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17 senior cops may be sent into forced retirement

22 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Seventeen senior police officials are likely to be sent into forced retirement over alleged allegiance to the Awami League, family ties to the party, roles in manipulating the 2014 and 2018 elections, repression of the opposition, and corruption.
22 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Milestone tragedy: Probe blames human error, unsafe building

21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Human error arising from inadequate training and supervision was the principal cause of the Milestone school plane crash, while an unsafe school building and failures in planning and emergency response worsened the consequences.
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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‘We have become living corpses’

21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Almost every afternoon, Reshma Karim keeps a plateful of food on the table for her 14-year-old son, as she waits for him to return from school.
21 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Narcotics dept can work at borders, carry arms

19 July 2026, 00:00 AM
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) can now conduct its own raids, searches, seizures, arrests and investigations along the country’s borders and at land ports, airports and seaports under the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act, 2026.
19 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Cyber slavery: Bangladeshis forced into online scams in Cambodia

17 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Trafficking victim Tofail Ahmed said he was sold to a heavily guarded cyber scam facility in Cambodia.
17 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Bangladesh Cambodia Job Scam

Sold into cyber slavery / How Bangladeshi jobseekers are trafficked into Cambodia's scam compounds

16 July 2026, 10:00 AM
Hundreds of Bangladeshis have been rescued from Cambodia's infamous scam centres in recent weeks.
16 July 2026, 10:00 AM
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In search of work, caught in war

12 July 2026, 00:00 AM
30 Bangladeshis went to Russia on work visas; 4 dead, 2 missing after alleged war deployment
12 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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‘If I’m alive, I’ll come back’

10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
In the remote Laur village, under Brahmanbaria’s Nabinagar upazila, Nazmin Akter has been waiting many months for a call from her husband, Kamrul Hasan, who left home for Russia in July last year in search of work but ended up in the Ukraine war.
10 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Dhaka footpaths, a money-spinner for extortionists

On the footpath next to the General Post Office in the capital, Sohel Howlader sells children’s clothes from a small table.
12 June 2024, 18:00 PM

AL leader knew about his murder but kept mum

Investigators have found evidence that Saidul Karim Mintu, general secretary of Jhenaidah Awami League, knew about MP Anwarul Azim Anar’s murder before it was made public.
12 June 2024, 18:00 PM
AL leader mintu assures killers payment for mp anar murder

MP Azim Murder: Police detain Jhenaidah AL general secy

Multiple leaders of Jhenaidah Awami League were aware of MP Anwarul Azim Anar’s murder before the government’s announcement.
11 June 2024, 18:00 PM
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Submachine gun in the hands of an ‘unstable’ cop?

SMT-9 submachine gun -- a sophisticated weapon that can wreak havoc in the wrong hands.
10 June 2024, 18:00 PM
AL leader mintu assures killers payment for mp anar murder

MP Azim murder: Another AL leader may be involved

At least one other top leader of Jhenaidah Awami League may have been involved in the murder of MP Anwarul Azim Anar’s at a New Town flat in Kolkata, investigators said.
10 June 2024, 18:00 PM
999 calls surge, reflect reliability

999 calls surge, reflect reliability

After realising her five-year-old child was raped by her neighbour in Bagerhat’s Brahmankathi area, a mother called the National Emergency Helpline-999 at March 3 noon.
9 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Cop shot dead by colleague in Baridhara diplomatic zone

Cop kills cop: Detectives have no clue about motive

Close-circuit television camera footage revealed details of an on-duty police constable killing another cop near the Palestinian embassy in the capital’s Baridhara Saturday night.
9 June 2024, 18:00 PM
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MP Azim Murder: AL leader Babu secretly met one of the killers

An Awami League leader of Jhenidah met one of the killers of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar to learn about the details of the abduction and murder, police said.
9 June 2024, 18:00 PM
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Now political rivalry adds to the murder mystery

Gold smuggling, honey trap and narcotics, lots of theories have been floating around since the last few weeks over the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar in a Kolkata flat.
8 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Ansar Al Islam raised Tk 18 lakh through crowdfunding

Ansar Al Islam raised Tk 18 lakh through crowdfunding

Ansar Al Islam, a militant group inspired by al-Qaeda, has raised Tk 18 lakh through crowdfunding within a few months.
5 June 2024, 18:00 PM
MP Azim murder

The murder plan was finalised at a Kolkata eatery

It was Tanvir Bhuiyan who lured the Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar to Kolkata as part of a mission to kill him.
4 June 2024, 18:00 PM
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MP Azim Murder: Celesty posed as mastermind’s wife to rent flat

Celesty Rahman went to Kolkata and posed as the wife of Aktaruzzaman, alleged mastermind of MP Anwarul Azim Anar murder, to rent the flat where the lawmaker was killed.
3 June 2024, 21:30 PM
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MP Azim Murder: Siam texted from MP’s phone after his killing

Siam Hossain, a suspect in the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar, went to India via Nepal and returned to the Himalayan country after killing the lawmaker at a Kolkata flat.
2 June 2024, 18:00 PM
AL leader mintu assures killers payment for mp anar murder

MP Azim Murder: Azim ‘taxed’ every gold bar smuggled

Anwarul Azim Anar, the recently slain MP of Jhenaidah-4, was a powerful figure in the criminal underworld with his tight grip over a gold smuggling racket as well as the narcotics trafficking in the region, investigators say.
1 June 2024, 18:00 PM
MP Anwarul Azim Anar's murder plot

MP Azim Murder: ‘Celesty was supposed to receive Azim at Kolkata flat’

Celesty Rahman, a friend of Aktaruzzaman, alleged mastermind of the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anawarul Azim Anar, was responsible for receiving the lawmaker at a flat in Kolkata’s New Town on May 13.
1 June 2024, 18:00 PM
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MP Azim Murder: His ‘friends’ played a role

Investigators are now analysing the roles of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar’s relatives and friends to find further clues about his gruesome murder in Kolkata.
30 May 2024, 18:00 PM
AL leader mintu assures killers payment for mp anar murder

MP Azim Murder: Mastermind, hired gun are relatives

Suspects Aktaruzzaman and Amanullah in the lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar murder case are relatives.
29 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Former police chief Benazir Ahmed awards and wealth accumulation

Wealth, awards piled up as he grew in power

Former police chief Benazir Ahmed kept receiving prestigious police awards even as he and his family continued to accumulate huge wealth, buying acre upon acre of land and other properties in different parts of the country.
28 May 2024, 18:00 PM
AL leader mintu assures killers payment for mp anar murder

MP Azim Murder: The kingpins may never be tracked down

Some members of a gold smuggling racket were likely behind the killing of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar, but the assailants had contact with Aktaruzzaman only, said an officer of West Bengal CID.
28 May 2024, 18:00 PM
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MP Azim murder: Body parts found in septic tank of Kolkata flat

Cops to conduct DNA test to confirm identity
28 May 2024, 13:58 PM

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