The iconic oyster-shaped railway station in Cox’s Bazar, located six kilometres from the town’s beach area in Chander Para, remains severely underutilised. Inaugurated on 11 November 2023 following an investment of approximately 236 crore BDT (£21.5 million), the terminal has crossed two and a half years of existence. Although the physical infrastructure was fully constructed, […]

A major road accident occurred along the Dhaka-Khulna Highway on Sunday, 31 May, when a passenger coach veered off the road and overturned into a wayside ditch in Faridpur district’s Nagarkanda Upazila. The transport accident resulted in injuries to twenty-three passengers. Incident Details and Emergency Mobilisation The vehicle, operated by the “Al Borak” transport company, […]

The seven-day public holiday enforced across Bangladesh for the celebration of Eid al-Adha drawing to a close on Sunday, 31 May 2026, administrative, judicial, and financial sectors are prepared to resume regular operations. From Monday, 1 June 2026, all government, semi-government, autonomous, semi-autonomous, and private offices, alongside courts, banks, insurance companies, and the country’s dual […]

The Bangladesh Coast Guard has detained two suspected smugglers and seized a cache of 112 cans of imported beer during a targeted anti-narcotics operation in the Patenga district of Chittagong. Alongside the contraband beverages, maritime law enforcement officers confiscated a compressed natural gas (CNG) powered auto-rickshaw used to transport the goods, a sum of cash, […]

A ten-to-eleven-year-old Bengal tigress, rescued from a deer poacher’s trap in the Sundarbans earlier this year, has fully recovered after five months of intensive veterinary care. The forest department is preparing to repatriate the animal to her natural habitat, with the final phase of the translocation tentatively scheduled for June 2026. The incident began on […]