Police in Dhaka have detained fifty-three individuals following coordinated raids on two separate spa establishments located in the upscale Gulshan district of the capital. The operation underscores ongoing efforts by law enforcement to crack down on unauthorised commercial establishments engaging in illicit activities. The enforcement operations were executed on Wednesday night by officers belonging to […]

A young scholar from Patuakhali has brought immense pride to Bangladesh by securing first place at the prestigious 46th King Abdulaziz International Quran Competition held in the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The extraordinary achievement of Hafez Nur Uddin Zakaria, a native of Bauphal Upazila, sent waves of jubilation through his home village on […]

A court in Bogura has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death for raping his teenage daughter in Sherpur upazila. The court also ordered him to pay a fine of Tk 200,000. The verdict was delivered at around 10.30am on Thursday, 20 August, by Maruf Hossain, judge of the Bogura Children and Women Repression Prevention Tribunal […]

Malnourished children face a dramatically heightened vulnerability to measles, according to a landmark study revealing that sixty-five per cent of young patients hospitalised with the virus suffer from moderate to severe malnutrition. Conducted jointly by the Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), the research underscores a […]

The Forest Department has initiated two separate legal cases against sixty-two individuals, including political figures and local activists, for the illegal felling, theft, and trading of timber from protected forest zones. The crackdown targets illicit activities within the Satchari National Park and the Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary. The initial case focuses specifically on Satchari National Park, […]