narcotics-control

Drug abuse has spread from the capital to rural towns across Bangladesh. There is hardly any neighborhood where yaba, heroin, phensedyl, cannabis and other narcotics are unavailable. This destructive addiction has drawn in school, college and university students along with people from nearly every profession. A survey by the Department of Narcotics Control says that 10 million people out of Bangladesh’s population of 170 million are addicted to drugs. That equals 5.88 percent of the country’s to...

Amid nationwide debate and tensions over a drug raid conducted by former State Minister for Liberation War Affairs and Dhaka 6 lawmaker Ishraque Hossain while carrying a firearm, an anti drug operation was conducted in the Geneva Camp area of Mohammadpur from the office of Dhaka 13 lawmaker and State Minister for Education Bobby Hajjaj without notifying the police. During the operation, a 30 year old man named Arif Hossain was beaten and suffered a head injury that left his scalp split ope...