of 4 men in custody: Police probe finds addl SP, OC guilty
An investigation has found evidence that an additional superintendent of police and an inspector had physically tortured four men in custody at a police station in Shariatpur last year.
January 26, 2024
8.3kg cocaine seized at HSIA in biggest haul
Drug traffickers have been transporting cocaine through Bangladesh from certain East African countries to India for years, said officials at the Department of Narcotics Control.
January 24, 2024
When cops turn part-time robbers
On the night of January 23 last year, Abdullah Munshi landed at Dhaka airport from Dubai and took a CNG-run autorickshaw to go to his brother’s house in Khilgaon around 11:00.
January 23, 2024
Ansarullah Bangla Team chief out of prison
Mufti Jashimuddin Rahmani, chief of the Ansarullah Bangla Team, an Al-Qaeda-inspired militant outfit now known as Ansar al Islam, was released from the Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur on Sunday.
January 14, 2024
‘I’m not leaving my son’
“Fire, fire”. Sharmin Akter, 22, woke up hearing these desperate cries which shattered the stillness of the night in Mollabari Slum in Tejgaon yesterday. Her immediate thought was to save her one-and-a-half-year-old son, Nafi Hossain.
January 9, 2024
Six out of 12 city corporations yet to take action
Despite the national election being over, thousands of posters and banners of candidates are still hanging across the country, causing potential hazards to the environment.
January 8, 2024
Mostly peaceful but not festive
Dhaka, usually a cacophony of honking horns, blaring rickshaw bells, and the incessant hum of human activity, wore an almost deserted look yesterday during the national polls.
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