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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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NID Card Forgery: EC officials compromising server security

Many field level polls officials share passwords of a software with data entry officers for corrections to national identity cards, which ultimately gives criminals the scope for forging the cards.
15 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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Threats to Prisons: Caller might have used VoIP to mask identity

The anonymous caller, who had threatened jail authorities of “snatching away militant inmates from jails”, might have used a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to make the call, police suspect.
15 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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NID forgery: EC officials compromising server security

Sources say some data entry employees sell criminals passwords
15 September 2020, 17:02 PM
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Threats send prisons on high alert nationwide

The prison authority has beefed up security across the country following a threats from some unidentified miscreants over phone and letters of “snatching away militant inmates” from jails.
14 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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Sex traffickers active in myriad guises

Manager of a well-known film actress and at least couple of choreographers are allegedly involved in trafficking girls to Dubai.
12 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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Unstoppable Yaba: New route, new colour

The constantly evolving narcotics rackets in Cox’s Bazar have been opening up new fronts to smuggle yaba pills into Bangladesh from Myanmar, largely avoiding Teknaf due to increased vigilance by law enforcers there.
12 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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Fire lasted just seconds

Cooking gas trapped in the Narayanganj mosque was ignited by a spark at an overloaded circuit-breaker, and the inferno didn’t last more than a couple of seconds, explosives experts said yesterday.
7 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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Gas leak behind mosque blast

Death toll from Friday’s explosion in the Narayanganj mosque reached 20 last night with fire officials suspecting that the incident took place due to leak in a gas pipeline that runs beneath the mosque.
5 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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Trafficking to Kuwait: Investigators looking for MP Shahid’s brother

They used to contact people from across the country through brokers and charge each of them Tk 5 lakh to Tk 7 lakh for sending them to Kuwait.
28 August 2020, 18:00 PM
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Refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar: Rohingyas tangled up in crimes

Three years on, crimes like murder, abduction, extortion and narcotics smuggling continue to multiply at the world’s biggest refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar.
26 August 2020, 18:00 PM
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Chakaria ‘Shootout’: Was Jafar a drug dealer?

Md Jafar, who was killed in a police “shootout” along with two others in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar on July 31, used to run a drug syndicate in Bandarban, Patiya and Chakaria, intelligence sources say.
18 August 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Tk 5 lakh for each murder’

He started as a “shooter”, when he was 18 years old.
14 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Looted from Dhaka, sold in Chattogram

Divided in multiple groups, they mostly targeted shopping malls in Dhaka -- each team assigned a specific task.
12 August 2020, 18:00 PM
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5 ‘members of Neo-JMB cell’ arrested

They planned to draw the attention of the Islamic State by carrying out several explosive attacks ahead of the Eid-ul-Adha.
12 August 2020, 18:00 PM
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‘Drama by cops’ gone wrong

Some policemen took the bomb inside Pallabi Police Station to stage a bomb-recovery and frame someone in a case.
10 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Covid-19 Pandemic: Cybercriminals on the prowl

With people mostly staying home and spending more time online due to the ongoing pandemic, a group of criminals are active and swindling crores of taka through duping them on social media.
9 August 2020, 18:00 PM
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DMP to probe whether bomb was handled properly

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday formed a three-member committee to investigate the explosion incident inside the capital’s Pallabi Police Station on early Wednesday.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
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Crime Rising Amid Pandemic: Cops blame joblessness, income drop

After a sharp fall in crime rate during the first few days of coronavirus pandemic, crimes like theft, robbery and mugging have recently taken an upward turn.
27 July 2020, 18:00 PM
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He used power of media to build his empire

Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim had used the “power of media” to be on good terms with politicians, bureaucrats and law enforcers to build his criminal network, detectives said.
26 July 2020, 18:00 PM
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Intel on Possible ‘Militant Attack’: New security alert before Eid

The police have received intelligence that militant outfit “Neo JMB” could try to carry out attacks centring the Eid-ul-Azha.
26 July 2020, 18:00 PM

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