Banned Awami League leader Golam Hasnain Russell was granted a four-hour temporary parole release on Friday, 14 August, allowing him to attend his mother’s funeral under heavy police escort in Bhangura, Pabna. Russell, the general secretary of the Bhangura Upazila Awami League, previously served as an MP for the Pabna-3 constituency, upazila chairman, and local […]

Fifty-three leaders and activists affiliated with the Awami League and its associate bodies were detained by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) during a targeted operation in the capital’s Bashundhara Residential Area on Thursday night. The raid was carried out at approximately 9:05 pm on 13 August by officers from Vatara Police Station. Security forces stormed […]

A longstanding dispute over the ownership of a local graveyard and waqf estate escalated into violent clashes between the residents of two neighboring villages in Netrokona’s Kalmakanda upazila, leaving at least 56 people injured. The violent confrontation broke out on Friday morning, 14 August, in the Amgora area under Rongchhati Union. Police units deployed swiftly […]

A debilitating shortage of natural gas has brought Bangladesh’s primary manufacturing sectors to a virtual standstill, imperilling export orders and raising immediate concerns over the stability of local consumer goods markets. The deficit, which has worsened over three consecutive weeks, has hit heavy manufacturing, textile processing, and basic food processing facilities hard, with pipeline pressure […]

An acute CNG shortage in Chittagong reached boiling point early on Friday, 14 August, as hundreds of CNG-powered auto-rickshaw drivers took to the streets in protest, throwing the port city’s transport network into utter disarray. Exasperated by multi-day queues outside refuelling stations across the city, disgruntled cabbies set up blockades around the bustling Sholashahar area […]

The Chief Justice of Bangladesh has reassigned the death reference and appeal hearings for the widely discussed child rape and murder case of young Ramisa to a special High Court bench. The case has been placed at item number 22 on the cause list for Sunday, 16 August, before the dual High Court bench comprising […]