Bangladesh plans to purchase 14 Boeing aircraft and lease additional planes as part of an effort to strengthen the country’s aviation capacity, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister M. Rashiduzzaman Millat has said. Speaking at a coordination meeting of the Mymensingh district administration on Monday, the minister said the decision followed a request from US President […]

A 21-year-old woman has reportedly been subjected to a horrific gang-rape at a restaurant in the Jashore Sadar upazila, orchestrated after she was allegedly drugged with a spiked beverage by a local political figure. The ordeal has since sparked intense local outrage, compounded by grave allegations of intimidation, forced hospital discharge, and a sluggish police […]

Bangladesh has recorded four more deaths from dengue in the past 24 hours, while 1,163 new cases were reported — the highest number of daily infections recorded so far this year. The latest figures were released on Monday (31 August) by the Directorate General of Health Services’ Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room in […]

Local authorities in Tangail have arrested a religious school teacher following serious allegations of sexually abusing multiple children under his care. Riyazul Islam, who taught at the Bhayeta Hafizia Madrasa situated in the Magra Union of Tangail Sadar Upazila, was taken into custody by police and subsequently produced before the court. The incident came to […]

A passenger bus lost control and overturned on the slope of the Padma Bridge in Munshiganj’s Louhajang upazila on Monday afternoon, leaving eight people seriously injured and briefly disrupting traffic on the vital transit corridor. The accident occurred at approximately 13:37 in the Mawa area. According to local emergency reports, the Dhaka-bound vehicle had originated […]

A daytime heist unfolded in the capital’s Dhanmondi area on Monday afternoon, when a citizen was robbed of 3.9 million Taka shortly after withdrawing the cash from a bank. Quick-thinking bystanders managed to intervene, apprehending one of the suspects at gunpoint and paving the way for a swift police crackdown. The incident occurred around midday […]

Rising global fertilizer costs and local distribution bottlenecks threaten to reduce rice yields during critical agricultural seasons in Bangladesh, potentially driving 1.4 million people into poverty if the cost of staple rice increases by just 10 percent, according to a recent World Bank assessment. The warning underscores the delicate balance sustaining the country’s food security. […]

Bangladesh’s worsening fuel shortage is emerging as a major risk to industrial activity, business confidence and broader economic growth, with factories across the country reportedly losing around Tk 2,387 crore in production every day. The impact is no longer confined to large industrial plants. Pharmaceutical manufacturers, textile and dyeing units, ceramic producers, sugar refineries, small […]