Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has tightened its vigilance to prevent diesel smuggling through Benapole border. BGB members were seen patrolling the import-export gate of Benapole landport at noon. Read: Consumers have to bear some of the burden of increased fuel price: Finance Minister The oil tank of trucks arriving at Benapole landport with imported goods from India is being measured with a scale and recorded in the registrar's book and the trucks are being rechecked at the time of departure. When the price of diesel in Bangladesh was Tk 65.20 per liter, the price in India was Rs 101.56 per liter (Tk 118.78). On November 4, the price of diesel in Bangladesh was increased to Tk 80 per liter while its price in India was reduced to Rs 89.79 (Tk 105). Ari Hossain, general secretary of the Benapole Importers and Exporters Association, said due to the high price of diesel in India, smugglers used to fill barrels with diesel from various fuel stations and supplied it to Indian trucks through pipes. Read: CPD for reinstating previous fuel prices A diesel smuggling syndicate was active in the landport area and they have become inactive due to BGB vigilance, he added. Jashore-49 BGB Battalion Commanding Officer Lt Colonel Selim Reza said instructions have been given from the headquarters to increase surveillance to prevent fuel smuggling to India.

Around 5,000 trucks loaded with goods are waiting to cross into Bangladesh at India's Petrapole land port,  on the other side of the Benapole border. While they have been stranded, trade between the two countries has been greatly affected. It has already had a major impact on revenue collection (import duties).

Thirty-three Bangladeshis, who returned from India through Benapole border Friday night, were sent to institutional quarantine Saturday as they did not have Covid-19 negative certificates.

Members of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) detained seven Rohingyas including women and children while being trafficked to India through Putkhali border on Wednesday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested  three suspected arms dealers along with 11 Pistol, 22 magazines, 50 rounds of ammunition and 14 kg of hemp at Ghiba border under Benapole Port Police Station on Saturday.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in the border area of Bahadurpur in Benapole early Friday.

A suspected drug trader was shot and wounded by members of Border Guard Bangladesh at Putkhali along Benapole border on early Thursday.

Police arrested 10 criminals from the Benapole border of Jashore district on Wednesday.

Ten Bangladeshi women, who served jail term in India for illegal entry, were handed over to Bangladesh authorities on Monday through the Benapole land port.