Police investigators in Pabna have uncovered horrifying details during the interrogation of suspects held over the rape and dismemberment of a ten-year-old schoolgirl, whose body was discovered hidden inside a sack a week after her disappearance. Kamrunnahar Koli, a primary school pupil in class four, went missing on the evening of 9 September from Kulunia […]

A routine demand for unpaid daily wages escalated into severe violence in Patuakhali’s Bauphal upazila on Monday morning, leaving four members of the same family critically injured following an attack with sharp weapons. The incident occurred around 7:00 am in Ward No. 1 of Goalia Bagha village, situated within the Surjamani Union. The victims have […]

Police have formally applied for a seven-day remand to interrogate Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami MP Gazi Nazrul Islam and his first wife, Maksuda Begum, following the death of his second wife at a government residence in Dhaka. The investigative officer, Sub-Inspector Shamsuddoha Sarkar of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, submitted the remand prayer before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates’ […]

A series of persistent incoming calls to a key suspect’s mobile phone has enabled police officers to untangle the motives behind the murder of Ishayat Shahriar Apratim, the 13-year-old only child of Dr Nahida Begum, an associate professor in the Bengali Department at Comilla University. Investigators now suspect that a fatal mixture of an iPhone […]

A devastating series of traffic accidents in Bogura has claimed three lives and left six others injured, highlighting the perilous state of highway safety in northern Bangladesh. The tragedy unfolded in two sequential collisions on Monday morning, where a family transporting the bodies of their deceased relatives from the initial crash was struck again by […]

A harrowing incident unfolded in the port city of Chittagong on Saturday night when an addicted father allegedly abducted his 20-month-old daughter to sell her to fund his substance abuse. The child was successfully reunited with her mother following a swift operation by the police, triggered by a desperate plea to the national emergency helpline […]

Officers from the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) have arrested an alleged drug dealer following a targeted afternoon raid in Manikganj’s Shibaloy upazila. Acting on targeted intelligence, an operational team spearheaded by Sub-Inspector Morshed Alam conducted a search at approximately 1:15 pm at a residential property in the Jhoriar Bag Chorkandi area. The operation, supervised […]

A leader of the National Citizen Party (NCP) in Chandpur’s Shahrashti has been accused of leaving home with the wife of a Bahrain-based expatriate worker. A written complaint has been lodged with Shahrashti Model Police Station over the incident, and police have said they have begun looking into the matter. According to the complaint, the […]

Bangladesh Bank has released the latest foreign currency exchange rates for Sunday, 20 September 2026, outlining the purchase and sale valuations of major global currencies against the Bangladeshi Taka (BDT) across the domestic banking sector. According to the central bank’s published figures, the United States Dollar (USD) stands at BDT 122.90 for buying and BDT […]