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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

Fraudster’s 3-yr run ended by DB

It’s good to learn from mistakes, but it’s another thing entirely when the lessons from a mishap goes on its own tangent of more errors.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
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Deradicalisation Programme: Rab gets warm response on hotline

People looking for a window to shun the path of militancy have been calling a hotline number and writing to an email address the Rab has dedicated for its deradicalisation programme.
3 February 2021, 18:00 PM
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Scrap seller turns ‘liquor’ maker

Jahangir Alam was not even able to complete a school education.
2 February 2021, 18:00 PM
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Ex-univ teacher held for militant link

Jobless since the start of the pandemic, private university teacher Minhaj Hossain started seeking a job online and was soon drawn by the lure of an international militant outfit.
26 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Fraudster arrested by CTTC in capital

This is how the plot unfolded:
25 January 2021, 18:00 PM
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Standing up to the oath of sacrifice

It was early morning on September 15, 2019. Sergeant Md Shahidul Islam went to Abhaynagar Police Station in Jashore with members of the bomb disposal unit of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-6).
20 January 2021, 18:00 PM
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To light from dark spiral of militancy

The husband is an engineer and the wife a doctor.
13 January 2021, 18:00 PM
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Fake NID for Tk 1.5 lakh

A syndicate of brokers and some dishonest staffers of the Election Commission had been forging national ID cards for years due to a lack of strict monitoring and loopholes in the system, found a police investigation.
8 January 2021, 18:00 PM
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Uzi in Guise of Rifles: Take legal action against importers

The police headquarters has recommended taking lawful action against the arms importers who sold semi-automated Uzi pistols after importing them under the declaration of rifles.
6 January 2021, 18:00 PM

Deradicalisation to eliminate militancy

Like developed countries, as part of a soft approach to eliminate militancy, Bangladesh is going to start an institutional deradicalisation process.
27 December 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Once drivers, they now hijack buses to conduct robbery’

They were drivers by profession and used to work in public transport.
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM

DNC planning to buy phone trackers

With an aim to detect narcotics rings and the masterminds behind it, the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) has proposed to buy a mobile tracker system.
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Rising Cybercrime: Police hotlines flooded with complaints

“Please save me, I have no other option but to die.”
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Give couriers access to NID server

To stop narcotics smuggling through national and international courier services, the Department of Narcotics Control has recommended National Identity Card server access for couriers.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Airports being used to smuggle out yaba

Drug traffickers smuggled four to five stashes of yaba pills in luggages or shipping boxes out of the country through the airports every month in the last two years.
17 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Sinha murder pre-planned

Investigators have found that the murder of Maj (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan was pre-planned and they will mention it in the case’s charge sheet, which will be submitted to court soon.
12 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Tactical belts for cops

Bangladesh Police will be introducing tactical belts for officials involved in operational duty and patrols, as part of its efforts to better equip the force and make the policing system more efficient.
11 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Hefajat Mayhem 2013: Govt moves to resume probe

The government is resuming the long-stalled investigations into 62 cases filed over the mayhem by thousands of Hefajat activists in the capital and elsewhere in May 2013.
4 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Natural Disasters: Work going on for 5-layer protection

Uri grass is growing naturally along the shore of Bhasan Char. This type of grass provides protection to the shore and only grows in areas where there is no possibility of erosion, according to officials of the housing project there.
2 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Bhasan Char: 2,500 Rohingyas soon to be there

An isolated island around 52 kilometres from Chattogram city has now been transformed into a planned, modern township with rows of white, multi-storey buildings.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM

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