Police have arrested former Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology NM Ziaul Alam. A case has been filed against him for embezzling Tk. 20,000 crore by leaking and selling National Identity Card (NID) data.

He was arrested on Tuesday (March 4) night. However, the matter came to light after the afternoon of Wednesday (March 5). In the afternoon, a team from the Cyber Investigation Division of the CID left for Dhaka with the former secretary.
He did not reach the CID office in Dhaka until 10 pm on Wednesday (March 5). He may be produced in court and remanded for questioning on Thursday (March 6).

Additional DIG of the CID Cyber Police Center Ashrafuzzaman Daula confirmed this information and said that a case was filed at the Kafrul Police Station in Dhaka on charges of granting business permission to a company named Digicon Global Services Limited using NID data. Former senior secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, NM Ziaul Alam, who was arrested in this case is also an accused. A person named Enamul Haque filed the case on October 9 last year.
The names of 19 people, including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and former State Minister for Information Technology Junaid Ahmed Palak, were mentioned in the case.

In this case filed under the Cyber Security Act, the plaintiff alleged that the defendants leaked and sold National Identity Card (NID) information through the relevant organization. Through that organization (Digicon), NID information was sold to about 182 organizations in the country and abroad without ensuring national security and personal information security, and about 20 thousand crore taka was embezzled.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Chattogram Panchlaish Police Station, Mohammad Solaiman, said that based on information from the CID, former senior secretary NM Ziaul Alam was arrested from the house of a doctor of Chattogram Medical College behind Panchlaish Police Station on Tuesday night. The doctor is the elder brother of the arrested secretary's wife. After the arrest, the CID team left for Dhaka with him on Wednesday afternoon.

Bangladesh has advanced three places in the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) compared to the previous year. Last year, Bangladesh was ranked 32nd in this index, but this year it is 35th. This improvement has been due to the decrease in the impact of terrorism in Bangladesh in terms of terrorist activities.

These data have emerged in the Global Terrorism Index-2025 published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney-based research institute in Australia, on Wednesday (March 5). The IEP publishes this index every year for a period of five years since 2012, calculating scores based on the main global trends and characteristics of terrorism around the world.

The 12th edition of the Institute for Economics and Peace said that the impact of terrorism in Bangladesh was lower in 2024 compared to the regional averages of India, Pakistan and South Asia.

Bangladesh scored 3.03 in the 2025 GTI index. If a country gets a score of zero on a scale of zero to 10, it is assumed that there is no impact of terrorism in that country. In addition, if a country gets a score of 10, that country is considered to have the highest incidence of terrorism.

This year, the Institute for Economics and Peace has ranked 100 countries in the world. Bangladesh is ranked 35th in the index with a score of 3.03. Last year, Bangladesh was ranked 32nd in this global terrorism index.

The Institute for Economics and Peace has prepared this global terrorism index based on the statistics of terrorist attacks, deaths or injuries in attacks and hostages taken by terrorists in a year around the world.

The IEP has identified a significant increase in terrorist activities in Pakistan as the primary reason for the poor ranking of the South Asian region in the global terrorism index.

The IEP said that the improvement in the South Asian region has been due to the decrease in terrorist activities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. According to the report, Afghanistan and Pakistan have the worst GTI scores in this region. These two countries are in the list of the ten countries with the worst terrorism situation in the world.

The index says that Pakistan is the most terrorist country in the South Asian region. The country's score is 8.374. At the same time, Pakistan is ranked second in the Global Terrorism Index. After Pakistan, Afghanistan is ranked second in the Global Terrorism Index with a score of 7.262. In addition, India is ranked 14th in the Global Terrorism Index with a score of 6.411.

The fire that broke out in the Shahi Masjid slum in front of the European University in Gabtoli, the capital, has been brought under control.

The fire was brought under control at 4:36 am on Thursday (March 6), the Fire Service headquarters said.

Earlier, the fire broke out at 3:08 am on Wednesday (March 5). Later, after receiving information, 8 units of the Fire Service worked to control the fire.

The Fire Service could not provide any information about the cause of the fire, damage or casualties.

Sarjis Alam, the chief organizer of the northern region of the National Citizens Party (NCP), has been attacked by a section of students in the Bashundhara residential area of the capital.

A video containing such a demand went viral on social media on Wednesday (March 5) night. Then, after 2 am, Sarjis Alam made a post on social media.

In his Facebook post, he wrote, 'After iftar, I went to have tea with my fellow students from the private university in the Bashundhara residential area and listen to their stories. From 7 pm to 10 pm, we chatted with them, listened to their stories, and had tea.

I was walking in front of NSU after chatting with more than a hundred fellow students from 4 private universities - NSU, IUB, AIUB, UIU. There were 15-20 fellow students from the private university with me. Later, in front of the NSU gate, I saw 10-12 people shouting slogans about the DU syndicate. Among them was the central leader of Chhatra Dal, Ahmed Shakil. I went forward to listen to them. But they deliberately started abusing the private students who were with me. Although 1-2 of them seemed to be students, the rest seemed to be hired thugs. Realizing that their intention was to create an embarrassing situation, I asked both parties to leave and left.

Later, Chhatra Dal's Shakil, under his leadership, along with the thugs who were with him attacked the boys from the private university who were with me earlier with sharp weapons and directly hit them on the head and back, causing multiple people to bleed. Chhatra Dal's Shakil and the other thugs should be brought to justice quickly.

After being persecuted by the Tokai League for 16 years, if anyone from the Chhatra Dal behaves like the terrorists of the Tokai League today, it won't take long for them to end up like the Tokai League. Learn, learn from the recent past while you have time.'

Meanwhile, someone shared a video on Facebook and wrote, 'After depriving the students of private universities in the NCP, Sarjis Alam was coming to the Bashundhara residential area today with his followers to hold a showdown in this area. Hearing this news, general students of North South University, AIUB, IUB universities gathered and protested the attack on the students of private universities on the day of the party's debut at Dhaka University. At this time, Sarjis' followers attacked the students and raised their hands. Later, in the face of collective resistance, Sarjis got into his car and retreated from the Bashundhara area. At this time, general students declared Sarjis unwanted in the Bashundhara area.'