Mohammad Jamil Khan

Despite repeated use of courier services by transnational syndicates to smuggle drugs through Bangladesh to a third country, the government has turned down a proposal to use the National Identity Card server to verify the identity of the product sender.

Ansar al Islam is far from over.

Targeting users in upscale neighbourhoods, organised syndicates have been smuggling in high-priced crystal meth over the last few years, much to the concern of law enforcers and narcotics control officials.

The Department of Prisons has finalised a plan to vaccinate for Covid-19 inmates in 68 jails in the country.

Around 7:00pm on February 14, a group of five or six young girls aged between 14 and 18 were seen roaming around in front of Tejgaon level crossing.

A human trafficking syndicate formed a nexus with immigration police personnel at Sylhet Osmani International Airport and got a woman trafficked to the United Kingdom with a fake passport, a CID probe has found.

Criminals from at least six countries, including Bangladesh, have been found involved in the $81-million heist from Bangladesh Bank reserves with the New York Fed five years ago.

A Bangladeshi recently deported from France for his involvement in militant activities had plans of going to Syria to join Islamic State.

It’s good to learn from mistakes, but it’s another thing entirely when the lessons from a mishap goes on its own tangent of more errors.

People looking for a window to shun the path of militancy have been calling a hotline number and writing to an email address the Rab has dedicated for its deradicalisation programme.

Jahangir Alam was not even able to complete a school education.

Jobless since the start of the pandemic, private university teacher Minhaj Hossain started seeking a job online and was soon drawn by the lure of an international militant outfit.

This is how the plot unfolded:

It was early morning on September 15, 2019. Sergeant Md Shahidul Islam went to Abhaynagar Police Station in Jashore with members of the bomb disposal unit of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-6).

The husband is an engineer and the wife a doctor.

A syndicate of brokers and some dishonest staffers of the Election Commission had been forging national ID cards for years due to a lack of strict monitoring and loopholes in the system, found a police investigation.

The police headquarters has recommended taking lawful action against the arms importers who sold semi-automated Uzi pistols after importing them under the declaration of rifles.

Like developed countries, as part of a soft approach to eliminate militancy, Bangladesh is going to start an institutional deradicalisation process.

They were drivers by profession and used to work in public transport.

“Please save me, I have no other option but to die.”