Widespread power cuts hit Dhaka and districts across Bangladesh on Saturday, disrupting what is usually a low-demand weekend as generation plummeted at multiple coal-fired power stations and cross-border import volumes fell. By late afternoon, national transmission data revealed a deficit exceeding 1,900 megawatts (MW), leaving consumers in several neighbourhoods of the capital grappling with two […]

Narcotics control officers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka have arrested an Indian national attempting to smuggle three kilograms of kush, a premium grade of cannabis, into Bangladesh. The seizure follows a separate incident days earlier where two other Indian nationals abandoned over four kilograms of the same illicit substance before fleeing the terminal. […]

Police in Rangpur have recovered the decomposing bodies of a retired schoolteacher, his wife, and their two children from different parts of their locked multi-storey residence. The deceased have been identified as Ganapati Chakraborty Jewel, 65, his wife Pritilata Chakraborty Bala, 50, their daughter Prarthi Chakraborty, 25, and their 12-year-old son, Priyam Chakraborty. The family […]

Intelligence agencies and law enforcement authorities in Bangladesh have stepped up security measures following a direct terror threat against the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka. The threat, delivered via email on Wednesday night in the name of an extremist organisation, prompted senior counter-terrorism officials and police headquarters to hold emergency security appraisals with Chinese Ambassador Yao […]

An armed gang held five factory employees hostage during an audacious night-time heist at a textile knitting facility in Gazipur, making off with 7,350 kilograms of processed yarn and cash valued collectively at around 3.15 million taka. The raid unfolded in the early hours of Saturday at Mirza Apparels Limited, situated in the Bara Bhabanipur […]

A veterinary practitioner was assaulted, his clinic ransacked, and a substantial sum of money looted by a group allegedly led by a local student political leader in Mymensingh. The victim claimed the violent attack was carried out after he refused to pay an extortion demand of 500,000 taka. In the wake of the incident and […]

A crippling natural gas shortage across Bangladesh’s industrial belts has forced the closure of nearly 300 factories, bringing manufacturing to an abrupt halt and threatening billions in export earnings. Sounding the alarm on Saturday evening, Mohammad Hatem, President of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA), warned that garment manufacturers have their backs to […]

The felling of approximately 4,500 roadside trees along a 19-kilometre stretch of the Sunamganj-Sachna highway has sparked fierce public backlash, with highway authorities confirming that no road-widening scheme exists to justify the clearance. The logging operation, initiated by the Forest Department on land managed by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD), has triggered street demonstrations […]

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has withdrawn the Officers in Charge (OCs) of two key capital police stations, Tejgaon and Paltan Model, citing administrative reasons. The directive was issued on Saturday through an official order signed by Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mosleh Uddin Ahmed. Under the fresh transfer notification, both officers have been relieved of their […]