Rab

‘Drug peddler’ held in Dhaka

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members detain an alleged drug peddler along with 500 bottles of Phensidyl from Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila.
5 December 2018, 16:28 PM

Businesswoman held, remanded

Rab has arrested a woman entrepreneur in a case filed under the controversial section 57 of the ICT Act for “spreading rumours and sharing provocative posts” on social media over the recent student protest.
17 August 2018, 18:00 PM

'Please help us find him'

Wife of former commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Lt Col Hasinur Rahman pleads to the prime minister for directing law enforcers to find her husband, who has remained traceless for over a week.
17 August 2018, 18:00 PM

Rab seeks authority to conduct random drug tests

Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday sought authority from government to conduct random drug testing on persons who it suspects of drug abuse.
29 July 2018, 18:00 PM

2 ‘drug peddlers’ of Dhaka killed in ‘gunfights’

Two suspected drug peddlers are killed in separate incidents of gunfights with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Narayanganj and Dhaka.
10 July 2018, 05:08 AM

PM asks Rab to fight drugs

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directs the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to continue its drive against drugs to save the country and children from its (drugs) clutches side by side with maintaining law and order to keep up development spree.
3 May 2018, 10:23 AM

Rab pledges to quash leak-sters, ‘like militants’

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) pledges to crush leak-sters who are plaguing the country’s educational sector by leaking question papers of public examinations.
2 April 2018, 12:56 PM

3 JMB men held with pistol, bomb in Rajshahi

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrest three suspected members of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi.
25 February 2018, 04:19 AM

Rape accused killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

The fugitive accused of a rape case is reportedly killed in a gunfight with Rab at Chokoria upazila in Cox’s Bazar.
21 February 2018, 13:05 PM

Missing BNP leaderarrested by Rab

Rab yesterday confirmed that it arrested BNP leader Anisur Rahman Talukder Khokon over allegations of plotting subversive activities around 20 hours after he went missing in the capital's Gulistan area.
30 January 2018, 18:00 PM

Three JMB operatives blow themselves up

Three militant suspects were killed after they allegedly detonated suicide vests during an anti-terror operation by Rapid Action Battalion at a remote char on the Padma in Chapainawabganj yesterday.
28 November 2017, 18:00 PM

This time, no trace of book importer

Rab members yesterday picked up Liberation War hero Habibul Alam from the capital's Eskaton and interrogated him for around seven
9 November 2017, 18:00 PM

4 members of kidnapping gang held, 2 abductees rescued

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrest four members of a kidnapping gang and rescue two abductees from city's Mugda area
5 November 2017, 04:30 AM

He plotted to fly plane into VIP houses

The Rab yesterday arrested a Biman Bangladesh Airlines co-pilot, who according to the force, was planning to carry out a suicide attack on the residences of government high-ups with an aircraft.
31 October 2017, 18:00 PM

'Drug dealer' killed in 'gunfight'

An alleged drug dealer was killed in a "gunfight" between his cohorts and Rab in Chittagong city's Ice Factory Road area early yesterday.
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM

2 killed in 'gunfights' with Rab, police

Two alleged criminals were killed in “shootouts” between their cohorts and law enforcers in Chittagong and Habiganj early yesterday.
12 October 2017, 18:00 PM

'Model to militant'

Once a young model, Imam Mehedi Hasan turned into a militant leader about two years ago, claimed Rab.
21 September 2017, 18:07 PM

Man dies in Rab custody

A man died in the custody of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) early yesterday, hours after members of the elite force arrested him at Naogaon.
9 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Huge blasts at 'terror den' in capital

Casualties are feared in a flat in the capital's Darus Salam after a suspected militant allegedly detonated bombs last night.
5 September 2017, 18:00 PM

3 suicide blasts at Mirpur ‘militant den’, says Rab

Heavy sounds of gunshots and explosions are heard from the suspected militant hideout in Dhaka’s Mirpur, over two hours after the law enforcers claimed that the “militants” holed up in den agreed to surrender to the lawmen.
5 September 2017, 02:50 AM