Shariful Islam

A police investigation has found direct links of six policemen with a yaba smuggling syndicate based in Cox's Bazar, say police officials.

On the morning of July 12, all the hustle and bustle of the busy Eid market at the capital's Science Laboratory intersection came to a standstill, at least for a few minutes. Five armed men jumped out of a white microbus and forced two men into the vehicle. It was around 10:30. The victims -- two brothers, as it later transpired -- shouted for help from inside the vehicle with black glass, but none of the several hundred eyewitnesses dared to approach the microbus.

The Saudi authorities this year stopped issuing Umrah visas to Bangladeshis on the allegation of smuggling of migrants into the

The number of human traffickers increased sixfold in the last two years, according to a police probe report.

The tourism sector is likely to receive a major boost as the government seeks to more than double the civil aviation and tourism

It was a Sunday afternoon. Two on-duty policemen were sitting on a bench on the sidewalk of Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in the capital's Karwan Bazar area.

Court officials cannot tell when a gold smuggler was punished last time. What they can tell though that there is no such instance in the past 10 years. This, they say, has contributed to the recent surge in the smuggling of the yellow metal.

More than 1,000kg of gold worth around Tk 450 crore was seized in the last one year by Customs Intelligence and other agencies.

Gold smuggling has gone remarkably up of late. Big haul of the most-sought-after metal makes headline all too frequently.

Families of the Pilkhana carnage victims may have to wait for two more years to see the killers punished due to the lengthy nature of the judicial proceedings.