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India to establish ‘smart border’ system along Bangladesh, Pakistan frontiers: reports

News Desk Indian media reports say the government is preparing to launch a sweeping “smart border” initiative aimed at tightening security along the country’s frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh. In

No bribe, no service: Life trapped everywhere in a cycle of bribes

Online Desk: From birth certificates to death records, bribery has become deeply embedded in the daily lives of ordinary citizens in Bangladesh. Across multiple sectors, people are being forced to

Ramisa’s father hopes for fair justice after assurance of PM

Staff Reporter: After visiting by the Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, Abdul Hannan Mollah, father of slain Ramisa expressed hope to get fair and exemplary justice over raping and killing his

PM Tarique Rahman visits slain Ramisa’s family residence at Pallabi

BSS: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman visited at the residence of the family of eight-year-old Ramisa Akter, who was recently killed in the city’s Pallabi area. The PM arrived at the

Crowd tries to seize child sexual assault suspect from police in Chattogram’s Bakalia

Police say hundreds gathered after a four-year-old girl’s family accused a local shop worker of sexually abusing her Ctg Correspondent: Tension flared in Chattogram city’s Bakalia area this afternoon after

SB HQ ‘unaware’ of journalists’ political identities, personal data collection

TDS Desk: The headquarters of the police’s Special Branch (SB) has been left “completely in the dark” about field-level operatives knocking on journalists’ doors or phoning them to demand extensive