Joint forces have detained 344 people during coordinated raids in four areas of Dhaka as part of efforts to curb drug trafficking, extortion, violent crime and the activities of juvenile gangs. The four-hour operation began at 9pm on Tuesday, 13 October, in Mohammadpur, Pallabi, Adabor and Gandaria. During the raids, law enforcement personnel recovered a […]

A 20-year-old man has died following an attack linked to a longstanding boundary dispute in Kendua upazila of Netrokona, less than a week after returning to Bangladesh from Saudi Arabia. His father, Enamul Haque, 45, was also seriously injured in the incident and remains under medical treatment, with relatives describing his condition as critical. The […]

Police have recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified woman wrapped in a blanket from a wetland in Charmukundi, Matlab South upazila of Chandpur district. The body was discovered beneath a mass of water hyacinths on Tuesday morning after local residents noticed a strong foul smell while clearing the vegetation to prepare farmland for cultivation. […]

A 38-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her husband following a domestic dispute over an alleged extramarital relationship and financial difficulties in Hamti village, Madhabdi, in Narsingdi on Tuesday morning. The accused, identified as Jasim Uddin, has reportedly been absconding since the incident. The victim, Rehana Begum, died after allegedly being struck on the head […]

A court in Sunamganj has sentenced Jitesh Chandra Gop to death for murdering Shahnaz Parvin Jyotsna, the wife of an expatriate, inside a pharmacy in Jagannathpur and cutting her body into six pieces. He has also been fined Tk 100,000. In a separate sentence for attempting to conceal the body, the court awarded him seven […]

A Dhaka court has sentenced former Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) chairman Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury and seven others to 14 years in prison in a corruption case involving irregularities in plot allocations in the Purbachal residential project. The court also fined each of the eight convicts Tk 1 million and ordered the cancellation of two plots […]

At least five students of the University of Dhaka were injured after a speeding private car struck them near the gate adjacent to the Faculty of Business Studies (FBS) and Mall Chattar on Tuesday morning. The accident occurred at around 11.20 am on 13 October. The injured students are from the 2025–26 academic session of […]

A fire at Mansur Khan Plaza Market in Chawkbazar, Old Dhaka, has destroyed goods stored in seven to eight warehouses, with the sixth floor suffering the heaviest damage. The warehouses contained umbrellas, cosmetics, attar and various other products. The full extent of the financial losses has yet to be determined. Four Fire Service personnel also […]