Govt rehabs not built for women, adolescents
26 August 2026
Bangladesh’s drug rehabilitation system is struggling to meet the needs of women and adolescents, with government centres offering limited capacity even as more women and children seek treatment.
26 August 2026
‘We want to go home’
26 August 2026
“I want to be a doctor,” said 16-year-old Syed Kasim, a class six student living in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.
26 August 2026
‘Must not be a forgotten issue’
25 August 2026
Conditions for Rohingya repatriation remain absent as the crisis enters its 10th year, while shrinking aid, insecurity and prolonged displacement deepen uncertainty for refugees and host communities.
25 August 2026
Inside a Bangladeshi woman's ordeal in China
23 August 2026
A blow-by-blow account of a 19-year-old’s alleged journey from domestic work to drug dependency, forced marriage and trafficking to China
23 August 2026
Will seniors protect us?
23 August 2026
On February 7, 2025, a group of men allegedly took over Md Shamim’s rickshaw garage in Kallyanpur, forcing out all 16 rickshaws kept there.
23 August 2026
Women going to China on family visas soaring
23 August 2026
At least 4,226 Bangladeshi women travelled to China on family visas between 2020 and 2025.
23 August 2026
Police adrift amid reshuffle, retirement
23 August 2026
Fear of forced retirement, punishment over past deeds, and uncertainty surrounding transfers and promotions are weighing heavily on police officials. Many of them say they are now hesitant before making decisions that could later become politically controversial.
23 August 2026
Chinese family visas for Bangladeshi women surge nearly 50‑fold in 3 years
22 August 2026
From just 35 in 2022 to 1,721 in 2025
22 August 2026
Their tactic: inhumane torture
Twenty-seven-year-old Apel Ali went to Iraq on February 26, 2018, and started working at a hotel in Baghdad.
22 June 2022
Evolution of cybercrime: It’s in the many technicalities
Last Friday, police officials collected details of a SIM card number that was used for hacking a mobile financial service (MFS) account.
18 June 2022
Evolution of cybercrime (part 4): Faces behind the crimes
Twenty-two-year-old Ratul Sheikh is a farm labourer.
16 June 2022
Evolution Of Cybercrime: Women, the worst sufferers as usual
From November 16, 2021, to April 30 this year, Police Cyber Support for Woman (PCSW) wing of Police Headquarters (PHQ) has received around 4,094 cybercrime complaints.
15 June 2022
Tale of vile discoveries
Gone are the days when extortionists and blackmailers would take advantage of people’s religious beliefs and superstitions and extort money from them by pretending to be “Djinn er Badshah” -- the king of genies -- over the phones.
14 June 2022
Patterns have evolved, so have criminals
They met on a social media site for something that soon turned out to be an intimate relationship of sorts.
13 June 2022
Gates electronic, immigration process still manual
Although authorities have installed electronic immigration gates or e-gates at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), the system still does not have all the planned functions.
10 June 2022
‘Pay up, or you’ll end up like Tipu’
Just a week before Eid-ul-Fitr, a businessman, who has shops at the capital’s AGB colony kitchen market, received a call from an internet-generated number.
9 June 2022
‘Raking in money by promising govt jobs’
Md Selim, owner of a community centre in Rajshahi, submitted a file at the education ministry last month, requesting for a promotion for his relative, who worked at a college.
7 June 2022
To treat burn patients, time is of the essence
At least 100 people were burnt, and of them, 67 were being treated after the BM container depot fire in Chattogram. Due to the limited capacity in Chattogram, patients with serious injuries needed to be shifted to Dhaka through emergency helicopters.
7 June 2022
Flour balls for medicines!
They target medicines that are widely sold in the market, like Naproxen-Plus, Pantonex, Seclo, Monas and Finix. And they make the fake versions using flour and semolina.
6 June 2022
Invading homes in seconds
It only takes 15 to 20 seconds for them to cut through a window or balcony and enter a house.
2 June 2022
‘It took them seconds to steal a phone’
Aziz Mohammad was in Saudi Arabia for 33 years. As a hafez, the 45-year-old used to work as an imam at different mosques, and also as a driver.
21 May 2022
DSHE question leak: Field agents were active to sell leaked questions, say detectives
A cashier and book-centre staffer of two government colleges in Dhaka have worked as field agents to find examinees who would purchase the leaked questions of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education’s (DSHE) recruitment test.
21 May 2022
Conning customers with bank details
Around 1:10pm on March 12, Abu Bakkar Siddique received a call from “+16491”. The caller identified himself as an official of Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL).
19 May 2022
DSHE Question Leak: More names surface
As investigation into the reported question leak of a Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) recruitment exam progresses, more names are coming out.
19 May 2022
Defrauding 60 people a week!
Around 10:00am on March 23, Mosharaf Hossain requested Ansar member Ehsak Ali, who was on-duty at the children’s ward of national cancer research institute, to admit a patient.
18 May 2022
DSHE staffers involved in recruitment exam's question leak: DB
Two employees of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) leaked the question paper of the recruitment exam for the post of “office assistant/computer operator”.
16 May 2022
Using expats to smuggle gold
In the name of sending gifts to dear ones, several syndicates have been using expatriates to smuggle gold into Bangladesh.
13 May 2022
New outfit trying to emerge following JMB’s footsteps
A new extremist outfit, “Jama’atul Muslimeen”, has been formed, keeping strategic similarities with home-grown, banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
10 May 2022