Sujit Kormokar, the headteacher of Damudya Pilot Girls’ High School in the Shariatpur district, was physically assaulted by a group of youths outside the school gates on Sunday morning. The attackers blocked his entry into the premises, assaulted him, and forced him into a three-wheeled motorised auto-rickshaw, where the physical abuse continued. Mr Kormokar has […]

The Habiganj 55 Battalion of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has significantly tightened security measures along the district’s international border to counteract an increasing trend of forced illegal infiltration—commonly referred to as “push-ins”—from India through various frontier routes. Operational security, continuous 24-hour patrols, and intelligence surveillance have been escalated across the district’s approximately 103-kilometre border […]

A total of seven children have died from measles-like symptoms across Bangladesh within the last 24 hours. According to the official measles report released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday, a combined total of 1,287 new cases involving both confirmed measles and related symptoms were recorded between 8:00 am on Saturday […]

The Dhaka Metropolitan Child Violence Suppression Tribunal has sentenced a man and his wife to death for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old child in the Pallabi area of Dhaka. On Sunday, Judge Masroor Salekin delivered the capital punishment verdict against the primary accused, Sohel Rana, and his wife, Swapna Akter, whilst offering critical […]

Residents of Ward No. 2 within the Natore Municipality have formally appealed to the District Commissioner (DC) for intervention to protect them from ongoing monkey attacks. On Thursday, 4 June, a written petition was submitted to the District Commissioner by Milon Akhand on behalf of more than one hundred affected residents of the Lalbazar neighbourhood. […]