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Dhaka road digging ban during monsoon

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 recruitment for Bangladeshi workers

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
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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
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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 visa cancellation for Bangladeshis

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
firearms

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
Bangladesh government firearms recovery operation

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
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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
jail

Inmates run illegal arms trade from jail

His name is Ali Akbar Prokash. But he is known as “Akbar the Great” among his cohorts for his expertise and innovative techniques used in illegal arms trade.
24 January 2022
Ansar Al Islam militants held

Bail of militant suspects remains a concern

Ariful Karim Chowdhury alias Adnan was arrested by police in 2015 over his involvement with banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji). He was then a senior officer in a private bank.
22 January 2022
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Jailed militants: Prisons not preventing their activities

Prison seems to have deterred militants little as they are continuing with their malicious activities with the help of a section of unscrupulous guards.
21 January 2022
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Officials prepare list of demands ahead of Police Week

Like every year, police officials are likely to come up with a list of demands for the upcoming Police Week, scheduled to be held from January 23 to 27.
21 January 2022

3 days, 40 ATM cards, 84 withdrawal attempts

Cloning credit card of citizens of around 40 countries, a transnational syndicate has been withdrawing money from ATM booths of different countries.
19 January 2022

Promising jobs, fraud gang pockets crores

When people started losing jobs during the pandemic, a group of fraudsters exploited the opportunity and started swindling the dispirited people by promising them a better life.
17 January 2022
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Scripted to a T

They first make some magnetic coins by melting copper wire.
15 January 2022
Ansar al Islam resurgence

NEO-JMB: Financier now allowed to travel abroad

Despite restrictions after her arrest, Dhaka’s Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal ordered the police to unblock the passport of Humaira Zakir Nabila, chief a “sister department” of Neo-JMB and it’s financier.
11 January 2022
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The Forbidden Forest Life

“Bullets can’t hit me! I led hundreds of gunfights, but the bullets always just whizzed past me!” exclaimed a self-assured Jahangir Shikari, former robber of the Sundarbans.
7 January 2022
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2 January 2022

Dating apps new way to extort money

Using dating apps like Tinder, Tantan and Mamba, criminals are extorting money from people by ensnaring and abducting them.
1 January 2022
Ansar al Islam resurgence

Ansar Al Islam: Lying low, continues recruitment

Militant outfit Ansar Al Islam has no plan to carry out any attacks right now but its recruitment and training activities are going on in secret.
23 December 2021
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Avijit Murder Masterminds: Holed up somewhere inside Bangladesh

Police officers believe that the two fugitive leaders of Ansar al Islam, for whose information the US State department declared a $5 million reward, are hiding somewhere in Bangladesh.
21 December 2021
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Return of the sea robbers

With their hands and legs tied, they were kept confined for three days straight. None of them got anything to eat, and when anyone would ask for water, only seawater was offered.
16 December 2021
Trafficking to Malaysia

Justice for Human Trafficking: A privilege now gets in the way

When migrant workers fell victim to labour trafficking and filed cases with the police, the law enforcers prosecuted or arrested the recruiting agents responsible for sending the workers abroad. 
1 December 2021
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A father in disbelief

Abdur Rahman Bhandari was struggling to accept that his son would never come back.
30 November 2021
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They’re all in it together

Some recruiting agencies, travel agencies, and airport employees have joined hands to send migrant workers abroad with forged papers, law enforcers have found during probe.
30 November 2021
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Fake Indian rupees from Pakistan to India: Bangladesh a stopover

A transnational currency forgery syndicate has been smuggling fake Indian rupees into India from Pakistan for a couple of years using Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as transit.
27 November 2021
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Meth trade controlled from Dubai: Law enforcers say after arresting 4

A transnational syndicate from Dubai is controlling the smuggling and supply of the synthetic drug crystal meth, known as “ice”, from Myanmar to Dhaka, according to law enforcers.
22 November 2021

They duped people with ‘cheap’ phones

A three-member gang from Muktagacha of Mymensingh that has been embezzling lakhs of taka by baiting people with fancy gadgets at low prices on bikroy.com has been nabbed by the police.
20 November 2021

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