Mohammad Jamil Khan

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.

Taking a deposit of Tk 3 lakh, he first gave the depositor an appointment for the post of an assistant teacher in a school with a monthly salary of Tk 18,000.

They invested the money they had and the money they could borrow in the hope of good business ahead of Eid but within a few hours yesterday, they lost everything.

From 2021 to 2022, the seizure of crystal meth increased by three times.

When the Road Transport Act-2018 was enacted over four years ago incorporating a system of demerit points on driving licenses for traffic violation, the authorities said the system would go a long way in ensuring road safety.

Partha Roy Chowdhury, a sub-inspector of Itna Police Station in Kishoreganj, was severely injured in a road accident on the way to a Khagrachhari court for testimony on October 14, 2020.

It was March 2019. The clock ticked 1:30am. An old man was lying in the middle of Dhaka-Mawa highway.

The Police Headquarters is planning to propose promotion of 550 police officials to superintendents of police keeping them in the offices they are serving now.   

As per the plan, the gang first arranged for entrance passes to get into the secretariat.