No more road digging in Dhaka during monsoon
18 September 2026
The government has decided to stop digging roads in Dhaka during the monsoon and shut down illegal battery-rickshaw charging stations as part of measures to ease traffic congestion and disruption from uncoordinated development work.
18 September 2026
Malaysia job market reopening: Recruitment clouded by cartel worries
17 September 2026
Recruiting agencies fear associate agencies may wield little authority if they have to depend on principal agencies to process job orders.
17 September 2026
Biman’s fleet: Deals on 21 Boeing, Airbus planes likely within weeks
16 September 2026
Biman is preparing to sign deals for 21 more Boeing and Airbus aircraft within weeks, taking its unfulfilled orders to 35 aircraft.
16 September 2026
CAAB issues Air Navigation Order ahead of int’l audit
15 September 2026
The audit is scheduled to begin on October 26, and the dedicated aviation security ANO is one of the major issues auditors will examine
15 September 2026
UAE cancels visas of over 4,000 Bangladeshis, leaving many unable to return to jobs
14 September 2026
Bangladesh seeks diplomatic review as affected expatriates say cancellations came without explanation
14 September 2026
From web to waterways, hunt widens
11 September 2026
The hunt for firearms looted during the July uprising is set to expand beyond raids and checkpoints, with law enforcers planning to search water bodies, monitor online arms trading and increase surveillance of people linked to arms cases.
11 September 2026
Govt steps up efforts to recover looted firearms
10 September 2026
With the country heading towards local government elections, the government has launched a special nationwide drive to recover looted and illegal firearms.
10 September 2026
Advance screening of int’l travellers gets govt nod
10 September 2026
The government has approved in principle a plan to introduce advance screening of international travellers, allowing immigration authorities to identify potential security risks before passengers arrive in Bangladesh.
10 September 2026
Want to buy a car? It’s only Tk 5,000!
Seized vehicles that are used for different crimes or have no valid documents mostly end up in auctions as scrap.
13 August 2022
Lobbying on for top posts of police
Just over a week after a major reshuffle of the district superintendents of police, all eyes are on the police department in anticipation of possible changes in the top brass.
12 August 2022
Better call Galib!
Galib is a problem solver of sorts. He deals with police-related issues, like releasing someone from custody and ensuring that an accused is not beaten while in remand.
5 July 2022
Circular error in govt project: 492 officials not getting promised pay
Information service officers under a government project were supposed to draw a monthly salary of Tk 27,100, according to the job circular and their appointment letters.
5 July 2022
Fake visas, real miseries
Using fake visas, a transnational syndicate has reportedly been trafficking people to Italy and Canada. A section of airport officials allegedly supported the syndicate in exchange for Tk 4 to 5 lakh, by allowing fake-visa holders to go abroad.
4 July 2022
6 years of Holey Artisan café attack: Neo JMB on the wane, some groups active online
Militant group Neo-JMB, which carried out a deadly attack at a Gulshan restaurant in 2016, currently has no strength to carry out another attack, but officers and security analysts see several other groups as threats.
30 June 2022
So far so good
Around 11:00am yesterday, Sufia Begum, a resident of the capital’s Dhanmondi area, went to Dhaka airport to fly to Bangkok for tourism purposes.
30 June 2022
CTTC to start deradicalising militants in jail this month
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit is going to start a long-overdue process of deradicalising militants inside prisons from this month.
30 June 2022
Substance abuse in children spiralling
Children’s substance abuse has increased exponentially in the ten years since 2012 -- an alarming development for the society.
27 June 2022
International Day Against Drug Abuse, Illicit Trafficking: Danger of drugs ever-present
Despite tough vigilance and special drives by law enforcers, narcotics, especially yaba, smuggling increased in 2021, when compared with the previous year.
26 June 2022
Tortured while on video call with family
Find your fellow Bangladeshis. Bond over the sweet homesick feelings. Be friends. Invite them over for a meal.
23 June 2022
Their tactic: inhumane torture
Twenty-seven-year-old Apel Ali went to Iraq on February 26, 2018, and started working at a hotel in Baghdad.
22 June 2022
Evolution of cybercrime: It’s in the many technicalities
Last Friday, police officials collected details of a SIM card number that was used for hacking a mobile financial service (MFS) account.
18 June 2022
Evolution of cybercrime (part 4): Faces behind the crimes
Twenty-two-year-old Ratul Sheikh is a farm labourer.
16 June 2022
Evolution Of Cybercrime: Women, the worst sufferers as usual
From November 16, 2021, to April 30 this year, Police Cyber Support for Woman (PCSW) wing of Police Headquarters (PHQ) has received around 4,094 cybercrime complaints.
15 June 2022
Tale of vile discoveries
Gone are the days when extortionists and blackmailers would take advantage of people’s religious beliefs and superstitions and extort money from them by pretending to be “Djinn er Badshah” -- the king of genies -- over the phones.
14 June 2022
Patterns have evolved, so have criminals
They met on a social media site for something that soon turned out to be an intimate relationship of sorts.
13 June 2022
Gates electronic, immigration process still manual
Although authorities have installed electronic immigration gates or e-gates at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), the system still does not have all the planned functions.
10 June 2022
‘Pay up, or you’ll end up like Tipu’
Just a week before Eid-ul-Fitr, a businessman, who has shops at the capital’s AGB colony kitchen market, received a call from an internet-generated number.
9 June 2022
‘Raking in money by promising govt jobs’
Md Selim, owner of a community centre in Rajshahi, submitted a file at the education ministry last month, requesting for a promotion for his relative, who worked at a college.
7 June 2022