A 35-year-old man was arrested and remanded in custody after allegedly assaulting a 19-year-old woman under the pretext of helping her reach her husband in Bijoynagar upazila, Brahmanbaria. Local residents intercepted the suspect, Jasim Mia, as he attempted to abandon the victim along the highway late on Monday night, handed him over to the police, […]

Police in Madarganj have arrested five men, including a local opposition politician, in connection with a series of electrical transformer thefts from the rural electricity network. The suspects were remanded in judicial custody by a court on Tuesday, 15 September, following overnight raids across various parts of the upazila in Jamalpur district. Officers executed the […]

In a notable political boycott, leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Sylhet, alongside several party Members of Parliament, refrained from attending a civic reception organised by the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) in honour of President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. The event was held during his maiden one-day official visit to the holy city […]

A 25-year-old fish vendor was hacked to death by members of a juvenile gang while getting a haircut inside a barber shop in Keraniganj. Family members and eyewitnesses claimed that the brutal murder stemmed from a feud over extortion demands and setting up a makeshift pavement shop in the nearby Mohammadpur area. The horrific incident […]

A notorious serial killer who made a profession of murdering easy-bike drivers to snatch their battery-powered auto-rickshaws has been apprehended by the Detective Branch (DB) of police in Cumilla. The suspect, 25-year-old Abdul Wadud Manik, was arrested after detectives successfully unravelled two recent homicide cases across Nangalkot and Monohargonj upazilas. Additional Superintendent of Police Lutfur […]