Intelligence surveillance has been stepped up across the country, especially in remote areas, to collect advance information about regrouping of banned religious outfit.The move was taken after militants ambushed a prison van and snatched away three condemned convicts of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Trishal upazila in Mymensingh last Sunday morning.The snatched convicts were Salahuddin alias Salehin, JMB in-charge of Sylhet-Mymensingh region; Mohammad Rakib Hasan Russell alias Hafez Mahmud, Khulna divisional commander of JMB; and Zahidul Islam alias ‘Boma’ Mizan,...
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The Special Intelligence Agency (SPA) has decided to maintain a database of a section of foreign nationals living in Bangladesh for preserving their track records. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Ministry of Home Affairs held last month in view of the involvement of the foreigners in committing crimes of grave nature. Some of them are overstaying in the capital.An senior SPA officer told The New Nation that zonal officers of the agency had been asked to...
The mastermind of Sonali Bank heist and his associate were handed over to Kishoreganj police on Wednesday as a case in connection with Tk 16.40 crore robbery was filed there. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel handed over Habib alias Sohel Rana and his aide Idris alias Motahar to a team of Sadar police in the district, said Shahen Shah, Assistant Superintendent of police in Kishoreganj (Sadar).Shahen, who led the team, left Dhaka for Kishoreganj after receiving the duo, reports our...
Law enforcers will set a five-layer checking system in and around the Biswa Ijtema premises at Tongi in Gazipur district for peaceful holding of the second largest congregation of the Muslim community beginning on the bank of the Turag from January 24.The Ijtema is being held in two phases for the last few years to avoid limitless overcrowding. The second phase will begin from January 31 at the same venue.About 22,000 strong forces comprising members from Police, Rapid Action Battalion...
The government put all 67 jails and Border outposts in the country on red alert, after criminals attacked a prison van and snatched away three including two condemned death row activists of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Mymensingh on Sunday morning.The red alert has been issued at the border outposts also to prevent the remaining two convicted JMB men from fleeing the country.Along with the red alert in all jails, additional forces from RAB and police have been deployed, and...
A special Tribunal court in Chittagong on Thursday awarded death sentence to 14, including Jamaat chief and then industries Minister...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday recovered the looted Tk16.19 crores from the possession of two arrestees in connection with...
A rise in the incidents of killing, hijacking, robbery, theft and crimes of other types including sexual assault and gang rape is adding tension in the country in recent time. Four persons of a family at Burungamari upazila in Kurigram were killed at their home yesterday and nobody knew who committed the gruesome murders. In Jessore a Jubo League leader was similarly shot at and killed and the killer escaped undetected. The number of daily incidents is hefty and hardly...
