Yaba pills

Explainer: What happens to an area declared a drug-prone zone?

Once an area is declared a drug-prone zone, a taskforce will be formed with DNC and other law enforcement agencies involved in drug control. A list will be made of drug dealers, money launderers using drug money and the accused in drug-related cases, he added.

University student arrested for peddling yaba at her flat: Rab

She used to bring yaba to Dhaka from the areas near the border with Myanmar and sell those at the flat

Swallowing yaba for a living

It takes around 4 hours to swallow 54 small packets of yaba for 41-year-old Josna Khatun. Each packet contains 50 pills.

Man held with 1.48 lakh Yaba pills in Chattogram

Police in a drive arrested a man and recovered 148,000 pieces of yaba pills from a fishing trawler at Old Kalurghat area in Chandgaon of Chattogram city today.

2,280 yaba pills recovered from man’s stomach at Dhaka airport

Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) detains one person with 2,280 yaba pills hidden inside his stomach at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

HC wants fresh charge sheet in yaba recovery case

High Court (HC) has termed a charge sheet as “defective” in a case filed over recovery of 49,000 yaba tablets in Narayanganj last year.

7 lakh yaba pills seized from boat

Coast Guards members yesterday recovered seven lakh pieces of contraband yaba pills from a boat in the Naf River of Teknaf early yesterday.

Drug peddlers held with yaba inside shoes

Three including two women have been arrested in Mymensingh city who were carrying yaba tablets inside their shoes.

Man held with 920 yaba tablets at Dhaka airport

A man has been arrested with yaba tablets at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) has said.

October 31, 2018
October 31, 2018

Bus helper held with 3,800 yaba pills

Detectives arrest a bus helper along with 3,800 pieces of contraband yaba pills at Firingi Bazar area of Chattogram city.

September 9, 2018
September 9, 2018

BGB recovers Tk 27cr yaba from Teknaf

Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday recovered nine lakh yaba tablets, worth about Tk 27 crore, in two separate raids in Teknaf upazila.

May 29, 2018
May 29, 2018

31 held in Uttara anti-narcotics drive

At least 31 people are detained in an anti-narcotics drive in Dhaka’s Uttara area.

May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018

14 lakh yaba pills seized

Law enforcers, in separate drives, seized 14.40 lakh yaba pills worth about Tk 71 crore and arrested four from Cox's Bazar and Comilla in connection with the seizures.

March 9, 2018
March 9, 2018

ASI busted with 50k yaba pills in Narayanganj

Detectives arrested an assistant sub-inspector of Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station in possession of 50,000 yaba tablets yesterday, police said.

March 5, 2018
March 5, 2018

Sniffed out by the dogs

Around 9:30pm last Saturday, a police team stopped a motorbike in the capital's Palashi Residential Area. Alleged yaba dealers they had arrested earlier told them that a bike, registered in Chittagong, would have yaba pills stashed inside.

March 1, 2018
March 1, 2018

3 lakh yaba pills recovered

Bangladesh Coast Guard has detained six Myanmar nationals on a fishing boat in the deep sea at Saint Martin's Island, and recovered three lakh yaba tablets from them in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday.

February 12, 2018
February 12, 2018

Yaba Trade in Ctg: Covered vans used for cover

A section of smugglers are allegedly operating transport agencies in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar to move drugs under cover, say insiders and investigators.

October 28, 2017
October 28, 2017

Police recover 4,500 yaba pills from pvt car

Police recovered 4,500 yaba tablets from a private car on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Chittagong's Lohagara upazila yesterday.

February 4, 2016
February 4, 2016

7.3 lakh yaba tablets seized

Rab seized 7.3 lakh yaba tablets and arrested seven people, including a Myanmarese, in this connection from Cox's Bazar Sadar upazila early yesterday.