UK bars direct air cargo from Dhaka
The UK has banned air cargo directly from Dhaka until further notice as Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport failed to meet some international security requirements.
9 March 2016, 18:00 PM
What's all this about nation branding?
I was standing at the immigration cue at Hamburg Airport watching their highly efficient system. No matter how many people appeared
1 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Biman MD calls it quits
Kyle Haywood yesterday resigned as the Biman Bangladesh Airlines managing director and chief executive officer after serving a year at the helm of the national flag carrier.
10 January 2016, 18:00 PM
A year of attacks, rise of militancy
Last year was one of the worst in a decade in terms of suspected militant attacks in Bangladesh.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM
JMB finds new explosive guru
“Boma” Shakil is the man Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) found as the most talented explosive expert after “Boma” Mizan.
28 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Addressing the root cause of radicalisation
The authorities in the US in partnership with private agencies are engaging community and religious leaders to free some Somali-American youths from their alleged inclination towards terror outfits like Al-Shabab and Islamic State (IS).
19 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Call for resilience against extremism
The global youth summit against violent extremism that started in New York on Monday had a speaker who was once inclined towards terrorism but now prevents others from going astray.
29 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Testimony to terror sponsored by state
The dreadful memories of captivity still send shudder down his spine. Police tortured Joj Mia in custody to make him confess to a crime he did not commit.
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Probe finds link of 6 cops with Cox’s Bazar-based yaba smuggling racket
A police investigation has found direct links of six policemen with a yaba smuggling syndicate based in Cox's Bazar, say police officials.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Abductors on the prowl
On the morning of July 12, all the hustle and bustle of the busy Eid market at the capital's Science Laboratory intersection came to a standstill, at least for a few minutes. Five armed men jumped out of a white microbus and forced two men into the vehicle. It was around 10:30.
The victims -- two brothers, as it later transpired -- shouted for help from inside the vehicle with black glass, but none of the several hundred eyewitnesses dared to approach the microbus.
23 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Saudi restrictions put Biman in peril
The Saudi authorities this year stopped issuing Umrah visas to Bangladeshis on the allegation of smuggling of migrants into the
17 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Number of traffickers grows 6 times in 2 years in Bangladesh
The number of human traffickers increased sixfold in the last two years, according to a police probe report.
11 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Tourism gets a boost
The tourism sector is likely to receive a major boost as the government seeks to more than double the civil aviation and tourism
4 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Cops struggling to cope with overstretched duty
It was a Sunday afternoon. Two on-duty policemen were sitting on a bench on the sidewalk of Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in the capital's Karwan Bazar area.
4 March 2015, 21:59 PM
No case sees verdict
Court officials cannot tell when a gold smuggler was punished last time. What they can tell though that there is no such instance in the past 10 years. This, they say, has contributed to the recent surge in the smuggling of the yellow metal.
1 March 2015, 23:23 PM
Tip of iceberg
More than 1,000kg of gold worth around Tk 450 crore was seized in the last one year by Customs Intelligence and other agencies.
27 February 2015, 23:13 PM
Into the cobweb of gold rackets
Gold smuggling has gone remarkably up of late. Big haul of the most-sought-after metal makes headline all too frequently.
26 February 2015, 22:21 PM
Torn-apart, families wait in whimper for justice
Families of the Pilkhana carnage victims may have to wait for two more years to see the killers punished due to the lengthy nature of the judicial proceedings.
24 February 2015, 18:51 PM