THE recent US government military surge vis-a-vis Venezuela, including the USS Gerald R Ford and the most advanced warplanes, has generated fears of a potentially dangerous escalation. President Donald Trump has said the operation was aimed at cracking down on drug trafficking and alleged that Venezuela is a conduit for such activity. Drug trafficking is...
Drug peddling has emerged as a grave threat in Lalmonirhat, where smuggling rackets appear determined to continue their operations despite repeated crackdowns by law enforcement agencies and numerous cases filed against those involved...
The Bangladesh Coast Guard in an operation on Friday rescued 44 people, including women and children, held captive in a remote hilly area of Teknaf for the purpose of trafficking.
Police in a drive arrested eight suspected members of a human trafficking gang from a hotel in Ashulia of Savar on Sunday morning...
Processions and rallies by different groups pressing for different demands along with potholed roads and infrastructure construction works caused choking traffic congestion almost all over Dhaka city on Sunday.
Heavy rain on Thursday morning caused sufferings to people due to severe water stagnation and traffic congestion in many areas of the capital Dhaka...
Adviser to the ministries of road transport and bridges and railways Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Wednesday was compelled to take a motorcycle ride to reach his destination after being stuck in traffic gridlock for nearly three hours...
French air traffic controllers have called off a three-day strike that threatened to disrupt European skies next week, a top union said on Saturday...
The government of Bangladesh has demonstrated overall increasing efforts to deal with the trafficking in persons compared with the previous reporting period, says the United States...
The Bangladesh Coast Guard and the Bangladesh Navy in a joint operation early Friday rescued 38 people, including women and children, who were held captive in the remote hills of Teknaf in Cox鈥檚 Bazar for trafficking.
Aviation groups urged US political leaders to quickly resolve a budget impasse Wednesday, warning that the government shutdown strains air travel and delays key upgrades...
BANGLADESH has made some tangible progress in preventing human trafficking, but much more needs to be done to contain trafficking-related crimes. Statistics of recent years show that Bangladesh faces a significant and complex human trafficking problem, with an estimated 1.2 million people living in 鈥榤odern slavery鈥� in 2021. For six consecutive years, Bangladesh has...
Bangladesh has remained in Tier 2, as in the past year, in the United States Department of State鈥檚 Trafficking in Persons Report 2025 published on Tuesday...
Community Bank Bangladesh PLC has recently organised a daylong training workshop on simplifying 鈥楨-Traffic Management and Fine Collection鈥� in Rajshahi...
Several hundred Malaysia-bound migrant workers blocked traffic in Dhaka on Sunday morning, demanding that the government immediately ensure their long-delayed departure...
THE failure of automation attempts in Dhaka鈥檚 traffic management is both worrying and symptomatic of a broader inertia in urban governance. Despite repeated investments in automatic solutions, the city remains dependent on the manual traffic policing. The latest example is the automated traffic signalling system, launched only a month ago on a trial basis at seven...
The automated signalling system, launched in Dhaka city about a month ago on trial basis, has hardly proved worthwhile as the traffic police continue to manage traffic flows manually.
Bangladesh Coast Guard and Bangladesh Navy in a joint operation on Thursday night rescued 66 people, including women and children, held captive in the remote hills of Teknaf for trafficking.
Government officials, urban planners and transportation experts on Monday said that traffic management in the capital Dhaka would remain chaotic unless the system was built and controlled by professionals...
The Border Guard Bangladesh has rescued two Bangladeshi teenage boys in the Keruntali area under Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar while they were allegedly being trafficked to Myanmar by Rohingyas...
AN ALARMING increase in motorcycle accidents and consequent fatalities suggests both lax enforcement of traffic regulations and motorcyclists鈥� proclivity to disregard them. The photograph that 抖阴精品 published on September 9 shows three teenagers, in school uniforms and without helmets, riding a motorcycle in the rain near the Teacher-Student Centre on the...
All buses in Dhaka city will be run under a unified system to bring back order on the road and reduce traffic congestion, according to a post shared on the verified Facebook page of the chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday night...
Customs intelligence officials detained a foreign national with more than eight kilograms of cocaine worth Tk 130 crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Tuesday.
People suffered on Sunday due to traffic congestion as the families of a section of July uprising victims blocked the road leading to the state guest house Jamuna in the capital to press their demands, including the resignation of law adviser Asif Nazrul and chief adviser鈥檚 special assistant for home ministry Md Khuda Baksh Chowdhury...
The Criminal Investigation Department on Thursday arrested a member of a human trafficking gang at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital...
DHAKA, a teeming capital, is a living example of what happens when urbanisation can outstrip planning. A sprawling city with more than 20 million, it is about to explode. Its crowded, polluted streets, survival struggles and squalor tell the story of a desperate metropolis. Every morning, millions of Dhaka residents endure agonising commutes, stuck in traffic that snakes...
Security agency officials and policymakers at a discussion on Wednesday reaffirmed Bangladesh鈥檚 commitment to combat human trafficking, recognising it as a grave violation of human rights and a serious form of organised crime...
CNG-run auto-rickshaw owners and workers in Brahmanbaria went on an indefinite strike, protesting alleged harassment by traffic police, extortion, vehicle seizures and corruption related to license renewals...
Khulna Metropolitan Police has inaugurated traffic fine collection service through Community Bank Bangladesh PLC, said a press release...
Dwellers in Dhaka suffered immensely on Saturday as the traffic system in the south part of the capital collapsed as thousands of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, activists and followers from across the country came to Suhrawardy Udyan to attend the party鈥檚 national rally in the city...
