An Indonesian domestic worker, who had been enduring severe physical and mental abuse for nearly 16 years in Selangor’s Batu Caves area, has finally been rescued by the Malaysian Immigration Department. She was recovered from a house during a special operation conducted on Monday (24 November). According to Immigration Director-General Datuk Jakaría Shaban, when officers […]

An armed attack and mugging took place in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area at noon, targeting Sabina Yasmin (35), an NGO worker. The assailants fled after looting her money and jewellery. The incident occurred around 2:30pm on Wednesday (26 November) in the Dholairpar area of Jatrabari. Colleagues rescued Sabina in a critically injured condition and took her […]

A wintry ambience is sweeping across the country, and the slight drop in temperature has increased the chill in Dhaka. On Thursday at 6am, the temperature in the capital was recorded at 17.8°C, with humidity at 84 percent. On Wednesday (26 November) at the same time, Dhaka’s temperature stood at 19°C with 88 percent humidity. […]

Several areas of Kaliganj upazila in Gazipur will experience a power outage on Thursday due to maintenance work on the national grid line. The information was confirmed by Md Akhtar Hossain, Deputy General Manager of the Kaliganj Zonal Office under Gazipur Palli Bidyut Samity-1. He stated that maintenance work will be carried out from 8am […]

An earthquake in the Bay of Bengal caused tremors in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar at midnight. The 4-magnitude quake originated 118 kilometres from Teknaf at 3:29am on Thursday.   The information was provided by the earthquake-monitoring website Volcano Discovery. It stated that most people in Teknaf did not feel the tremor as it was very […]

The government has simultaneously transferred a total of 158 Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNOs) across eight divisions of the country. A notification in this regard was issued by the Ministry of Public Administration on Wednesday night. The notification stated that the officials must be released from their current workplaces and join their new postings by 30 […]