Mohammad Jamil Khan

Seven years ago, Mohammad Sabuj and his neighbour Mohiuddin Sarkar from Cumilla’s Daudkandi paid around Tk 13 lakh to six people who lured them with well-paying jobs in Germany. 

Shah Azam, 28, a yaba godfather of Teknaf, surrendered to police on February 16, 2019, promising to leave the drug business and never engage in the trade again. He was sent to jail at the time and released in November 2020.

To collect funds, increase organisational strength, and avoid arrest, Al-Qaeda-inspired militant outfit Ansar Al Islam is now sending its permanent members abroad.

Ansar al Islam, which claims to be the Bangladesh chapter of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, has received about Tk 1.5 crore in the last three and half years from people in the UK and Australia for its operational activities as the militant outfit looks to stage a comeback.

A government employee, schoolteachers, doctors and imams were found to have links with seven youths who ran away from their Cumilla homes last month, said CTTC and Rab officials.

Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology has recently dismissed a parliamentary standing committee’s recommendation for closing down TikTok in the country.

As firing and mortar shelling in Myanmar were now heard from Ukhiya border of Cox’s Bazar yesterday, the local authorities warned the boat owners of not carrying Rohingyas amid fear of their fresh entry.

Amid incessant gunfire and mortar shelling in Myanmar close to the Bangladesh border, the local administration is planning to evacuate around 300 families in Ghumdhum union of Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila. 

Thirty-year-old Noor Hasina lives in a house in Konarpara along the Tambru border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila.

Amid fears of fresh entry of Rohingyas into Bangladesh, following the continuous assaults by the Myanmar military against the Arakan Army along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in the past few weeks, the government has said they are trying to repatriate Rohingyas  peacefully.

The Myanmar military’s continuous air and ground assaults against the Arakan Army (AA) along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in the past few weeks have triggered fears of fresh entry of Rohingyas into the country.

Even though the number of motorbikes and deaths in bike-related accidents is rising sharply, only 34 percent of bikers wear helmets while driving, according to a recent study conducted by the World Bank and Buet’s Accident Research Institute.

Apparently, you can sack the man out of the bank, but you can’t take the banker out of the man!

Once again, youths are leaving their homes after being indoctrinated into extremism online, found law enforcers working to combat terrorism.

At least 5,000 agents of different mobile financial services made suspicious transactions involving around Tk 25,000 crore, meant to be remitted by Bangladeshi expatriates, in the last four months.

Although Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) shows rising drug cases and arrests in its annual round-up every year, more than half of the cases end up in acquittals.

Not a motorbike, not even a car, their target is stealing an entire bus.

Despite law enforcers’ tough vigilance, smugglers are trying to introduce new types of narcotics in the country and are doing business using social media.

They had valid visas, training and work permits.

Sanwar Hossain joined Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in 2000, influenced by none other than the banned outfit’s then supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman.