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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

Mehendiganj Killings: 4 lives lost to bloody rivalry

Four killings in 10 days -- first two on April 11 and then again on April 20.
7 August 2021, 18:00 PM
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Tale of an upazila in throes of extremism

It was mid 2017. A group of about a dozen young men in Araihazar, Narayanganj, suddenly started telling their neighbours that the way of saying prayers at their local mosques was not right.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
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19 ‘joined Neo JMB’ from one upazila

At least 19 youths have joined IS-inspired militant outfit “Neo JMB”, an offshoot of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from a single upazila of Narayanganj, believes counterterrorism unit.
3 August 2021, 18:00 PM
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Drug Trade in Geneva Camp: Six gangs vying for control after Ishtiaq’s death

Ishtiaq Ahmed, the top drug lord of Mohammadpur Geneva Camp, who was hiding for a long period, died in a hospital in India after being infected from Covid-19.
3 August 2021, 18:00 PM

‘Neo-JMB highly active online’

Watching videos online, members of the “military wing” of the banned militant outfit “Neo JMB” learnt to prepare improvised explosive devices (IED).
2 August 2021, 18:00 PM
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Traffickers abuse visit, on-arrival visas

Abusing  visit visas and on-arrival visas, a transnational syndicate has been trafficking people from Bangladesh to different countries, including the Middle East and Europe.
13 July 2021, 18:00 PM
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Neo-JMB wanted to make den in Bandarban

Kawsar Hossain, an explosive expert of the IS inspired militant outfit Neo-JMB, tried to build a militant den in the hilly area of Bandarban to   establish links with militants in nearby Myanmar’s Arakan.
12 July 2021, 18:00 PM
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A sly trick, indeed

A syndicate was found trafficking people to Europe in the name of sending them to watch football matches.
7 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Ansar Al Islam raised Tk 18 lakh through crowdfunding

Neo JMB forms new committee

With an aim to build a strong base in Bangladesh, IS-inspired militant outfit Neo JMB has recently formed a 20-member committee.
5 July 2021, 18:00 PM
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Darkness Befalls: Road 79

With the evening sun going down and the sky turning a dusty pink, a quietness descended at the Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1, 2016, towards the end of Ramadan that year.
30 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Moghbazar Explosion: Gas line leak may have caused it

Accumulated gas was behind the massive explosion at the ground floor of a three-storey building in the capital’s Moghbazar on Sunday evening, said officials and experts.
28 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Cruelties rising in chaotic time

Incidents of brutalities have increased alarmingly in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country in recent months with killing, sexual abuse and torture becoming rampant.
26 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Online Gambling: Crores siphoned out of country

An international gambling racket has been siphoning off crores of taka every day from the country and investing in cryptocurrencies, according to law enforcers.
19 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Cybercrimes against women rampant

Taking advantage of the naivety of some young women and children, cybercriminals are using social media to exploit, expose, blackmail, bully, and even traffic them in astonishing numbers.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Unholy nexus giving gas connections

Despite being not directly linked to Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, they would go to households to assist linemen and supervisors of the national gas distributor.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Bearing the unbearable

While he was still reeling with shock from the loss of his eight-year-old younger son, Mohidul Islam had to see his elder son taken away by police.
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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Hefajat to get a committee today

Hefajat-e Islam will announce today its new committee comprising of what insiders said would be the leaders sympathetic to the ruling Awami League.
6 June 2021, 18:00 PM

Raped, assaulted, locked up in foreign land

Many cannot even imagine the brutalities an 18-year-old girl endured for more than two months.
6 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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‘All about ensuring services to people’

With 13 districts, 42 circles and 96 police stations under its jurisdiction, Dhaka range is one of the most important institutions of police that not only ensures safety and security of people but also oversees and monitors services provided by law enforcers.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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LSD mailed to Bangladesh

The hallucinogenic drug called lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was being smuggled into Bangladesh from the Netherlands using the postal service for the last four years.
29 May 2021, 18:00 PM

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