A twenty-eight-year-old man, identified as Tausif Islam, tragically lost his life on Wednesday morning following a road accident in the capital’s Khilkhet area. The incident occurred at approximately 10:00 am when a fuel tanker collided with the motorcycle on which he was travelling as a passenger. Tausif, the son of Kamrul Islam, hailed from Kachijhuli […]

Greece has deported 50 irregular migrants from Bangladesh and Pakistan on a special charter flight, including a 27-year-old Bangladeshi man whose TikTok video sparked controversy over claims that undocumented migrants could live and work in the country without being detected by the police. Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Thanos Plevris confirmed the deportation, describing […]

Three people, including a woman and a child, were killed after an unidentified vehicle struck their motorcycle on the Shafipur Flyover along the Dhaka–Tangail Highway in Gazipur. The motorcycle rider was also among the victims. Police initially suspect that all three may have belonged to the same family, although their identities and relationships had not […]

A tribunal in Cumilla has handed down the death penalty to a faith healer following the brutal murder of a Cumilla University student and her mother inside their residence. On Wednesday, 11 November, Judge Yasir Arafat of the Cumilla Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict in a crowded courtroom. The court also […]

Six more children have succumbed to measles-like symptoms in Bangladesh over a 24-hour reporting period, bringing the total number of fatalities linked to suspected and confirmed cases to 1,295 since mid-March. According to the latest daily bulletin released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday, no fatalities directly confirmed as lab-tested measles […]

Every day, before dawn breaks, 27-year-old garment worker Shilpi Khatun lights a makeshift clay stove with firewood to prepare meals for her family. They cannot afford to buy a gas cylinder. Once the cooking is done, she leaves home for a garment factory in Gazipur, an industrial hub on the outskirts of Dhaka. Shilpi is […]

Unidentified miscreants set fire to two passenger buses parked along a main thoroughfare in the Pallabi area of the capital early on Wednesday morning. The targeted vehicles belonged to Bikolpa Paribahan and Abhijat Paribahan, two prominent local public transport operators. Though no casualties were reported, the sudden arson attack damaged both buses and caused a […]