Police in Bogura have arrested Shapla Begum, a notorious drug dealer named in 16 criminal cases, during a raid on Monday morning. Shapla, 45, is the adoptive mother of Siam Shuvo, officially recognised as the first martyr of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in Bogura following his death during the July 2024 mass uprising. Acting on […]

Mohammad Shahadat Nabi, a member of the Awami League’s central relief and rehabilitation sub-committee, attended his father’s funeral prayers in Chandanaish, Chattogram, while wearing handcuffs after securing short-term release on parole from prison. The funeral service was held on Monday afternoon, 17 August, at a local mosque within Chandanaish Municipality. Escorted by a police contingent […]

Police have secured several cocktail-like objects found inside an abandoned shopping bag at the busy Bata Signal intersection on Elephant Road under New Market Police Station in the capital. The recovery occurred around 10:00 pm on Monday, 17 August, along the roadside leading from Bata Signal towards New Market. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a group of […]

Internal rifts within the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Lalmonirhat have burst into the open after a faction of leaders from the Aditmari Upazila unit and its associate bodies held a press conference accusing their local Member of Parliament, Rokon Uddin Babul, of financial irregularities, breaches of party discipline, and collusion with political rivals. The […]