A court in Bogura has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death for raping his teenage daughter in Sherpur upazila. The court also ordered him to pay a fine of Tk 200,000. The verdict was delivered at around 10.30am on Thursday, 20 August, by Maruf Hossain, judge of the Bogura Children and Women Repression Prevention Tribunal […]

Malnourished children face a dramatically heightened vulnerability to measles, according to a landmark study revealing that sixty-five per cent of young patients hospitalised with the virus suffer from moderate to severe malnutrition. Conducted jointly by the Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), the research underscores a […]

The Forest Department has initiated two separate legal cases against sixty-two individuals, including political figures and local activists, for the illegal felling, theft, and trading of timber from protected forest zones. The crackdown targets illicit activities within the Satchari National Park and the Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary. The initial case focuses specifically on Satchari National Park, […]

Bus, truck, tanker lorry and covered van services across Chapainawabganj were suspended on Thursday morning after members of a transport workers’ organisation began an indefinite work stoppage, leaving passengers stranded and disrupting the movement of goods. The disruption began on 20 August amid a long-running dispute between the Chapainawabganj District Motor Workers’ Union and the […]

Police in Narsingdi have arrested a man following the tragic killing and subsequent clandestine burial of his wife, Hosne Ara Begum, in the Madhwadi area. The suspect, identified as forty-two-year-old Sharif Mia, was taken into custody on Wednesday night from his father-in-law’s residence in Noakanda village, located within the Kathalia Union. The victim, thirty-nine-year-old Hosne […]

The body of Tawfiq Nawaz, husband of Awami League leader and former minister Dipu Moni, was taken to Azad Mosque in Gulshan on Thursday for his funeral prayers. Nawaz, a Supreme Court lawyer, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Dhaka after suffering from prolonged kidney and liver complications. While his body was transported […]