[🇧🇩] Border Guard Bangladesh

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৬ দিন পাহাড় বেয়ে যেতে হয় সেই বর্ডারে, দিন রাত পাহারা দেন BGB, তাদের এই কঠোর পরিশ্রম দেশের জন্য

 

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As per the video, the number of Border Guards is seventy thousand. But in reality, the number of Border Guards is fifty seven thousand.

সেনাবাহিনীর আদলে শক্তিশালী হচ্ছে বর্ডার গার্ড বাংলাদেশ

 

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Ex-BGB DG Mainul barred from travelling abroad

Former director general of the Border Guard Bangladesh, then known as Bangladesh Rifles, retired lieutenant general Md Mainul Islam, was barred at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while attempting to travel abroad.

www.newagebd.net

Ex-BGB DG Mainul barred from travelling abroad
Staff Correspondent 24 December, 2024, 21:13

Md Mainul Islam | Collected photo

Former director general of the Border Guard Bangladesh, then known as Bangladesh Rifles, retired lieutenant general Md Mainul Islam, was barred at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while attempting to travel abroad.

Confirming the matter, Special Branch chief additional Golam Rasul said that the immigration police barred him at about 5:00pm on Tuesday as he was preparing to travel abroad.

The SB chief, however, could not confirm where Mainul’s destination was.

‘He has been instructed to assist the newly formed commission with necessary information about the 2009 BDR carnage. He has also been asked not to leave the country until the investigation is completed,’ he said.

Earlier on December 23, adviser to the home affairs ministry, retired lieutenant general Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said that the government formed a seven-member commission on reinvestigating the 2009 BDR carnage.

Mainul Islam was appointed as the director general of the then Bangladesh Rifles within 48 hours of the BDR mutiny on February 25-26 in 2009. He served there till May in 2010.

On February 25–26, 2009, in a mutiny 57 military officers, including the chief of the BDR Major General Shakil Ahmed, and 17 civilians were killed at the then BDR headquarters at Pilkhana in Dhaka city.

Bangladesh Rifles was officially renamed as the Border Guard Bangladesh in January 2011.

Mainul Islam is the brother of Mohammad Atiqul Islam, former mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation, who was arrested in capital’s Mohakhali DOHS area on October 16.​

 

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BGB seizes smuggled goods worth over Tk 2,184cr last year

The goods smuggled from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024 include gold, bronze, sarees, cosmetics, sugar, cigarette, and drugs, said a press release of the BGB

www.thedailystar.net

BGB seizes smuggled goods worth over Tk 2,184cr last year

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized a huge number of smuggled goods worth over Tk 2,184.28 crore from different frontiers and parts of the country in the last year.

The goods smuggled from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024 include gold, bronze, sarees, cosmetics, sugar, cigarette, and drugs, said a press release of the BGB.

During this period, the BGB arrested 2,088 people over their alleged involvement in smuggling of those goods.

Legal actions have been taken against them.

The seized contraband items include 131.424kg gold, 137.289kg silver, 2,14,805 sarees, 3,322,361 cosmetic items, 61,144 pieces of imitation jewellery, 17 touchstone-made statues, 14.81kg of snake venom, 8.398kg of whale vomit (ambergris), 38.4kg of turtle bones, 2,51,64,507 pieces of fireworks, 207 trucks and covered vans, 8 buses, 47 private cars and microbuses, 91 pickups, 873 motorcycles, and 235 bicycles.

The weapons recovered during the same period included 38 pistols, 5 SMGs, 18 grenades, 8 rifles, 6 revolvers, 52 guns, 8,859 rounds of ammunition, 45 magazines, 4 mortar shells, 41 cocktails, 10.44kg of gun powder, and 233 blank cartridges.​