A local student leader remains missing in the Padma River near Bheramara, Kushtia, after a bulk carrier vessel carrying a pleasure trip party collided with a pillar of the historic Hardinge Bridge. As of 12:45 pm on Saturday 12 September, search and rescue operations have failed to locate Rakibuzzaman Rocky, the president of the Shailkupa […]

A 19-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a road crash while reportedly taking part in a high-speed race with fellow bikers on the Dhaka-Bhanga Expressway in Madaripur. His friends allegedly fled the scene after seeing him lying injured, leaving him behind until highway police arrived. The accident occurred around noon on Friday, 11 September, on the […]

In a harrowing incident reflecting the devastating toll of substance abuse on families, two brothers allegedly set fire to their own family home in Shariatpur’s Naria upazila after their parents refused to give them money for drugs and gambling. The blaze occurred on Friday evening, 11 September, in the Sabujbagh neighbourhood under Gharisar union, reducing […]

A court in Cumilla’s Brahmanpara upazila has sentenced seven individuals to varying terms of rigorous imprisonment for consuming illicit drugs in public. In addition to prison sentences, each offender was fined 100 taka, with an additional day of simple imprisonment mandated in default of payment. The convictions followed a day-long anti-narcotics operation conducted across several […]

Police in Madhupur, Tangail, seized over 4,000 Yaba tablets during a raid on the residence of a local businessman on Friday evening, 11 September. The operation took place in the Tekipara area under Madhupur municipality, though the primary suspect, Hafiz Uddin, managed to abscond when local residents confronted him prior to the arrival of law […]

Law enforcement agencies have detained 63 foreign nationals following a joint late-night raid on a digital fraud syndicate operating out of an upscale residential neighbourhood in Chattogram. Officers from the Counter Terrorism Unit and local police targeted the eight-storey building in the Khulshi area late on Thursday night, uncovering an international network implicated in cyber […]

Police have recovered the partially decomposed body of a 47-year-old businessman buried under soil and sand in Old Dhaka, three days after his family reported him missing. The deceased, Sheikh Wasim, locally known as Roni, was unearthed early on Friday morning from a space adjacent to an imitation jewellery factory on BC Das Street, Lalbagh. […]