Law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh’s capital have detained 478 individuals during a sweeping 24-hour security operation. The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) confirmed that the arrests took place on Friday, 13 November, following coordinated drives across various police station jurisdictions in the city. Alongside the detentions, officers filed 62 separate cases and seized substantial quantities of […]

Panic briefly gripped the border town of Hili in Dinajpur late on Friday night after a crude bomb exploded directly in front of the local Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) office. Law enforcement personnel subsequently recovered a second, unexploded device from the scene, though no casualties were reported in the incident. The explosion occurred at approximately […]

Police in Munshiganj have arrested and jailed a local mosque imam on charges of raping a 13-year-old girl under the guise of performing a spiritual exorcism. The accused, identified as 47-year-old Rezaul Bari, was formally shown arrested on Friday morning following a formal complaint lodged by the victim’s mother at Sreenagar Police Station. Bari, originally […]

Police have recovered the bloodied body of a 66-year-old former border guard near the Ramgarh frontier in Bangladesh’s southeastern hill district of Khagrachhari. The deceased, identified as Ongthepru Marma, was a retired member of the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), now reorganised as the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). He resided in the Fenirkul area, a quiet […]