Police in the Bangladeshi capital have arrested Bidisha Ershad, former wife of the late President and Jatiya Party founder Hussain Muhammad Ershad. Officers executed a judicial arrest warrant during a targeted operation in Dhaka’s upscale Gulshan district on Tuesday evening, taking her into custody at around 8:30 pm. Dawood Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Gulshan Police Station, […]

A twenty-one-year-old man has been murdered in Tongi, Gazipur, after being enticed to the industrial zone with the false prospect of employment. Law enforcement agencies have detained the victim’s close acquaintance, thirty-year-old Mazharul Islam Mithu, over his alleged involvement in the abduction and killing. Following disclosures made by the suspect during police questioning, officers recovered […]

A deep sense of unease and bewilderment has gripped the Machhuapara neighbourhood of Rangpur following the grim discovery of four murdered members of the same household. While detectives moved swiftly to apprehend two local youths, stark contradictions between initial police statements and the formal post-mortem examination—alongside puzzling questions surrounding clothing, a deliberately severed electricity line, […]

A criminal case has been initiated against Md Arman Uddin, personal assistant to Chattogram-15 parliamentarian and Jamaat-e-Islami central working committee member Shahjahan Chowdhury, over accusations of demanding 2 million Taka in extortion, alongside commercial property occupation and looting. The legal petition was brought on Sunday before Chattogram Chief Judicial Magistrate Khadija Akhter by an expatriate […]

A pall of gloom descended over the capital’s academic circles on Monday morning after police recovered the body of Dhirendra Kumar Roy, a respected 71-year-old former teacher of Notre Dame College, from his family residence in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area. Law enforcement officials suspect that the veteran academic took his own life inside his apartment. The […]

Bangladesh is seeking to deepen its cross-border energy framework with India to bolster its domestic power transmission system and ensure long-term energy stability. Following high-level bilateral talks in New Delhi earlier this month, Bangladeshi Power Division Secretary Mirana Mahrukh outlined Dhaka’s intentions to expand electricity imports beyond the existing baseline of approximately 2,500 megawatts. During […]

Two young Bangladeshi developers have unveiled an anonymous civic-tech initiative, known as ‘GhushSite’, engineered to record informal financial demands and illicit facilitation fees across government departments. Anchored in rigorous data privacy, the open portal enables members of the public to log instances of extortion without completing user registrations, providing email addresses, or submitting telephone numbers. […]

A serving Assistant Sub-Inspector belonging to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has been taken into custody alongside an alleged accomplice following the seizure of 5,310 contraband methamphetamine tablets, known locally as yaba. The targeted operation unfolded during the early hours of Monday, executed by a specialist team from Dakshinkhan Police Station across multiple residential addresses in […]

A quiet residential enclave in Rangpur has been gripped by sorrow and disbelief following the brutal murder of four members of the same household. As neighbours in the Machhuapara locality attempt to comprehend the scale of the violence, an extraordinarily poignant detail has emerged surrounding a package addressed to one of the deceased, twenty-three-year-old Agami […]