Popular Bangladeshi musician SI Tutul has launched a poignant artistic initiative dedicated to safeguarding the memory and musical legacy of late rock icon Ayub Bachchu. Tutul has officially unveiled a four-member outfit titled ‘AB King’, a moniker that directly expresses his reverence and affection for his late mentor. The bond between SI Tutul and Ayub […]

A 22-year-old street vendor died from electrocution on Saturday evening after attempting to sever a live electrical cable using his teeth during an alleged theft in the capital’s Dhanmondi area. The victim, identified as Md Russel, was discovered unconscious outside a residential property in Madhubazar around 7:00 pm on 29 August. Local residents who witnessed […]

Violent clashes over leadership appointments to the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in Noakhali Sadar erupted on Saturday afternoon, leaving at least ten political activists injured. Confrontations broke out between two opposing factions of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) student wing across Ashwadia Union, turning busy thoroughfares into chaotic battlegrounds and bringing regional traffic to a […]

Sanitation workers operating across the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) face escalating violence as armed criminal groups attempt to forcibly seize control of the lucrative municipal waste management sector. Armed gangs carrying weapons have been observed patrolling neighborhood alleyways, threatening municipal cleaners, and damaging collection vehicles. Consequently, door-to-door waste collection across at least five DNCC […]

Public life across Bangladesh has been plunged into severe distress as an unrelenting late-summer heatwave collides with a rapidly deteriorating energy supply chain. A crippling combination of diminishing natural gas reserves, sharp output reductions at primary coal-fired power stations, and an acute deficit of liquid fuels pushed the national electricity deficit past 3,500 megawatts (MW) […]

A senior local leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) youth wing, Juba Dal, has died in Chittagong following a physical altercation triggered by a feud over illegal street vending. The fatal dispute occurred when the victim challenged the unauthorised positioning of mobile rickshaw-van stalls along a heavily congested thoroughfare in the city’s Chandgaon district. […]

A prominent Punjabi social media creator, Manjeet Kaur, has died at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh following an eight-week battle against catastrophic burn injuries. The young woman succumbed to her wounds on 26 August after being abducted, tied to a tree in a secluded woodland, and set alight. Her […]

A grim sequence of events unfolded across Gazipur district on Saturday, 29 August, as police officers recovered the bodies of four individuals, including a young child and a teenager, following a series of unconnected incidents spanning rural disputes, drownings, mystery deaths, and railway hazards. The most violent occurrence took place in Kapasia sub-district, where an […]

In a swift, intelligence-led operation, police officers in Chittagong intercepted a flash procession planned by political activists on Friday afternoon. Law enforcement officers detained 14 individuals affiliated with the Bangladesh Awami League and its affiliate wings, the Jubo League and Chhatra League, as they assembled near the strategic Muradpur No. 1 Railgate area under the […]