A 26-year-old man has died in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district after allegedly being tied to an electricity pole and repeatedly beaten by a group of people who suspected him of theft. The incident took place on Tuesday morning at the home of Mawlana Kefayet Ullah in Miyazir Para, in the East Fakiraghona area of Boromaheshkhali […]

Police have arrested five people, including a local leader of the Jubo Dal, in connection with the alleged theft of electrical transformers belonging to the rural power network in Madarganj upazila of Jamalpur. The arrests were made during separate raids in different parts of the upazila on Monday night, 14 September. The five suspects were […]

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has instructed field-level officers to take responsibility if political marches, gatherings or other disruptive incidents occur within their jurisdictions, stressing that law enforcement must focus on preventing such incidents rather than responding only after they take place. The directive was issued at the DMP’s monthly crime review meeting, or crime conference, […]

A journalist’s home in Dhaka’s Pallabi area came under attack late on Monday night, with gunshots reportedly fired at the residence of private television channel reporter Pranta Parvez. The incident took place at around 2.15am on Tuesday in the Sabuj Bangla residential area of Pallabi. According to Parvez, four men arrived at his residence on […]