Mohammad Jamil Khan

With only two days until Barishal city goes to polls, the division in the ruling Awami League is still the talk of the town.

The police’s Detective Branch recently arrested three members of a gang involved in scams targeting hundreds of people. Led by one Mostafizur Rahman, they embezzled at least Tk 13 lakh from over 350 people in the last six months through a ploy of “staging fake accident dramas”.

Twelve women who went to Saudi Arabia to work as house helps about six months ago returned to Bangladesh penniless yesterday after “being subjected to torture”.  

It all happened quietly. There were hardly any polling agents for Zaida Khatun. Even her supporters could barely be seen in the largest city corporation of the country. Even during the campaign, her posters were rarely seen.

A syndicate has been smuggling people from Bangladesh to nations such as Italy, France, and America under the pretense that they are employees of a non-governmental organisation.

Md Mamun is a butcher by profession who runs a meat shop in the Kadamtali area of the capital.

Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya, a relatively new militant outfit, was planning to recruit the Neo JMB leaders and members, utilising their links with another militant outfit Ansar Al Islam.

Applying innovative techniques, narcotics dealers are smuggling crystal meth -- popularly known as ice -- into Bangladesh from Myanmar.

International smugglers are bringing gold bars into Bangladesh through legal means and then smuggling those to India.

With advertisements on social media, fake note forgery syndicates are selling fake currency, assuring their clients that the notes cannot be detected by a blank eye.

Picture this, it’s a sunny day on the river, and cattle traders are peacefully making their way home after a successful day at the market. Suddenly, a group of robbers emerges from the water, armed to the teeth and ready to strike. They loot their victims and disappear into the depths, leaving chaos in their wake.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police is working to bring the whole capital under the surveillance of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras to tackle rising crimes like murders, burglary, theft, and robberies.

It was close to 10:00pm on April 11. As usual, people were busy buying daily commodities from shops at the capital’s Mohammadpur Geneva Camp.

An electric short circuit might have caused the fire at Dhaka New Super Market on Saturday, say investigators.

Record-setting temperatures are making everything dry and more flammable, and this has been making fire incidents more frequent and lethal, experts said.

The jail authorities, to protect inmates from the heatwave, are keeping the them under the shade of the trees inside the jail grounds for the majority of the daytime

Just 11 days after a blaze ripped through the Bangabazar shopping complex, another one yesterday gutted Dhaka New Super Market, causing losses to businesses and traders.

A faulty Titas Gas line might have caused the explosion at the seven-storey Café Queen building in the capital’s Siddique Bazar last month, say investigators.

They had a team to keep an eye on law enforcers.

The promise of a better life in a foreign land has long been a lure for many. But for some, this dream turns into a nightmare when they become targets of human-trafficking syndicates.