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3 human traffickers held in Dhaka

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have arrested three human traffickers in a drive at Khilgaon in Dhaka as they were planning to send some Rohingyas abroad illegally.
BNP leader Hafiz held

Law enforcers arrest BNP Vice-chairman Maj (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed from Dhaka Airport.
2 cases filed against Samrat

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) files two separate cases against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat with Ramna Police Station under firearms and narcotics control acts.
3 ‘drug peddlers’ killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

Three people, described as drug peddlers by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), are killed in an alleged gunfight in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.
Drug dealer held with yaba in B’baria

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained a man along with 3,840 yaba pills from Brahmanbaria town.
Tk 2cr cocaine seized from bus in Pabna

Rab seized about 340 grams of cocaine worth an estimated Tk 2 crore from an inter-city bus in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila on Sunday and arrested two people in this connection, said a press release issued by the elite force.
3 jailed for marketing adulterated medicine

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Dhaka jails three people for differed terms and fined Tk five lakh each for buying, reserving and marketing contaminated medicine for cancer.
Two killed in ‘gunfights’ in Gazipur, Bogura

Two men were killed in separate “gunfights” in Gazipur and Bogura early yesterday.
Painter turns conman!

The Rab has arrested seven members of a gang which used to “deceive people” in the name of selling Saudi Riyal at half price.
4 restaurants fined Tk 4 lakh in Dhaka

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) fines four restaurants Tk 4 lakh in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area for keeping food items in ”unhygienic condition”.
‘Drug peddler’ held in Dhaka

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members detain an alleged drug peddler along with 500 bottles of Phensidyl from Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila.
Businesswoman held, remanded

Rab has arrested a woman entrepreneur in a case filed under the controversial section 57 of the ICT Act for “spreading rumours and sharing provocative posts” on social media over the recent student protest.
'Please help us find him'

Wife of former commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Lt Col Hasinur Rahman pleads to the prime minister for directing law enforcers to find her husband, who has remained traceless for over a week.
Rab seeks authority to conduct random drug tests

Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday sought authority from government to conduct random drug testing on persons who it suspects of drug abuse.
2 ‘drug peddlers’ of Dhaka killed in ‘gunfights’

Two suspected drug peddlers are killed in separate incidents of gunfights with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Narayanganj and Dhaka.
PM asks Rab to fight drugs

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directs the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to continue its drive against drugs to save the country and children from its (drugs) clutches side by side with maintaining law and order to keep up development spree.
Rab pledges to quash leak-sters, ‘like militants’

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) pledges to crush leak-sters who are plaguing the country’s educational sector by leaking question papers of public examinations.
3 JMB men held with pistol, bomb in Rajshahi

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrest three suspected members of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi.
Rape accused killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

The fugitive accused of a rape case is reportedly killed in a gunfight with Rab at Chokoria upazila in Cox’s Bazar.
Missing BNP leaderarrested by Rab

Rab yesterday confirmed that it arrested BNP leader Anisur Rahman Talukder Khokon over allegations of plotting subversive activities around 20 hours after he went missing in the capital's Gulistan area.
Three JMB operatives blow themselves up

Three militant suspects were killed after they allegedly detonated suicide vests during an anti-terror operation by Rapid Action Battalion at a remote char on the Padma in Chapainawabganj yesterday.
This time, no trace of book importer

Rab members yesterday picked up Liberation War hero Habibul Alam from the capital's Eskaton and interrogated him for around seven
4 members of kidnapping gang held, 2 abductees rescued

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrest four members of a kidnapping gang and rescue two abductees from city's Mugda area
He plotted to fly plane into VIP houses

The Rab yesterday arrested a Biman Bangladesh Airlines co-pilot, who according to the force, was planning to carry out a suicide attack on the residences of government high-ups with an aircraft.
'Drug dealer' killed in 'gunfight'

An alleged drug dealer was killed in a "gunfight" between his cohorts and Rab in Chittagong city's Ice Factory Road area early yesterday.
2 killed in 'gunfights' with Rab, police

Two alleged criminals were killed in “shootouts” between their cohorts and law enforcers in Chittagong and Habiganj early yesterday.
'Model to militant'

Once a young model, Imam Mehedi Hasan turned into a militant leader about two years ago, claimed Rab.
Man dies in Rab custody

A man died in the custody of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) early yesterday, hours after members of the elite force arrested him at Naogaon.
Huge blasts at 'terror den' in capital

Casualties are feared in a flat in the capital's Darus Salam after a suspected militant allegedly detonated bombs last night.
3 suicide blasts at Mirpur ‘militant den’, says Rab

Heavy sounds of gunshots and explosions are heard from the suspected militant hideout in Dhaka’s Mirpur, over two hours after the law enforcers claimed that the “militants” holed up in den agreed to surrender to the lawmen.