In a harrowing incident reflecting the devastating toll of substance abuse on families, two brothers allegedly set fire to their own family home in Shariatpur’s Naria upazila after their parents refused to give them money for drugs and gambling. The blaze occurred on Friday evening, 11 September, in the Sabujbagh neighbourhood under Gharisar union, reducing […]

A court in Cumilla’s Brahmanpara upazila has sentenced seven individuals to varying terms of rigorous imprisonment for consuming illicit drugs in public. In addition to prison sentences, each offender was fined 100 taka, with an additional day of simple imprisonment mandated in default of payment. The convictions followed a day-long anti-narcotics operation conducted across several […]

Police in Madhupur, Tangail, seized over 4,000 Yaba tablets during a raid on the residence of a local businessman on Friday evening, 11 September. The operation took place in the Tekipara area under Madhupur municipality, though the primary suspect, Hafiz Uddin, managed to abscond when local residents confronted him prior to the arrival of law […]

Law enforcement agencies have detained 63 foreign nationals following a joint late-night raid on a digital fraud syndicate operating out of an upscale residential neighbourhood in Chattogram. Officers from the Counter Terrorism Unit and local police targeted the eight-storey building in the Khulshi area late on Thursday night, uncovering an international network implicated in cyber […]

Police have recovered the partially decomposed body of a 47-year-old businessman buried under soil and sand in Old Dhaka, three days after his family reported him missing. The deceased, Sheikh Wasim, locally known as Roni, was unearthed early on Friday morning from a space adjacent to an imitation jewellery factory on BC Das Street, Lalbagh. […]

A severe natural gas deficit across the capital has forced commercial drivers and private motorists to endure painstaking queues stretching outside compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations. Low pressure at retail pumps has severely disrupted daily transport operations, eroding the income of commercial drivers and cascading into a broader energy squeeze affecting national electricity generation. […]

A cement-laden lorry struck the official vehicle of Mir Shahe Alam, State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives, in Shibganj Upazila of Bogura. Although one of the doors of the vehicle sustained partial damage during the collision, the state minister was not inside the car at the time of the incident, and no […]

A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a three-wheeler carrying bananas has left one man dead and at least 20 others injured in Kushtia. The fatal crash occurred at approximately 3:00 pm on Friday, 11 September, along the Kushtia-Meherpur highway, in an area between Katlamari and Khalisakundi under Daulatpur Upazila. The deceased has been […]