Bangladesh’s ongoing natural gas deficit is hitting almost every major sector of the economy, forcing manufacturing plants to scale back production, aggravating power cuts, and leaving motorists waiting in long queues at compressed natural gas (CNG) stations. While official projections suggest at least two years will be needed to stabilise energy supplies, falling domestic gas […]

Bangladesh is preparing to pay 35 to 37 per cent more than its current regasification tariffs to a Chinese state-owned firm for a proposed third Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU). Although the government’s official negotiation committee admitted it could not determine how much of the premium is genuinely justified, it has nevertheless recommended moving […]

Police have recovered the partially decomposed bodies of a man, his wife, and their newborn baby from a locked room in Ashulia, near Dhaka. The grim discovery took place early on Saturday, 5 September, on the first floor of a four-storey rented building owned by Haji Hazrat Ali in the Middle Jamgara area. Upon entering […]

A police constable serving in the Chapainawabganj District Police force faces serious allegations of snatching 40 bhori of gold, valued at nearly ten million taka, under the guise of an official law enforcement operation. Following the incident, the accused officer proceeded on a month-long leave to his village home in Debipur, located in Durgapur upazila […]

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel intercepted a major contraband consignment at the Naikhongchhari border in Bandarban, recovering 50,070 Burmese Yaba tablets ingeniously concealed inside the fuel cylinder of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw. The successful operation unfolded at approximately 4:30 pm on Friday, 4 September, when troops from the 11 BGB Battalion deployed at the Adarshagram security […]

Police in Madan, Netrokona, intercepted two hand-trolleys carrying 100 sacks of government-allocated rice intended for low-income families, foiling an attempt to smuggle the commodity onto the black market. The seizure occurred at around 11:00 am on Friday, 4 September, near Rudrashree Government Primary School along the Madan-Tiyashree road. Officers impounded the vehicles and arrested both […]

Police in Rupganj, Narayanganj, have arrested four members of an armed gang following violent clashes and open displays of firearms stemming from turf wars between rival drug syndicates. The suspects were apprehended on Friday evening, 4 September, during a targeted law enforcement raid in the Tarabo Bazar area. Officers recovered a foreign-made pistol loaded with […]