A 22-year-old street vendor died from electrocution on Saturday evening after attempting to sever a live electrical cable using his teeth during an alleged theft in the capital’s Dhanmondi area. The victim, identified as Md Russel, was discovered unconscious outside a residential property in Madhubazar around 7:00 pm on 29 August. Local residents who witnessed […]

Tensions over leadership appointments to the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in Noakhali Sadar erupted into violence on Saturday afternoon, leaving at least ten political activists injured. Clashes broke out between two opposing factions of the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) across Ashwadia Union, turning local thoroughfares into chaotic battlegrounds and bringing regional […]

Sanitation workers operating across the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) are coming under violent assault from armed groups attempting to seize control of the lucrative local waste management trade. Armed men carrying weapons have been spotted patrolling residential lanes, threatening municipal staff, and vandalising refuse vehicles. As a result, primary waste collection across at least […]

Public life across Bangladesh has been plunged into severe distress as an unrelenting heatwave collides with a worsening energy crisis. A lethal combination of diminishing gas supplies, plummeting output at major coal-fired power stations, and an acute shortage of liquid fuel pushed the nation’s power deficit past the 3,500-megawatt (MW) mark on Saturday afternoon. From […]

A local youth wing leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has died in Chittagong following a physical altercation triggered by an argument over street vendors. The dispute arose when the victim protested against positioning rickshaw-van shops along a busy thoroughfare in the Chandgaon area of the city. The victim, identified as Fazal Amin, served […]

A popular Punjabi social media influencer, Manjeet Kaur, has died at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh after undergoing nearly two months of intensive medical treatment for severe burn injuries. The young woman succumbed to her wounds on 26 August following an extraordinary act of violence in which she was […]

Police authorities across Gazipur district recovered four bodies in separate incidents on Saturday, 29 August, including those of a child and a teenager. The fatalities stemmed from a violent dispute over cutting grass, a drowning following a missing person report, a discovery in a forest, and a fatal railway accident. In Kapasia sub-district, a ongoing […]