A Dhaka court has rejected a petition seeking to initiate a case against 27 people, including former interim government Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus and former Law Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul, over alleged vandalism and arson at the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi 32. The petition was dismissed on the grounds that there […]

Police in Gopalpur sub-district, Tangail, have arrested a acting headmaster of a government primary school following an anti-narcotics operation that yielded ten Yaba pills. The suspect, thirty-five-year-old Rezaul Karim (also known as Reza Fakir), was apprehended on Wednesday night in the Char Shimla area under Nagda Shimla Union. Rezaul Karim serves as the acting headmaster […]

Three more children have died from suspected measles symptoms across the country in the past twenty-four hours, while 1,072 new infections—comprising both symptomatic and laboratory-confirmed cases—were logged during the same period. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) released these latest figures in a press bulletin on Thursday, 20 August, highlighting the persistent public health […]

Police in Gangachhara sub-district, Rangpur, have arrested a young man named Leon for allegedly impersonating an officer of the National Security Intelligence (NSI), defrauding a college student’s family of 1.05 million BDT, and subjecting the young woman to sexual assault. The victim’s father lodged a formal case at Gangachhara Model Station on Wednesday, naming Leon […]