A destructive fire has swept through the Matrix Style garment factory, situated adjacent to Maleker Bari in the Digirchala district of Gazipur metropolis. The industrial blaze began early on Saturday morning, triggering an emergency mobilisation of the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence. Five specialized firefighting teams were deployed to the industrial complex to battle […]

Fourteen Bangladeshi citizens who fell victim to human trafficking rings have been repatriated to their home country through the Benapole land border. The group, consisting of both men and women, was delivered to Bangladeshi border officials on Friday evening after being detained in India for unlawful entry, having originally crossed the border under the false […]

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has placed fifteen regions under an urgent weather alert, forecasting atmospheric instability characterised by gale-force winds, lightning, and heavy thundery showers. In response to the encroaching weather fronts, the state meteorological authority has directed all inland river ports within the affected zones to display Local Cautionary Signal Number One. The […]

The Chittagong District Police have successfully detained a notorious local figure, Milad Hossain Bablu—widely known by the alias “Chheni Bablu”—during a specialised law enforcement operation in the Sandwip sub-district of Chittagong. The 35-year-old suspect, classified by intelligence files as a top-tier regional criminal, was captured along with an associate identified as 36-year-old Mohammad Jewel Rana. […]

Operations on Dhaka’s mass rapid transit system were briefly disrupted on Saturday, 13 June, after a stray cat wandered onto the railway tracks of MRT Line-6. For precautionary and safety reasons, transit authorities halted all train movements for a duration of ten minutes while an emergency rescue operation was carried out to clear the line. […]