A 13-year-old girl has allegedly been raped by her stepfather in Patgram, Lalmonirhat, prompting her mother to file a case with the Patgram police station. The accused, identified as Selim Hossain, has reportedly gone into hiding following the incident. According to the police and the case statement, the incident allegedly took place at around 10pm […]

A former Kurigram district Awami League leader was arrested after allegedly attempting to evade police by escaping from the roof of his home, sustaining injuries in the process. Minhazul Islam Ayub, a former deputy publicity secretary of the Kurigram district Awami League and former president of the district Chhatra League, was injured while trying to […]

A BNP leader in Netrokona’s Kendua upazila has been expelled from the party after a schoolgirl accused him of repeatedly raping her and threatening to circulate recordings of the alleged abuse on social media. Rafiqul Islam Bhuiyan Bakul, who was named as the prime accused in a case filed over the allegations, has been relieved […]

A retired police officer was allegedly tied up and beaten with an iron rod after a group of masked, armed men broke into a local elected representative’s home in Patiya, Chattogram, and stole cash and gold jewellery. The incident took place at around 1am on Thursday in Chakrashala village of Kachuai Union, Patiya upazila. The […]

Police in Chattogram have arrested Mobarak, a man described by law enforcement as a notorious criminal operating in the Fatikchhari and Raozan areas, following an overnight raid in which he allegedly opened fire on officers using a firearm that had previously been looted from a police station. According to police, Mobarak is also known as […]

A controversial waste-to-power project at Aminbagh in Dhaka is returning to the spotlight as final agreements approach. Originally formulated under the previous Awami League administration in December 2021, the initiative involved a deal with the state-owned China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) to establish a 42.5-megawatt plant. At that time, the tariff was fixed at approximately […]

Residents of Barishal city are enduring a severe power crisis, facing daily outages that leave them without electricity for up to eleven hours a day. Frequent disruptions have severely dislocated routine life, hitting children, the elderly, and students the hardest. The intense load shedding began at the start of July, sweeping across various neighbourhoods. Power […]