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  • Gunfight

    3 Rohingya yaba smugglers killed in gunfight: BGB

    Three alleged Rohingya yaba smugglers have been killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

  • Yaba smuggling from India

    ‘Indian Yaba’ getting in

    He is known as a rakhal (cowboy) as he brings in cattle smuggled from across the border. But what the 36-year-old says about his additional source of earning is no less startling. The inhabitant of Shibganj upazila in bordering Chapainawabganj district is a carrier of mad drug.

  • Yaba Pills

    1 held with 9,910 yaba in Chattogram

    Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained an alleged drug peddler with 9,910 pieces of yaba pills from Kotwali area of Chattogram city.

  • Man held with 1,170 yaba pills inside stomach at Dhaka airport

    Law enforcers detain one person with 1,170 yaba pills hidden inside his stomach at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

  • Passenger with yaba in stomach held at Dhaka airport

    A passenger along with 4,500 yaba tablets inside his stomach is detained at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

  • Yaba Pills

    Five lakh yaba pills seized in Patuakhali

    Bangladesh Coast Guard has seized 500,000 yaba pills and held two men from the mouth of the river Ramnabad on the Bay of Bengal in Patuakhali.

  • Yaba Pills

    Five lakh yaba pills seized in Patuakhali

    Bangladesh Coast Guard has seized 500,000 yaba pills and held two men from the mouth of the river Ramnabad on the Bay of Bengal in Patuakhali.

  • Press charge if AL leader works against narco drive

    Charges should be pressed against any ruling party men who would lobby for not taking action against drug dealers, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder told a views-exchange meeting yesterday.

  • Crazy pills spill via new routes

    A new strategy of yaba smuggling, involving fresh routes and hundi traders, has been at work since the surrender of 102 godfathers and dealers in Cox's Bazar in February.

  • Choppers may be used to smuggle yaba

    Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has asked private helicopter operators “to be more cautious” after receiving information that choppers were being used for smuggling yaba pills.

  • Yaba tablets seized in Cox’s Bazar

    3 held with 8.45 lakh yaba pills

    The Rapid Action Battalion-1 yesterday claimed to have arrested three members of a yaba smuggling syndicate which brought the crazy drugs to Dhaka from Myanmar using a new sea route via Patuakhali for the last one year.

  • yaba tablets in stomach

    2 held with 3,000 yaba in stomach

    Two passengers are held with three thousand pieces of yaba tablets inside their stomachs at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

  • Bangladesh High Court

    Close N'ganj OC: HC to IGP

    The High Court directs the inspector general of police (IGP) to close the officer-in-charge (OC) of Narayanganj Sadar Police Station Qamrul Islam for his alleged involvement in dealing with yaba tablets.

  • Yaba Smuggling in Cox's Bazar

    Yaba Smuggling in Cox's Bazar: 500 agents now take full control

    A syndicate of around 500 paid agents and carriers, who once oversaw yaba smuggling on behalf of their godfathers and dealers, has now taken control of the trade in Teknaf and Ukhia, the entry points of the drug to Bangladesh.

  • Yaba coming in Bangladesh via new route

    Yaba coming in via new route

    Drug dealers are now smuggling yaba from Myanmar into Bangladesh through the Indian border with three districts in greater Sylhet using Mizoram, Meghalaya and Assam as the conduit route.

  • Myanmar ‘drug smuggler’ killed in ‘gunfight’ with BGB

    A female “drug smuggler” from Myanmar is killed and four others injured in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early.

  • 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.

  • Yaba worth Tk 3.20cr seized in Ctg, 2 held

    Rapid Action Battalion members arrests two people with 80,000 yaba tablets worth around Tk 3.20 crore in Chittagong city.

  • Tk 11cr yaba seized in Cox’s Bazar, 5 held

    Rapid Action Battalion seizes 2.70 lakh pieces of contraband yaba tablets worth around Tk 11 crore and detains five people in Cox’s Bazar ahead of Eid.

  • Law enforcers in Yaba trade

    We are shocked that a syndicate of members of the police force were reportedly involved in smuggling Yaba on Cox's Bazar-Dhaka route.

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