Mohammad Jamil Khan

Two police officers -- a special superintendent and a sub-inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department -- allegedly confined a trader to the CID headquarters for about three days and then framed him in a murder case as he refused to pay them extortion money, according to a complaint the trader filed with the PMO.

Transnational human trafficking syndicates are now targeting women in city slums and selling them to brothels in India after promising them lucrative jobs.

First, they collect an expatriate’s number through the online communication app “imo”. Next, they hack the target ID by sending an OTP (one-time password). They then spend a week observing conversations made from the ID.

Taliban forces have taken control of Afghanistan’s Kabul; the whole world is now observing the country’s political situation. But the question is, how will all this affect Bangladesh, a country that is so intertwined with the region’s issues?

Although law enforcers managed to weaken mainstream JMB after the militant outfit carried out a synchronised bomb attack across the country on this day in 2005, its members have raised their ugly heads on a few occasions after absorbing into like-minded terror groups.

Twelve years have gone by since the trial of our history’s most tragic assassination has been completed, but the five self-confessed killers could not be brought back to the country for execution.

The IS-inspired militant outfit Neo JMB was planning to make chloroform bombs for carrying out attacks in buses, classrooms, and at public places, claimed Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) officials.

His plan was to make drones and carry out attacks after attaching explosives with them.

Four killings in 10 days -- first two on April 11 and then again on April 20.

It was mid 2017. A group of about a dozen young men in Araihazar, Narayanganj, suddenly started telling their neighbours that the way of saying prayers at their local mosques was not right.

At least 19 youths have joined IS-inspired militant outfit “Neo JMB”, an offshoot of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from a single upazila of Narayanganj, believes counterterrorism unit.

Ishtiaq Ahmed, the top drug lord of Mohammadpur Geneva Camp, who was hiding for a long period, died in a hospital in India after being infected from Covid-19.

Watching videos online, members of the “military wing” of the banned militant outfit “Neo JMB” learnt to prepare improvised explosive devices (IED).

Abusing  visit visas and on-arrival visas, a transnational syndicate has been trafficking people from Bangladesh to different countries, including the Middle East and Europe.

Kawsar Hossain, an explosive expert of the IS inspired militant outfit Neo-JMB, tried to build a militant den in the hilly area of Bandarban to   establish links with militants in nearby Myanmar’s Arakan.

A syndicate was found trafficking people to Europe in the name of sending them to watch football matches.

With an aim to build a strong base in Bangladesh, IS-inspired militant outfit Neo JMB has recently formed a 20-member committee.

With the evening sun going down and the sky turning a dusty pink, a quietness descended at the Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1, 2016, towards the end of Ramadan that year.

Accumulated gas was behind the massive explosion at the ground floor of a three-storey building in the capital’s Moghbazar on Sunday evening, said officials and experts.

Incidents of brutalities have increased alarmingly in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country in recent months with killing, sexual abuse and torture becoming rampant.