Bangladesh Coast Guard

Turkey Coast Guard chief meets Bangladesh counterpart

Turkey Coast Guard Command Rear Admiral (LH) Ahmet Kendir calls on Director General of Bangladesh Coast Guard Rear Admiral M Ashraful Haq at the latter’s office in the city’s Agargaon area.
Man held with 1600kg baby sharks

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard have arrested a youth along with 1600kg baby sharks, an endangered species, in Bhola Sadar upazila.
20 maunds venison seized in Barguna; one held

Coast Guard members arrests a man along with 20 mounds of venison from Baleshwar river in Patharghata upazila in Barguna.
12 held with over one lakh yaba pills in Cox's Bazar

Bangladesh Coast Guard yesterday detained 11 Rohingya men with 100,000 yaba pills from a fishing trawler on the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.
14 lakh yaba pills seized

Law enforcers, in separate drives, seized 14.40 lakh yaba pills worth about Tk 71 crore and arrested four from Cox's Bazar and Comilla in connection with the seizures.
14 lakh yaba seized from Bay

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard have seized 14 lakh yaba tablets worth about Tk 70 crore from the Bay of Bengal in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.
5 lakh yaba pills recovered in Cox’s Bazar

Coast guards recover five lakh contraband yaba pills worth around Tk 25 crore in Saint Martin’s Island of Cox’s Bazar.
6 Myanmar nationals held with 3 lakh Yaba in Teknaf

Lawmen detain six Myanmar nationals with three lakh contraband yaba tablets from an engine boat in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
4 Sundarbans ‘robbers’ killed in ‘gunfight’

Four alleged robbers are killed in what lawmen describe as gunfight during a joint crackdown of Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Coast Guard in the Sarankhola range of the Sundarbans under Bagerhat district.
Coast guard bill passed with provision of death penalty for mutiny

The parliament passes a bill, titled 'Bangladesh Coast Guard, 2016', with a provision for maximum punishment of death sentence for any involvement in mutiny in the force.
Meghna trawler capsize: Search on, no rescue

After a day passed, search is still going strong for the nine missing victims who went down with a trawler that capsized in Chandpur’s Meghna river.
Bill with death penalty provision for mutiny in Coast Guard placed

A bill, titled 'Bangladesh Coast Guard Bill, 2016', is placed in parliament having a provision of maximum punishment of death sentence for involvement in mutiny in the force.
2 held with 6.80 lakh yaba pills in Ctg

A joint team of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Chittagong Metro Sub-zone and Bangladesh Coast Guard recover 6.80 lakh pieces of yaba tablets from the outer anchorage of Chittagong port and detained two persons.
3,080kg hilsa seized, 161 fishermen jailed

Bangladesh Coast Guard seize 3,080kg hilsa and detain 168 fishermen for netting the fish defying a government ban on hilsa fishing from September 25 to October 9 to protect the fish during the breeding time.
600kg hilsa seized in Bay, 38 jailed

Coast Guard members seize 600kg hilsa fish and detain 38 fishermen for fishing hilsa illegally in the Bay of Bengal.
2 deer rescued, 140kg venison seized in Barguna

Coastguard members rescue two deer and seized 140 kilogrammes venison in Patharghata upazila of Barguna district.
100 fortune seekers rescued in Bay

Bangladesh Coast Guard seizes a Malaysia-bound trawler with over 100 Bangladeshi and Rohingya people near the St. Martin’s south-west channel in the Bay of Bengal.
20 rescued while being trafficked to Malaysia

Bangladesh Coast Guard rescue 20 Bangladeshi fortune seekers from Kutubdia upazila of Cox’s Bazar when they were being trafficked to Malaysia