Three people, including two sisters, were killed and three others seriously injured after a truck collided head-on with a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw on the Cox’s Bazar–Teknaf Highway in Bangladesh’s Ramu upazila. The fatal crash occurred on Monday afternoon in the School Pahar area of Khuniapalong Union, prompting an immediate rescue operation and a police investigation. According […]

A police officer was found dead in a pond beside his in-laws’ home in Paikandi village of Gopalganj Sadar upazila on Monday morning, prompting an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. Police have taken his wife and father-in-law into custody for questioning. The deceased was identified as Mahmudul Islam, 38, a resident of Bijoypasha […]

Environmental, Forest and Climate Change Minister Sheikh Faridul Islam has stressed the need to raise public awareness and strictly enforce existing laws to curb the use of banned polythene bags and reduce environmental pollution. He made the remarks on Monday (27 July) while taking part in an awareness campaign against polythene during a visit to […]

The government has reinstated the licence of Ad-Din Medical College Hospital in Moghbazar, Dhaka, which had been temporarily suspended following the deaths of six newborn babies. The hospital has been allowed to resume its operations, but the reinstatement comes with three conditions. Authorities have warned that further action could be taken if the conditions are […]

Law enforcement agencies in Rajbari and Faridpur have detained three individuals, including a husband and wife, in separate anti-narcotics drives and recovered hundreds of illicit Yaba tablets from their possession. In Rajbari, the District Detective Branch (DB) of police conducted a targeted raid in the Pangsha upazila, resulting in the arrest of a local man […]

A Faridpur court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife, Rima Biswas, allegedly after her family failed to meet further dowry demands. The court also fined the convict Tk 300,000 and ordered that the money, once recovered, be handed over to the victim’s family. The verdict was delivered on […]