A thirty-five-year-old scrap metal trader named Shamim Hossain was beaten to death in Bogura early Tuesday morning after being suspected of theft, sparking fierce protests and conflicting accounts from grieving relatives and local figures. The incident unfolded in the Nishindara Union Parishad area of Bogura Sadar Upazila. Shamim, a resident of the Choumuhani area under […]

The legal proceedings surrounding the corruption case over the construction of the Rana Plaza building took an unexpected turn on Tuesday, as a Dhaka court sent the high-profile matter back to the argument stage rather than delivering its anticipated verdict. Judge B. M. Tarikul Kabir of the Dhaka Divisional Special Judge’s Court issued the order […]

Police have recovered the hanging body of a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) soldier from a watchtower in the Jaintiapur upazila of Sylhet. The grim discovery was made on Tuesday morning, sending shockwaves through the local security camp and the soldier’s home district. The deceased was identified as 25-year-old Jamil Hasan Shish, son of Sheikh Fazlur […]

Two young motorcyclists lost their lives on Tuesday morning following a violent head-on collision on the Dinajpur-Gobindaganj regional highway in the Shialgara area of Gobindaganj upazila, Gaibandha. The victims were identified as 23-year-old Limon Mia, son of Nazrul Islam from Panchgachhi village, and 30-year-old Rubel Mia, son of Shahin Mia from Chandpara. Both men were […]

Five people, including a police officer, were injured after supporters of two factions of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) clashed during programmes marking the party’s founding anniversary in Shreenagar, Munshiganj. The incident took place at around 11.30am on Tuesday (1 September) in front of Zamzam Tower in Shreenagar upazila’s main market, according to police and […]

A mother-in-law and her son-in-law have been arrested in Narail’s Lohagara upazila after the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) allegedly recovered one kilogramme of cannabis and 101 yaba tablets from a house in the area. The two were arrested during an operation at a house in Panchuria village on Monday afternoon (31 August). They were […]

Bangladesh could face a serious telecommunications infrastructure challenge as demand for international bandwidth continues to rise rapidly while decisions on new submarine cable connections remain uncertain, industry stakeholders have warned. They said that unless additional capacity is brought into service in time, bandwidth shortages could become a major constraint on the country’s digital economy over […]