Crackdown

Prison Headquarters. Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

Prisons dept cracks down on corruption

A total of 12 officials were dismissed, six were sent on forced retirement, and 84 were suspended in the last seven months

CMP crackdown: 28 more held in last 24 hours, 329 arrested in 12 days
Law & order

CMP crackdown: 28 more held in last 24 hours, 329 arrested in 12 days

During the operations, 11 brick kilns were shut down, and closure orders were issued for two more. Photo: Courtesy
Environment

DoE fines illegal brick kilns Tk1.14 crore in nationwide crackdown

Fighters of the ruling Syrian sit in a vehicle, after Syria's Bashar al-Assad was ousted, in Damascus, Syria, December 26, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Middle East

Syria's new rulers declare crackdown as tensions flare in coastal area

DB Joint Commissioner Talebur Rahman talks to media at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Headquarters on Tuesday, 29 October 2024. Photo: UNB
Crime

DB to launch stronger crackdown on counterfeit stamp and currency syndicates

NBR Office in Dhaka. File Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

NBR intensifies crackdown on major tax evaders

Foysal Ahmed Shanto, who was killed in a protest after being shot. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

‘Bring back my brother’: Brishty still faints from grief over her brother Foysal’s death

China launches online crackdown on 'harmful' content targeting children
China

China launches online crackdown on 'harmful' content targeting children

Mecca, June 18, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman
Middle East

Egypt cracks down on tourism companies after hajj deaths

A collage of arrested BNP leaders, Central BNP Divisional Organising Secretary Advocate Bilkis Jahan Shirin, Barishal BNP Convener Moniruzzaman Farooq, and South District BNP Convener Abul Hossain Khan. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

10 BNP activists, including unit convener and organising secretary, arrested in Barishal

File Photo: Reuters
South Asia

India arrests 1,000 people in child marriage crackdown

A smartphone displays the apps for Facebook and Messenger in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. The European Union on Wednesday targeted Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
Tech

EU targets Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft in next phase of digital crackdown

FILE PHOTO: A sign above an office of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is seen in Beijing, China 8 July, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
World+Biz

China shuts 100,000 fake news social media accounts, ramps up content cleanup