Police in Madarganj have arrested five men, including a local opposition politician, in connection with a series of electrical transformer thefts from the rural electricity network. The suspects were remanded in judicial custody by a court on Tuesday, 15 September, following overnight raids across various parts of the upazila in Jamalpur district. Officers executed the […]

In a notable political boycott, leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Sylhet, alongside several party Members of Parliament, refrained from attending a civic reception organised by the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) in honour of President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. The event was held during his maiden one-day official visit to the holy city […]

A 25-year-old fish vendor was hacked to death by members of a juvenile gang while getting a haircut inside a barber shop in Keraniganj. Family members and eyewitnesses claimed that the brutal murder stemmed from a feud over extortion demands and setting up a makeshift pavement shop in the nearby Mohammadpur area. The horrific incident […]

A notorious serial killer who made a profession of murdering easy-bike drivers to snatch their battery-powered auto-rickshaws has been apprehended by the Detective Branch (DB) of police in Cumilla. The suspect, 25-year-old Abdul Wadud Manik, was arrested after detectives successfully unravelled two recent homicide cases across Nangalkot and Monohargonj upazilas. Additional Superintendent of Police Lutfur […]

Police in Faridpur have recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified woman from the Padma River, tied down with heavy concrete blocks and bricks. Officers from the C&B Ghat River Police outpost retrieved the corpse around 11:00 am on Monday, 15 September, near the Kabirpur area under Dikrirchar Union in Faridpur Sadar upazila. The discovery […]

A devastating drowning incident took two young lives in Batiaghata upazila under Khulna district after two minor girls slipped underwater while bathing in a canal near their homes. The tragedy occurred on the evening of Monday, 14 September, in the Arafat Nagar locality within Raingemari village, situated under Jalma Union. The sudden loss of the […]

Agriculture officials in Raipur upazila under Lakshmipur district seized approximately 60 bags of illicitly hoarded chemical fertiliser following targeted raids across three retail shops and a private warehouse owned by a local political figure. The drive was carried out on the afternoon of Monday, 14 September, in South Charbanshi Union to curb artificial supply crunches […]