Police have formally applied for a seven-day remand to interrogate Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami MP Gazi Nazrul Islam and his first wife, Maksuda Begum, following the death of his second wife at a government residence in Dhaka. The investigative officer, Sub-Inspector Shamsuddoha Sarkar of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, submitted the remand prayer before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates’ […]

Persistent incoming calls to a primary suspect’s mobile phone have enabled police to unravel the circumstances surrounding the murder of Ishayat Shahriar Apratim, the 13-year-old only child of Dr Nahida Begum, an associate professor in the Bengali Department at Comilla University. Investigators suspect a fatal combination of an unpaid 5,000 taka loan and a desire […]

A devastating chain of traffic accidents in Bogura has claimed the lives of three individuals and left six others injured, casting a pall of sorrow over a grieving family and highlighting persistent road safety hazards across regional transport corridors. The tragedy unfolded in two sequential crashes on Monday morning within Bogura Sadar upazila. The initial […]

The intellectual landscape of Bengali literature remains profoundly shaped by Prabodh Chandra Sen, a master metrist, literary historian, and Rabindranath Tagore scholar whose rigorous analytical mind transformed the study of Bengali verse. Through a lifetime dedicated to academic excellence, Sen shifted the perception of metre (chhanda) from a rigid mechanical formula into a vital, living […]

A harrowing incident unfolded in the port city of Chittagong on Saturday night when an addicted father allegedly abducted his 20-month-old daughter to sell her to fund his substance abuse. The child was successfully reunited with her mother following a swift operation by the police, triggered by a desperate plea to the national emergency helpline […]

A local political figure in Shahrasti, Chandpur, has sparked widespread public outcry following allegations that he absconded with the wife of a foreign expatriate. Sheikh Rahmat Ullah, the convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) for Shahrasti Municipality, stands accused of fleeing the area alongside Morium Begum, the wife of Ibrahim Khalil, a migrant worker […]

The Government of Bangladesh has formally published the gazette notification for the National Pay Scale 2026, introducing substantial increases in basic salaries ranging between 100 and 142 per cent across 20 distinct grades. Backdated to take effect from 1 July 2026, the updated compensation framework modernises the pay structure for hundreds of thousands of civil […]

Tragedy struck Tangail on Sunday afternoon when unknown assailants brutally hacked a former Union Parishad member to death in broad daylight. The victim, fifty-year-old Surman Reza, was attacked inside an abandoned petrol station in the Darun area of Gharinda Union, situated alongside the busy Dhaka–Tangail–Jamuna Bridge Highway. Surman Reza was the son of Hanif Reza, […]