A 24-year-old man has been accused of killing his mother by attacking her with a machete and killing his six-month-old niece by repeatedly slamming her to the ground in Devibidwar, Cumilla. His sister-in-law, who reportedly tried to intervene and protect the infant, was also seriously injured in the attack. The incident took place at around […]

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 […]

Bangladesh’s national teams are heading into a busy stretch of international cricket, but neither the men’s nor the women’s side will have a member of the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) selection panel travelling with them on their next overseas assignments. The Bangladesh men’s team are currently preparing in Mirpur, with the likes of Najmul Hossain […]