Residents of Bagha upazila in Rajshahi are facing severe disruption to daily life as prolonged power cuts have affected all seven unions. In some rural areas, electricity is reportedly unavailable for almost half of a 24-hour period, leaving households, farmers, students and businesses struggling to maintain normal activities. The local Rural Electricity authority says the […]

A woman was shot in the waist after a group of armed men opened fire at her husband while searching for their son in Khulna on Monday morning. The incident took place at around 10.30am on 10 August in the Karimnagar area of Sonadanga, in front of an office of the West Zone Power Distribution […]

Two more children have died in Sylhet over the past 24 hours while suffering from symptoms associated with measles, raising the number of deaths linked to the ongoing outbreak in the division to 127. The deaths were confirmed by the divisional health authorities on Monday morning, 10 August. The two children, identified as Taspia and […]

A court in Jamalpur has sentenced two men to death for raping a woman in Dewanganj upazila, also ordering each of them to pay a fine of Tk 100,000. The verdict was delivered on Monday, 10 August, by Judge Muhammad Abdur Rahim of the Jamalpur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1. Both convicts were present […]

A young assistant judge was killed after the private car carrying him crashed into the rear of a stationary truck loaded with steel rods in Jamalpur early Monday morning. The accident occurred on the Jamalpur–Mymensingh highway near Lahirikanda Bazar in Jamalpur Sadar Upazila. The collision left the car driver seriously injured and trapped the judge […]

A total of 482 people were arrested in Dhaka during a 24-hour anti-crime operation conducted by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, with 48 cases filed in connection with the drive. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Niaz Mehedi disclosed the information on Monday, 10 August. He said the arrests were made during routine and targeted operations carried […]

A 30-year-old man was found dead beside an abandoned flour mill in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha, on Monday morning, hours after he was reportedly called out of his home at night on the pretext of having a conversation. Police recovered the body of the man, identified as Laizu, from beside the abandoned flour mill in the Mogam […]