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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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Unequipped Morgues: Tricky autopsy gives doctors hard times

Salauddin Khan, officer-in-charge of Banani Police Station, lost his life during the Holey Artisan siege on July 1, 2016. Police officials suspected he had suffered bullet injuries during the operation to free the hostages.
26 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Amphetamine Smuggling: Stopover Dhaka

A group of chemical traders in Chennai are found to be the kingpins of amphetamine smuggling from India through Dhaka, according to an investigation by the Department of Narcotics Control.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Chittagong Port cargo transport suspended

The art of cargo theft

A syndicate has long been stealing imported goods after breaking the locks of containers at the Mongla Port and selling those in the local market, a DB investigation found.
23 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Golden Monir

Govt changes, but his ‘magic’ goes on

The rise of Monir Hossain, also known as Golden Monir, over almost two decades was unaffected by regime change because he knew how to keep high-ups in the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha and the housing and public works ministry happy.
22 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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34 robbers give up arms, surrender

At least 34 members of 11 robbery gangs yesterday surrendered their weapons to Rab-7 at Chattagram’s Banshkhali Adarsha High School.
12 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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53 Uzi Pistols: Detectives looking for users’ info

Detectives are now gathering details of those who own Uzi pistols; military-grade semi-automatic weapons imported in the absence of monitoring by the authorities.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Sleepwalking into crime

He was caught red-handed while trying to dismantle an ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) from a booth of a private bank, and handed to police.
4 November 2020, 18:00 PM

‘No one questioned a Nawab family heir’

The man who pretended to be the grandson of Nawab Salimullah Khan, joined Muslim League in 2018. As proof of identity, he submitted his passport and national identity (NID) card, in which his name was Nawab Khawaja Ali Hasan Askari.
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM

DNC proposes round-the-clock dog squad check at Dhaka airport

With an aim to stop narcotics smuggling, Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) wants to have round-the-clock presence of their dog squad at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Complaints stack up against fake Nawab

Investigators are yet to ascertain the real identity of the reported imposter who was scamming people by posing as the grandson of Nawab Salimullah Khan.
2 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Faking his way to nobility

His plan was to grab Nawab Estate’s property by falsely identifying himself as a descendant of Nawab Salimullah Khan’s family. To get it, he had already filed five cases with land offices of Dhaka and Narayanganj.
1 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Military-Grade Firearms: Shady import worries cops

In the absence of monitoring, a section of licensed arms dealers are importing military-grade semi-automatic weapons in the name of rifles.
28 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Erfan Salim: Building on father’s murky legacy

After Monday’s arrest of Erfan Salim, son of Awami League leader Haji Md Salim, law enforcers have unearthed tales of his lavish lifestyle, which included 12 bodyguards and 30 to 40 young men at his beck and call.
27 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Ensnaring children in the dark web

Girls as young as nine to 15 are first targeted on different social media, especially Instagram, and then they are provoked by different sexual content.
19 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Stopping Drug Abuse: Govt to set up independent institution

As a part of intensifying and strengthening narcotics control across the country, the government has taken steps to form an independent institution to carry out dope tests in a structural manner.
3 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Anti-Human Trafficking Law: Amend it to curb cops’ raid powers

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has lately witten to Law Minister Anisul Huq seeking amendment to the trafficking prevention law, to potentially leash the capacity of law enforcers in raiding recruitment agencies.
1 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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‘Neo JMB’ rising again?

Militant outfit “Neo JMB” has declared its new chief and brought changes in the top leadership as the IS-inspired terror group is trying to get back on its feet by reorganising its structure.
28 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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Yaba trade: Back to business

A dozen listed Teknaf narcos previously hiding are now being seen taking over yaba trade again.
20 September 2020, 18:00 PM

Smugglers using modified motorbikes to smuggle it

They called it “Phensedyl bike”.
19 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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Neo-JMB leader confesses to killing missing man

A Neo-JMB leader has confessed to a court that a sleeper cell of the militant group killed a man whose photograph is uploaded on the website of SITE Intelligence Group.
16 September 2020, 18:00 PM

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