Joint forces bust illegal arms factory in Ctg, 4 held
Joint forces on Saturday in a drive busted an arms manufacturing factory in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram.
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Government offers up to Tk 5 lakh for info on looted firearms
The interim government on Monday announced cash rewards for information leading to the recovery of firearms looted in July and August, with the highest amount of Tk 5 lakh for the recovery of a light machine gun.
BGB to discuss security concerns over allowing arms to indigenous people
The Border Guard Bangladesh, during the upcoming director general level conference with its Indian counterpart, will raise the issue of possible security risks along Bangladesh鈥檚 borders with the Indian state of Assam over allowing arms to the indigenous people...
Bangladeshis along border under threat as Assam to give arms licence to indigenous people
The decision of the government of the Indian state of Assam to provide licences for firearms to its inhabitants and indigenous people living near the Bangladesh border has raised security concerns for the people living in the bordering area in Bangladesh, according to security experts...
Mohammadi warns of 鈥榯emptation鈥� of nuclear arms
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi warned Wednesday, on the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, that the 鈥榯emptation鈥� for countries to pursue nuclear arms was growing...
2,955 more held, five firearms, 3,134 bullets seized in 48hrs
In the ongoing countrywide anti-crime crackdown, 2,955 more crime suspects were apprehended and five firearms and huge ammunition were seized in the past 48 hours...
Ukraine left scrambling after US says halting some arms shipments
Ukraine appealed to the United States for clarity on Wednesday after it was caught off guard by a White House announcement that Washington was halting some arms shipments to the war-battered country...
Magazine with bullets found in adviser Asif鈥檚 bag at Dhaka airport
A magazine containing bullets was reportedly recovered from a bag of local government adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Sunday morning鈥�
World faces new nuclear arms race: researchers
Most of the world鈥檚 nuclear-armed states continued to modernise their arsenals last year, setting the stage for a new nuclear arms race, researchers warned on Monday.
54 migrants rescued from Mediterranean oil platform
Over 50 migrants were headed to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday after a charity ship rescued them from an abandoned oil platform in the Mediterranean, where one woman gave birth...
Subrata Bain, Molla Masud placed on police remand
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed top crime suspect Subrata Bain on eight-day remand in police custody in a case filed with the Hatirjheel police over possession of illegal arms...
Recovery of looted weapons should be a priority agenda
MORE than a thousand 鈥� 1,375 to be precise 鈥� of the 5,753 firearms that were looted during the August 2024 political changeover having still not been traced is said to have exposed law and order to a threat of worsening. Official data show that the police are yet to recover 2,57,849 ammunition of the 6,12,982 of various types that were looted that time. The government...
Palak sued in Natore over licensed firearms
A case has been filed against former state minister for information and communication technology, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, under the Arms Act for failing to surrender his licensed firearms within the government-mandated deadline...
HC acquits Babar, overturns jail sentence in arms case
The High Court on Wednesday acquitted former state minister for home affairs and Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Lutfozzaman Babar in an arms case, overturning the 17-year jail sentence handed to him by a trial court in 2007...
10-TRUCK ARMS HAUL:聽Babar acquitted in all cases
The High Court on Tuesday acquitted former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and four other life-term convicts in the arms case linked to the 2004 Chattogram 10-truck arms haul, paving...
10-Truck Arms Haul: HC acquits Babar, Nizami, 4 others
The High Court on Wednesday acquitted former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and five others and commuted the death sentence of United Liberation Front of Asom leader Paresh Barua to life-term imprisonment in one of two cases filed for 2004 Chattogram 10-truck arms haul...
BPA to halt broiler, egg production if syndicates remain
The Bangladesh Poultry Association on Sunday announced that marginal poultry farms across the country would cease production of broiler chickens and eggs starting from January 1, 2025 if the government failed to address their demands and curb influence of corporate syndicates...
Defence starts arguments in 10-truck arms case at HC
The defence at the High Court on Sunday started placing their arguments on death references and appeals in the case lodged over 2004 Chattogram 10-truck arms haul...
Govt allows DNC officials to use arms
The government on Sunday finalised a policy to allow officials of the Department of Narcotics to use arms...
Bangladesh Army arrests 2,500 people, recovers 6,000 guns
Bangladesh鈥檚 army said Wednesday it had arrested 2,500 people and recovered 6,000 guns as it seeks to bolster security since the student-led mass uprising that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August...
HC starts hearing death reference for Babar, 13 others after a decade
The High Court on Wednesday began hearings on the death references of 14 individuals, including former industries minister and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Matiur Rahman Nizami, former BNP lawmaker...
Juba Dal convener among four held
Four people, including Abul Kalam, convener of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 youth wing Juba Dal in Noakhali Sadar upazila鈥檚 Purba Charmatua union, were held Monday morning during a joint forces operation for making TikTok videos with firearms...
Indonesia bets on SE Asia鈥檚 first battery plant to become EV hub
Rows of robotic arms move with precision to assemble nickel-based battery cells on the production line at Indonesia鈥檚 inaugural electric vehicle battery plant, the first in Southeast Asia...
AIUB delegates visit Hochschule Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
A delegation from the American International University-Bangladesh has recently visited the Hochschule Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany to discuss academic partnerships and collaborative initiatives...
53 firearms recovered, 25 arrested in joint drive: PHQ
The Police Headquarters on Saturday said that law enforcers had recovered 53 firearms and arrested 25 people in the ongoing joint operations from midnight past Wednesday till Saturday morning...
Eight arrested, 11 firearms recovered in joint drive
At least eight people were arrested and 11 firearms, including a shotgun from Noakhali-4 constituency lawmaker Ekramul Karim Chowdhury鈥檚 family graveyard in the district were recovered...
8 held with arms, ammunition in Cox鈥檚 Bazar
At least eight people were arrested with weapons and ammunition during the joint forces鈥� drive in Sadar upazila of Cox鈥檚 Bazar in the small hours of Friday.
Starmer defends Israel arms suspension as 鈥榣egal decision鈥�
UK prime minister Keir Starmer defended on Wednesday his government鈥檚 partial suspension of arms exports to Israel over fears they could be used in a breach of humanitarian law as 鈥榓 legal decision鈥�...
Joint drive to recover illegal arms begins
A joint operation began across the country in an effort to recover illegal firearms Tuesday midnight.
Arms embargo on Israel is not a radical idea, it鈥檚 the law
AS ISRAEL launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I think of the mother in Jenin who was on the phone with her two sons seconds before their house was burned in an Israeli raid. I think of the wife of a man who was being held in an Israeli prison without...