Police in Gopalganj have launched a manhunt for a local grocery shopkeeper and lorry driver accused of attempting to rape two young sisters in Kashiani upazila. The suspect, identified as Jasim Munshi, fled the scene immediately after neighbours intervened, prompting law enforcement agencies to carry out targeted raids to bring him into custody. The incident […]

A local leader of the Awami Jubo League has died after being ambushed and hacked with sharp weapons by unidentified assailants in Bhairab, Kishoreganj district. The victim, identified as Mohammad Alamin Saikat, served as the general secretary of the Bhairab Municipal Jubo League. He succumbed to severe haemorrhaging shortly after being transported in a critical […]

Police in Sreemangal, under Moulvibazar district, have arrested a madrasa teacher on charges of brutally torturing and assaulting a nine-year-old student under his supervision. The suspect, identified as Rakibul Hasan Miraj, was apprehended on Sunday afternoon from the Jamia Islamia Boys and Girls Madrasa, situated along the Sindurkhan Road area. Miraj, a resident of Sungair […]

A visiting delegation from the United States Embassy in Dhaka was forced to tour the July Museum at the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) using mobile phone flashlights after a sudden power outage plunged the building into darkness on Sunday. The incident occurred shortly after US officials concluded a formal bilateral discussion with student […]

The Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has announced a structured daily load-shedding schedule of five hours across its campus, citing an acute shortfall in national electricity supply. The decision follows a formal advisory issued by the Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC), alerting university authorities to unavoidable grid-level power rationing. The university administration […]

Police officers in Gazipur have recovered the body of a forty-two-year-old gold merchant whose throat was slit inside his jewellery shop in the Signboard-Bhushirmil area. The victim, identified as Abul Kalam Azad, was discovered on Sunday afternoon inside Sadia Jewellers after local traders and family members forced open the padlocked external shutter. The deceased was […]

Scores of activists from the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) mounted a coordinated show of strength along the Titas River in Brahmanbaria on Sunday, congregating by boat and staging an impromptu rally on the riverbank in defiance of local restrictions. The assembly attracted widespread attention across the region after photographs and video footage of the gathering […]

A cybercriminal collective operating under the moniker “Mudarax” has advertised the illicit sale of a massive database containing the curricula vitae (CVs) of at least six million Bangladeshi jobseekers on a dark web marketplace forum. The threat actors claim the vast repository of personal and professional records was exfiltrated directly from Bdjobs, the largest employment […]