A Jubo Dal leader has been arrested with a locally made firearm and other locally made weapons in Mirsharai, Chattogram, by the Detective Branch (DB) of police. The arrested man, identified as Naushad Alam, 28, is the joint convener of the Jubo Dal committee in Shaherkhali Union, under Mirsharai Upazila. Police arrested him at around […]

A 45-year-old man has been arrested with 955 yaba tablets in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur district, following an operation by Special Response Battalion-13 (SRB-13). The arrested man, identified as Md Mozammel Haque, was detained on 2 November after members of an SRB-13 operational team recovered the narcotics from the fold of his lungyi (traditional lower […]

A police sub-inspector died after shooting himself in the head with his officially issued service pistol at a police outpost in Ashuganj, Brahmanbaria, on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Jahangir Alam Talukdar, 52, who was assigned to a police outpost responsible for providing security at a fertiliser factory in Ashuganj. He was originally […]

A traditional healer has been arrested in Kalapara, Patuakhali, over allegations that he sexually exploited a teenage girl under the pretext of spiritual healing, recorded intimate videos of her and later threatened to circulate the footage on social media. The accused, identified as Taizul Islam Musa, was detained by members of the Special Response Battalion […]

Garment workers staged demonstrations and blocked the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Hemayetpur, Savar, on Wednesday, demanding that their minimum monthly wages and allowances be raised to Tk 30,000. The protest brought traffic on both sides of the busy highway to a standstill, causing long tailbacks and considerable disruption for passengers and transport operators. The demonstrations began […]

A 21-year-old garment worker injured during a labour protest over wage increases in Gazipur has died, prompting fresh concern over security in the industrial district. More than 50 garment factories have announced temporary closures amid continuing labour unrest and fears of further disruption. The worker, Toufiq Sheikh, died on Tuesday while receiving treatment at Shin […]

Authorities have stepped up security across the industrial areas of Gazipur, deploying 25 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), the Special Reserve Battalion (SRB) and Ansar personnel alongside police to maintain law and order amid continuing labour unrest. The deployment was confirmed on Wednesday morning by Md Arif Hossain, Assistant Commissioner of the Media and […]

Police have recovered the body of Shyamal Chandra Das, a 52-year-old employee of Nestlé Distribution Company, three days after he went missing in Raipura, Narsingdi. A boatman has been accused of handing him over to a gang of robbers in exchange for Tk 10,000. The gang allegedly beat him, stole more than Tk 100,000 in […]

Four people, including two women, were killed when a passenger bus collided head-on with a battery-powered rickshaw in the Mirpur Beribadh area of the capital on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred at around 7.30am on 4 November in Nawab-er-Bagh, within the jurisdiction of Shah Ali Police Station in Dhaka. The victims comprised two men and […]