Five more children have died after exhibiting symptoms of measles in Bangladesh, as public health officials grapple with a substantial surge in infections. According to the daily bulletin issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the fatalities occurred during a 24-hour monitoring period between Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon. Although no laboratory-confirmed deaths […]

A serious administrative blunder has disrupted the ongoing Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations in Bogura, where dozens of students were mistakenly handed question papers from the previous year. The incident, which occurred at the Shibganj Government MH College centre, has sparked widespread anger and anxiety among candidates and their parents. The mix-up took place on […]

A 26-year-old resident of Lahore, Pakistan, has travelled thousands of miles to Jazira upazila in Shariatpur, Bangladesh, to marry a teenage woman following a four-year romantic relationship cultivated entirely on social media. Mozammel Hossain arrived in Bangladesh on 11 July to wed 19-year-old Tanzila, and the newly-wed couple is currently preparing to relocate to Pakistan, […]

A special tribunal in Tangail has sentenced a young man to death for the abduction and brutal murder of a nine-year-old primary school student. The verdict was delivered on Wednesday afternoon by Judge A.N.M. Elias of the Tangail Prevention of Woman and Child Repression Tribunal. The convict, identified as 21-year-old Sabbir Miah, is the son […]

A joint law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of a 54-year-old man in Gaibandha, suspected of murdering a local farmer during the theft of a crucial agricultural irrigation transformer. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) apprehended the suspect, identified as Shahidul Islam, who is believed to be part of an organised criminal syndicate targeting […]