Meghna Bank hosts training on AML, CFT
Meghna Bank PLC has recently organised a daylong training programme anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism for employees of Chattogram region, said a press release...
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Bangladesh, Pakistan pledge joint efforts against drugs, terrorism
Bangladesh and Pakistan have expressed their commitment to work together to combat drugs and terrorism...
EC awaits gazette to act on AL ban: CEC
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Sunday said that the election commission would take appropriate steps once it received the official gazette or paper over the ban of all activities of the Awami League under the Anti-Terrorism Act...
Bangladesh interim govt approves draft of anti-terrorism ordinance
The Council of Advisers on Sunday approved the draft of the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 with provisions to ban individuals or entities involved in terrorist acts and their activities.
Law is no problem to ban AL, Asif Nazrul says
Bangladesh interim government law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Friday said the law will be no problem in banning Awami League as there are some laws, including the Anti-Terrorism Act, for banning the party.
KSA executed 100 in 2025 so far
Saudi Arabia executed two people convicted of terrorism related charges, the interior ministry said Saturday, bringing the total number of executions carried out this year to at least 100, according to an AFP tally...
MBPLC hosts training on money laundering prevention
Mercantile Bank PLC has organised a training programme on 鈥楶revention of money laundering and combating financing against terrorism鈥� for officials of Chattaogram, Feni, Noakhali and Cumilla regions, said a press release...
NBR launches customs risk management regulations against money laundering
The National Board of Revenue has issued a notification introducing the 鈥楥ustoms Risk Management Regulations, 2025鈥� aimed at addressing economic risks such as money laundering and terrorism financing...
MBL holds money laundering prevention training
Mercantile Bank Training Institute has organised a daylong workshop on 鈥楶revention of money laundering and combating financing against terrorism鈥� at its premises recently, said a press release...
US renews pledge to support Bangladesh鈥檚 interim govt
The new Charge d鈥檃ffaires of the United States embassy in Bangladesh, Tracey Ann Jacobson, on Monday reiterated the US support for the interim government of Bangladesh on issues, including development and counter-terrorism...
Street performance Laal Majlum at DU tomorrow
A street performance titled Laal Majlum will be held at the base of Anti-Terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture of Dhaka University on Saturday afternoon...
Foreign adviser off to Kuwait to attend counter terrorism conference
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Sunday departed for Kuwait to attend the high-level counter-terrorism conference scheduled to be held on November 4 and 5 in Kuwait city.
National Crime Agency, UK, delegation meets CTTC chief
A delegation of the national law enforcement agency of the United Kingdom, National Crime Agency on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh鈥檚 Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime chief Md Masud Karim at his office in Dhaka...
Students, people throw shoes at Hasina鈥檚 portrait
Students and people on Saturday threw their shoes at ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 portrait near the Anti-Terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus...
Modi campaigns in Kashmir polls after latest soldier deaths
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said 鈥榯errorism is on its last legs鈥� in Kashmir while campaigning in the disputed territory on Saturday, a day after two soldiers were killed in a gunfight with suspected militants...
Six MPs appear in anti-terrorism court in Pakistan
At least six MPs from jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan鈥檚 party appeared in an anti-terrorism court on Tuesday, an AFP journalist witnessed, two days after they led a major rally in Islamabad.
Explosion in Rupganj 鈥榚xtremist hideout鈥� surrounded by ATU
An explosion occurred on Tuesday on the third floor of a four-storey building, surrounded by the police鈥檚 Anti-Terrorism Unit in suspicion of being an extremist hideout in the Barpa area of Rupganj, Narayanganj...
20 inmates stage Pakistan jailbreak, one killed
Twenty detainees, some accused of terrorism, staged a prison break in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Sunday, officials said, adding that one was 鈥榢illed in the crossfire鈥� during the escape...
Police units trading in personal data is unpardonable crime
PERSONAL data protection is certainly in a mess as two wings of the police 鈥� the Anti-Terrorism Unit and Rapid Action Battalion 6 鈥� are reported to have sold personal data 鈥� including the national identity card details, call records and subscriber鈥檚 identity module data..
Ecocide must be an international crime
BEFORE leaving power in 1990, Chilean general and dictator Augusto Pinochet created a legal framework that guaranteed him absolute impunity. It didn鈥檛 work. He was arrested on charges of genocide and terrorism in London in 1998 by order of the Spanish justice system and, upon his return to Chile, finally had to face justice...
Jama鈥檃tul Ansar supplies arms for KNF鈥檚 training: CTTC
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Friday said that the banned militant outfit Jama鈥檃tul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya supplied arms and ammunition for the training of the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front...
Two members of fake documents ring held
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested two people on charge of embezzling money through trading confidential information of National Identity Card, birth registration certificate and Covid vaccination card...
7 arrested in Australian 鈥榯errorism鈥� raids
Australian police arrested seven teenagers in a wave of anti-terror raids Wednesday, with top officers claiming the network may have been plotting an attack and posed an 鈥榰nacceptable risk鈥� to the public...
Palestinians as 鈥榯he Others鈥�
THROUGHOUT history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of 鈥榯he Others.鈥� The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by supporting their empire鈥檚 predatory policies with slanted coverage...
The immense hunger
LIKE all living creatures, people need to eat to live. Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force, try to deny others this basic sustenance. All across the...
Fugitive death-row convict in Humayun Azad murder case arrested
The Anti-Terrorism Unit of Bangladesh Police has arrested a fugitive death-row convict in a case filed over the death of Dhaka University Professor Humayun Azad.