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Scams, smuggling, battlefields: How flawed vetting sent our workers into harm's way

Over the past 18 months, the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) granted official emigration clearance to 15,921 Bangladeshis to travel to Cambodia.

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332 held for illegal border crossings in June, contraband worth over Tk307cr seized

Udaynagar Border Outpost (BOP) under Kushtia Battalion (47 BGB) today (6 July) recovered a foreign-made pistol, two magazines and three rounds of live ammunition during a drive at Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila frontier. Photo: Collected

BGB busts illegal arms cache on Kushtia frontier; seizes foreign-made pistol, ammunition 

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Bangladeshi killed in BSF firing along Moulvibazar border

Coast guard has seized 7,000 litres of jet fuel, 6,000 litres of diesel, and 1,500 litres of octane. Photo: Collected

Coast Guard seizes jet fuel, diesel, soybean oil in Patenga raids

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7 held with trawler in Ctg for 'smuggling' diesel, tar to Myanmar

This picture taken on March 25, 2024 shows a grassland earless dragon lizard at the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve located on the outskirts of the Australian capital city of Canberra. Photo: AFP/File

Australian man jailed for mailing reptiles in popcorn bags

The 76 trees were thwarting an alleged attempt to smuggle them from the Chittagong University area. 4 February 2026. Photo: TBS

Alleged unusual tree smuggling attempt foiled at Chittagong University

File photo of Diamond World owner Dilip Kumar Agarwala. Photo: Collected

CID files Tk678 crore money laundering case against Diamond World owner Dilip Agarwala

A touchstone Shiva Lingam was recovered in Sirajganj. Photo: BSS

3 held with 94kg touchstone Shiva Lingam in Sirajganj

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Tk12.63cr worth illegal mobile phone displays, blankets seized in Brahmanbaria

BGB recovers smuggled Indian goods worth Tk13 lakh in Kushtia on 24 September 2025. Photo: TBS

BGB seizes smuggled Indian goods worth over Tk13 lakh in Kushtia

The Coast Guard officials detained 10 people and seized daily essentials worth about Tk37 lakh from a trawler in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar on Friday, 19 September 2025. Photo: Coast Guard

10 detained with Tk37 lakh goods while smuggling near Saint Martin’s