A ruthless human trafficking network is luring Bangladeshi youths with promises of lucrative employment in Italy, only to trap them in brutal detention centres across Libya to extract heavy ransoms. Operating in close coordination with local armed gangs in the North African nation, the syndicate orchestrates systematic hostage-taking, using severe torture to force victims’ families […]

Excessive smartphone dependence and unregulated social media usage are rapidly eroding the habit of reading books among the younger generation, warned Fakir Mahbub Anam, Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. Addressing an audience at Dhaka University, the minister voiced deep concern over the proliferation of inappropriate digital material, emphasising that harmful content online is […]

District police in Cumilla have apprehended 93 suspected drug dealers in a sweeping 24-hour anti-narcotics operation spanning every police station across the district. The coordinated drive saw law enforcement units conduct 44 simultaneous raids targeting established trafficking networks, local peddlers, and supply dens. Additional Superintendent of Police (Administration and Finance) Ishtiaque Hasan Ameen confirmed the […]

Police have recovered the body of a 60-year-old local Awami League politician from a roadside ditch near his residence in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba Upazila, two days after he went missing under suspicious circumstances. Officers retrieved the remains of Nayeb Ali on Friday afternoon from Dhajnagar, a border village situated in the upazila’s Gopinathpur Union. The deceased, […]

A government welfare initiative aimed at providing monthly financial honourariums to grassroots Islamic clerics and staff has sparked intense controversy in Keshabpur, Jashore, following allegations that local political figures usurped the names of genuine religious workers on official beneficiary rosters. The dispute centred on Garbhanga Baitun Nur Jame Mosque in Panjia Union, where long-serving staff […]

Bodies of Seven Bangladeshis Handed Over Following Kolkata FireThe bodies of seven Bangladeshi nationals who died in a devastating fire at a residential hotel in Kolkata’s central New Market area have been handed over to their grief-stricken relatives following the completion of post-mortem examinations. The forensic procedures were conducted on Friday at the mortuary of […]