Bangladesh’s elite law enforcement agency, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), has officially ceased operations under its original identity and commenced functioning as the Special Response Battalion (SRB). Starting Wednesday, 16 September, the restructured unit under the Bangladesh Police initiated its formal duties, retaining the visual framework of its original insignia whilst updating the text to […]

A scheduled 14-hour gas outage extended into a grueling 26-hour blackout for residents and businesses across Brahmanbaria, leaving more than 23,000 domestic and commercial customers without supply. The disruption, initially slated to end on Tuesday night, dragged on until Wednesday morning, crippling daily routines and sparking widespread anger throughout Brahmanbaria town, Sadar, and Sarail upazilas. […]

Police in Natore have launched an investigation following the unexplained death of a 16-year-old residential student inside a local madrasa in the Gurudaspur upazila of the district. The deceased, identified as Khadija Khatun, was a student at the Hazrat Rabeya Bosri (R.) Mohila Hafezia Madrasa, located in the Shampur Wapda Bazar area under Nazirpur Union. […]

Police in Jhenaidah have apprehended a 45-year-old man on charges of forcibly raping a woman in the Maheshpur upazila. The suspect, identified as Anisur Rahman, son of the late Sonai Mondal, hails from Gokulnagar village within the same upazila. He was taken into custody on Wednesday, 16 September, following a swift police operation. According to […]

Bangladesh continues to battle a worsening dengue fever crisis as seven more fatalities were reported across the country within a 24-hour period, according to the latest figures released on Tuesday, 15 September, by the Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The latest deaths bring the national […]

Police in Sonargaon, Narayanganj, have launched a homicide investigation after recovering the bound and sacked body of a local scrap metal merchant from a marshland behind a pharmaceutical facility in Kanchpur. The victim, identified as Ayub Hossain, was the son of Altaf Hossain, a resident of Kanchpur Uttarpara. Hossain operated a scrap trading business in […]

Two people were killed and two others injured after a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw, a pickup and a private car collided on the Chandpur–Cumilla highway in Chandpur Sadar upazila on Tuesday afternoon. The accident occurred in the Mandari area near Mahamaya, according to local residents and police. The collision involved three vehicles and left the auto-rickshaw severely […]

Jhenaidah 250-Bed General Hospital, the main healthcare facility for more than two million people, is struggling to cope with a persistent shortage of doctors, nurses and support staff. Although the hospital is officially designed to accommodate 250 inpatients, more than 400 patients are regularly admitted, placing considerable pressure on its limited workforce and facilities. The […]

A 26-year-old man has died in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district after allegedly being tied to an electricity pole and repeatedly beaten by a group of people who suspected him of theft. The incident took place on Tuesday morning at the home of Mawlana Kefayet Ullah in Miyazir Para, in the East Fakiraghona area of Boromaheshkhali […]