‘Devil’s Breath’: The world’s ‘scariest’ drug
Imagine walking down a quiet street, minding your own business, when a stranger approaches. They offer you a seemingly harmless business card, and you take it without thinking twice. Little did you know that the card was soaked in a drug, which would be absorbed by your skin within minutes.
2d ago
Benazir, Family’s 114 Acres: All bought while he helmed Rab and police
Former IGP Benazir Ahmed and his family members acquired almost all their land during his tenure as the chief of the police and Rab, according to property records listed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
1w ago
Personal data up for sale online!
Some government employees are selling citizens’ NID card and phone call details through hundreds of Facebook, Telegram, and WhatsApp groups, the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre has found.
1w ago
Cattle to have barcodes
For the first time, Bangladesh introduced an online cattle identification and registration system, providing customers with access to comprehensive information about the registered cattle through barcode scanning.
2w ago
Trafficked to India for kidney harvest
A kidney-trafficking syndicate used to target underprivileged people and take them to India with fake job offers. Upon arriving in Delhi, the gang took these victims hostage and forcibly removed their kidneys.
3w ago
Cybergangs now selling ‘genuine’ NIDs
Imagine someone ordering and taking delivery of your personal data -- national identity card information, phone call records, and statements from your mobile financial accounts – as conveniently as ordering food online.
3w ago
Man used fake NIDs to buy 8 Dhaka flats
Joynal Abedin alias Idrish, a former salesman of a jewelry shop in Dhaka’s Mirpur, managed to have six NID cards bearing his name with the help of an outsourced employee at the Election Commission’s NID wing.
4w ago
March 7, 2023
‘Please get him back...My mother is waiting...’
Just 10 days ago Md Suman, 21, a migrant worker, returned home from Qatar for a four-month holiday.
March 5, 2023
‘We lost father within 33 days of losing sister’
Abdul Mannan was working as an office assistant at a company named "New Generation Company" at a building in the Science Laboratory area this morning. Suddenly there was a loud explosion and the building partially collapsed.
February 11, 2023
Sagar-Runi Murder: Solve case or admit failure
Family members of the victims are now demanding that the Rab either solve the case quickly or admit their failure and hand over the investigation to another agency.
January 8, 2023
Authorise the PHQ to punish, promote SPs
Police officials yesterday demanded that the government authorise the Police Headquarters to investigate the SP-level officers and determine their transfers and promotions instead of the home ministry.
January 7, 2023
Burn cases surge amid winter chill
On a chilly winter night, 18-year-old Sonia Begum from Bhola’s Lalmohan upazila was sitting by a fire in order to warm her body. Suddenly, the edge of her dress caught fire.
January 7, 2023
Second-hand clothes their only refuge
Jahirul Islam works as a nightguard at a Karwan Bazar building. A sweater, which he brought several years ago, was all he had to protect himself from the bone-chilling winter cold.
December 20, 2022
Probe reports on DB raid: More questions than answers
Police submitted two contradictory probe reports before a Dhaka court in a case filed over the “confiscation” of fake bank notes from a hotel in Paltan in 2016.
December 10, 2022
Sanctions on Rab ‘worked like a tonic’
US sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion “worked like a tonic”, rights activists said yesterday as the number of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances dropped significantly in the last year.
December 4, 2022
A month after Fardin’s murder: Family waits for closure with no hope in sight
The books he used to read, the shirts he used to wear, the bed he used to sleep in and the prizes he won are constant reminders of Fardin.
December 4, 2022
Mystery still shrouds Fardin’s death
Failing to get any evidence of murder during the month-long investigation, Detective Brach of police is now also looking into whether Buet student Fardin Noor Parash was killed in an accident, or whether he committed suicide.
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