Incumbent chief Rear Admiral Ziaul Hoque transferred to the Armed Forces Division

Around 1.5 crore yaba pills seized over the past two years, he says

The Australian government will provide technical assistance -- including aerial drones as gifts -- to the Bangladesh Coast Guard as part of ongoing civil-maritime security cooperation between the two countries.

Bangladesh Coast Guard officials are already in talks with Indian Coast Guard regarding the matter

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government will transform the Bangladesh Coast Guard into a three-dimensional force by inducting new technology and modern equipment

Bangladesh Coast Guard rescued 39 people, including 35 Rohingyas, in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar in the early hours of today (October 4, 2022) after a trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal while trying to cross the sea to make an illegally entry to Malaysia.

Turkey Coast Guard Command Rear Admiral (LH) Ahmet Kendir calls on Director General of Bangladesh Coast Guard Rear Admiral M Ashraful Haq at the latter’s office in the city’s Agargaon area.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard have arrested a youth along with 1600kg baby sharks, an endangered species, in Bhola Sadar upazila.

Coast Guard members arrests a man along with 20 mounds of venison from Baleshwar river in Patharghata upazila in Barguna.

Bangladesh Coast Guard yesterday detained 11 Rohingya men with 100,000 yaba pills from a fishing trawler on the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

Law enforcers, in separate drives, seized 14.40 lakh yaba pills worth about Tk 71 crore and arrested four from Cox's Bazar and Comilla in connection with the seizures.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard have seized 14 lakh yaba tablets worth about Tk 70 crore from the Bay of Bengal in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

Coast guards recover five lakh contraband yaba pills worth around Tk 25 crore in Saint Martin’s Island of Cox’s Bazar.

Lawmen detain six Myanmar nationals with three lakh contraband yaba tablets from an engine boat in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Four alleged robbers are killed in what lawmen describe as gunfight during a joint crackdown of Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Coast Guard in the Sarankhola range of the Sundarbans under Bagerhat district.

The parliament passes a bill, titled 'Bangladesh Coast Guard, 2016', with a provision for maximum punishment of death sentence for any involvement in mutiny in the force.

After a day passed, search is still going strong for the nine missing victims who went down with a trawler that capsized in Chandpur’s Meghna river.

A bill, titled 'Bangladesh Coast Guard Bill, 2016', is placed in parliament having a provision of maximum punishment of death sentence for involvement in mutiny in the force.

A joint team of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Chittagong Metro Sub-zone and Bangladesh Coast Guard recover 6.80 lakh pieces of yaba tablets from the outer anchorage of Chittagong port and detained two persons.

Bangladesh Coast Guard seize 3,080kg hilsa and detain 168 fishermen for netting the fish defying a government ban on hilsa fishing from September 25 to October 9 to protect the fish during the breeding time.