Mohammad Jamil Khan

They must be turning in their graves. Jahangir Hossain died one and a half years ago, Mansur Ali a year ago and Zilllur Rahman six months back. Now all these months and years later, police have charged them with vandalising vehicles and planning subversive activities.

Two bomb-disposal robots would soon be used in Bangladesh for busting explosive-stashed militants' dens where the risk of death lurks in every corner.

Banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, which remained below law enforcers' radar for many years, has lately been gathering strength through collecting funds mainly by robbery, counterterrorism officers said.

The IS-inspired “Neo JMB” reserved a brigade at Kalyanpur den in a bid to carry out three simultaneous follow-up attacks, after they had successfully carried out the Gulshan café attack, investigators said yesterday.

It was around 8:30am on May 14. Lopa Halder and her relative Sapna Hera reached Benapole international passenger terminal to enter India early.

After 230 years of using blankets as a substitute for pillows, inmates are going to get cotton-pillows to sleep on for the first time in the history of jails in Bangladesh.

At least eight authorised arms dealers in the country are involved in a syndicate that sells weapons to criminals, claimed law enforcers.

A revered flute player, Ustad AKM Sahabuddin Khan earned the title before his name as he teaches music at different institutions. He is also well-regarded as a gentle and distinguished personality in his home town Mymensingh.

Born and brought up in Chhoba Patti in Dhaka's Gendaria, Rahima used to sell small packets of ganja and heroin inside the squalid slum. Two decades down the line, she now owns at least 10 buildings, moves around in luxurious cars and has big, fat bank accounts.

As a police constable, Shahjahan Mia had committedly carried out his duties throughout his career, fighting the good fight against narcotics, and earned a reputation for his brave endeavours. Which is why it's doubly shocking that soon after his death in 2000, his family got involved in the drug trade.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has shortlisted top drug traders in the capital and their patrons including some linked to the ruling Awami League, and will launch a crackdown on them after further scrutiny.

It is a vote of the ruling Awami League in Khulna City Corporations today, exercising power play, as far as seen on the field throughout the city.

Ishtiaq Ahmed was a ragpicker 18 years back. But now, he is known as a big businessman among locals in Savar and Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital.

Investigators claim to have identified two persons who spread rumours in social media and incited violence during the recent Quota reform movement.

A syndicate is bringing yaba pills from Teknaf to Dhaka through a new route after the contraband tablets are smuggled from

To make money, some authorised arms dealers are allegedly selling legally imported and licensed guns to underworld criminals and their accomplices.

Foyzur Rahman, who attacked Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal on March 3, stepped into militancy listening to Jashimuddin Rahmani's sermons and reading contents of “Dawahilallah”, said investigators yesterday.

Investigators have claimed that a “sleeper cell” of a militant outfit was behind the knife attack on Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.

Around 9:30pm last Saturday, a police team stopped a motorbike in the capital's Palashi Residential Area. Alleged yaba dealers they had arrested earlier told them that a bike, registered in Chittagong, would have yaba pills stashed inside.

The controversial sonic device procured recently by the police to disperse protesters has the potential to damage nerve system of ears for good, according to doctors and records.