12 drug kingpins amass Tk 178.44cr
The Criminal Investigation Department discovered assets worth Tk 178.44 crore belonging to twelve “drug kingpins,” including two brothers of a former Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi.
1w ago
It all happened before her eyes
Synthia looked at her mother Mojida Khatun Doly with hollow eyes. Still reeling under trauma, the 13-year-old barely spoke or moved as she laid on an ICU bed in the capital.
2w ago
Family unhappy over CID’s progress
After around a year of being tasked with the investigation into the death of Fardin Noor Parash, a third-year Buet student, the Criminal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has yet to make any headway.
3w ago
Tk 400cr transacted through hundi in three months
A group of Dubai-based hundi traders created an app, bought 150 “agent SIM cards” of different mobile financial services in Bangladesh, and transacted around Tk 400 crore -- meant to be remitted by Bangladeshi expatriates -- in the last three months.
4w ago
Teen gang patrons still untouched
Seven years ago, the nation was shaken by the murder of an eighth grader named Adnan Kabir by a gang of boys about his age in the capital’s Uttara.
1m ago
No good news for consumers in Ramadan
With Ramadan just two days away, consumers will have to deal with the hiked prices of essential for the month of fasting this year.
1m ago
It was a bomb waiting to go off
The Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall on the capital’s Bailey Road had all the catalysts needed to set off a blaze.
1m ago
Rohingyas given NIDs, passports on forged docs
During the Rohingya influx in 2017, a girl along with her family moved to a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar from Maungdaw, a town in Rakhine state of Myanmar.
2m ago
February 7, 2024
JU Dormitories: Illegal occupation to blame for seat crisis
Many Chhatra League leaders and activists of Jahangirnagar University and non-students have been staying in dormitories illegally, leading to an acute seat crisis.
January 8, 2024
EC app misleads voters to wrong centres
Nurul Islam, a voter in Gazipur-2 constituency, came to Kalmeshwor Government Primary School to cast his vote around 10:45am yesterday, but he found out that it was not his designated centre.
January 7, 2024
‘Petrol, chemicals used’ to torch train
Masud Alam started his journey towards Dhaka from Bhanga Railway Station in carriage “Cha” of Benapole Express around 7:50pm on Friday.
January 6, 2024
‘We’re lucky to be alive’
Survivors of Benapole Express fire recount horror
December 31, 2023
A raid riddled with questions
A team of detectives on Wednesday night raided a printing press in the capital’s Katabon area and claimed to have recovered crude bombs, petrol, gunpowder and over 52,000 leaflets calling for boycott of the election.
December 26, 2023
Trader ‘tortured’ in DB custody
A trader in the capital’s Ashkona has alleged that he was tortured in custody of the Detective Branch of police in October and forced to write a cheque of Tk 3.60 crore.
November 13, 2023
Was shooting at them the only option?
Like every morning, Nargis Parvin made sure to tell her husband Jalal Uddin to stay safe when he would leave for work.
November 8, 2023
Oust-Govt Movement: Family members now face arrests
Soon after the BNP announced its October 28 rally, Salauddin Salo, member secretary of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal’s Narayanganj unit, left his home to avoid arrest.
October 25, 2023
Cricket fever sparks online betting frenzy
With the ICC Cricket World Cup currently underway, online betting is witnessing a surge in Bangladesh, resulting in crores of taka flowing out of the country every day.
October 22, 2023
Custodial torture or bike accident?
A jewellery-shop worker was allegedly picked up, beaten with cricket stumps and given electric shocks by errant cops on February 11, 2019.
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