15-minute-long battle against smoke, fire, fear
When a fire broke out at the Arian Fashion garment factory in the capital’s Rupnagar area on Tuesday morning, four people, including 15-year-old Mohammad Hossain, were trapped on the third floor.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Little is done despite repeated tragedies
Experts say little has changed since the deadly Churihatta and Nimtali fires years ago
15 October 2025, 09:23 AM
‘We‘re trapped, we can’t get out’
When the fire broke out at the Arian Fashion factory yesterday morning, 18-year-old Marzia Sultana Alo’s father called her.
14 October 2025, 22:00 PM
‘The factory is on fire. We’re trapped. Can’t get out’
Alo's last call to her father before phone went dead
14 October 2025, 16:26 PM
Little headway made in stolen arms recovery
Since the rewards declaration, only 25 firearms and 190 rounds of ammunition were recovered
30 September 2025, 19:46 PM
Smuggling along the Bay: Rice goes out, yaba comes in
Essential goods like rice, fertiliser, and medicines are being quietly smuggled into Myanmar by a syndicate working with the Arakan Army (AA). In return, yaba, crystal meth, and other narcotics pour into Bangladesh, according to BGB and home ministry sources.
25 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Justice eludes women, children as trials drag on
Experts warn delays are letting offenders walk free
25 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Barishal BSCIC estate limping amid gas, infrastructure crises
Investors look beyond Barishal due to poor business climate, infrastructure
15 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
‘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, 18:00 PM
‘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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 03:30 AM
‘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, 18:00 PM
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, 05:30 AM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 05:00 AM
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, 05:15 AM
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, 06:00 AM
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, 05:30 AM
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, 18:00 PM
Extorting money, trading arms right from jail
It costs Tk 100 to make a three-minute phone call from jail anytime. That’s not all. For the right amount -- Tk 5,000 to 7,000 -- any inmate can use a smartphone inside their cell for the whole night.
26 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Criminals graduating to cash deposit machines, fake telemedicine services: DB
Even the world of crime is witnessing innovations.
24 April 2022, 18:00 PM
There’s a new strategy out there
In an attempt to escape the prying eyes of law enforcers, drug peddlers across the capital have come up with a new strategy. They are now using the elderly as their carriers to transport consignments from one place to another.
23 April 2022, 18:00 PM
A box that can make dollars!
They enter Bangladesh with business or visit visas.
21 April 2022, 18:00 PM