Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested 523 individuals and registered 40 cases following an extensive 24-hour law enforcement drive across the capital. The coordinated operation, conducted across all major administrative divisions of the metropolis, targeted narcotics trafficking, street crime, and ongoing criminal activities as part of the force’s heightened security measures. Deputy Commissioner of Police […]

A Bangladeshi national was injured on Saturday morning after being shot by India’s Border Guard Force (BSF) near the Jamalpur border in the Daulatpur sub-district of Kushtia. The incident took place around 9:30 am roughly 300 yards inside Indian territory, directly opposite the area overseen by the Jamalpur Border Outpost (BOP). In response to the […]

Police in Cumilla have arrested an auto-rickshaw driver in connection with the rape and murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl whose body was recovered from a paddy field in the Lalmai area on Thursday morning. The victim, a seventh-grade student, was returning home on the night of 8 October after disembarking from a bus at the […]

A quiet Saturday morning ended in devastating tragedy in northern Bangladesh after a passenger bus ran over two women standing by the roadside, killing them instantly. The lethal accident occurred at approximately 6:00 am on 10 October in the Nilakhia Thakurpara area of Bakshiganj Upazila, situated within the Jamalpur district. The deceased have been identified […]

Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Roton, a former general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League, has died at a hospital in Kolkata, India, after battling lung cancer for more than two years. He passed away at around 7am on Saturday, 10 October, while receiving treatment. Roton’s death was announced by Mohammad Aminul Islam, the Awami League’s secretary for […]

The Department of Youth Development has suspended a recruitment examination for Assistant Upazila Youth Development Officer after allegations of a possible question paper leak emerged ahead of the test. The decision was taken on Saturday after claims began circulating on social media the night before the examination. The allegations surfaced just hours before candidates were […]