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
Tipu’s aide hired hitman, armed him
An aide of Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu hired the hitman and gave him a gun to have Tipu assassinated, according to the confessional statement of hitman Masum Mohammad Akash.
6 April 2022
Fake persona brings in real money
He was once a preacher, giving sermons at different waz-mahfils. At the time, he was merely a Jamaat-Shibir activist in Satkhira’s Kalaroa upazila.
31 March 2022
Tipu murder - At least five took part in the killing mission: probe
At least five people took part in the killing of Jahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of Motijheel Awami League, in the capital’s Shahjahanpur a week ago.
30 March 2022
Don’t click that link!
Using the “add money” option of mobile financial services (MFS), several syndicates are looting money by hacking into users’ online bank accounts and credit cards.
28 March 2022
Mosque water the only alternative
It takes Anwar Hossain, a 60-year-old cook at a mess in the capital’s Farmgate, about an hour to make a trip to the nearest deep tube-well, get 10 litres of water, and return home.
25 March 2022
Youth held over vandalism of idols in temple
Police have arrested a man on charges of vandalising idols in a Hindu temple in the capital’s Khilgaon on Monday.
23 March 2022
Bangladeshi expats in Iraq confined, tortured, extorted by syndicate
Inside the torture cell, when there was no water, urine was offered as a substitute.
23 March 2022
‘Make sure you look poor, needy’
It’s an organised gang that mostly operates in government hospitals. It targets those that come for treatment from outside Dhaka, feed them sedatives, and loot their valuables as the victims fall unconscious.
21 March 2022
Ahsan Group embezzled at least Tk 130cr using religious clout: CID
It was corruption at a massive scale, undertaken by a single family.
16 March 2022
TikTok: preferred app for youth crime?
Though a relatively new social media platform, TikTok has already become a preferred tool for criminals to carry out their activities, according to law enforcers.
14 March 2022
Scamming from a quiet village
In the quiet village of Faridpur’s Dumain, the residents do all kinds of work, from working in the field to running shops, for their livelihood. But many have chosen a more sinister path to make ends meet.
10 March 2022
Gone in four seconds
Believe it or not, there are some “professional” thieves out there who can unlock motorbike locks within four to five seconds.
7 March 2022
He was fugitive in plain sight for 21 years
A man, sentenced to death for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was right under the nose of law enforcers in Dhaka for 21 years.
5 March 2022
Even jail stay not free; some prisoners forced to pay for ‘better services’
Arrested for marijuana possession, rickshaw puller Abdul Kuddus landed in Dhaka Central Jail in October 2020.
4 March 2022
Transnational nexus bringing in Phensedyl
A transnational currency forgery gang joined hands with drug traffickers, and together they smuggle Phensedyl from India using fake Indian rupees printed in Pakistan.
27 February 2022
E-gates at HSIA yet not operational
Seven months after the inauguration, the authorities could still not make the e-gates operational for e-passport holders at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, frustrating inbound and outbound passengers.
18 February 2022
‘A transnational syndicate’
Between January 2 and 4, he attempted to withdraw money with cloned cards 84 times. The cards are from nationals of around 40 countries, including the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Spain.
7 February 2022
Still stuck in a Bureaucratic Tangle
The proposal to appoint psychologists for deradicalisation programme remains stuck in a bureaucratic tangle.
1 February 2022
Back into darkness
Abdul Hoque was among the several hundred drug traders from Brahmanbaria who had surrendered to police during an anti-narcotics crackdown in 2017.
30 January 2022
Social media content: IGP wants a ‘community contract’
Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed has suggested forming of a “community contract” in Bangladesh to deal with inappropriate contents on social media, especially Facebook.
25 January 2022