Rice prices up by Tk 2-3 a kg
Prices of almost all varieties of rice have gone up in the capital’s kitchen markets over the last one week.
28 June 2024, 18:00 PM
MP Azim Murder: Yet another investigator transferred
Two officers supervising the ongoing investigation into the murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar have been transferred.
23 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Border killings continue despite BSF promise
Border killings continue despite India’s Border Security Force’s repeated assurance of bringing it down to zero.
14 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Fake note for sale online
Hridoy Matobbar, 22, an employee at a computer shop in the capital’s Shaympur, learned counterfeiting from YouTube and mastered his computer skills to produce fake money at home. He formed a network and started selling counterfeit currency on social media.
8 June 2024, 18:00 PM
‘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.
31 May 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
25 May 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
20 May 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
14 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Barcode for cattle!
50,000 animals to come under online registration system
14 May 2024, 08:33 AM
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.
12 May 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
9 May 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
4 May 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
17 April 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
8 April 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
2 April 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
28 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
23 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
9 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
1 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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.
26 February 2024, 18:00 PM